Yearly Archives: 2013

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  What CEO’s Want And Need To Know

  Your organization may already have lots of metrics and dashboards but do they really have the information a CEO needs and wants to know? CEO’s want to be able to get a complete picture of progress on initiatives, goals, and projects when ever they want NOT when you can provide the information. So stop publishing […]

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• #1 Reason for Overruning Project Costs

  Poor data or “lack of understanding the data” are cited as the #1 reasons for overrunning project costs. Check out the infographic for more info.

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  7 Facts About Data Quality [Infographic]

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• 6 Key Steps In Creating Metrics That Matter

  There are lots of whitepapers, presentations & blogs out on the Internet that tell you to create one metric over another metric.  It’s great to know about the variety of different metrics available but do you really need all of them? This presentation reduces the complexity to 6 key steps in creating actionable metrics that […]

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  Quit Focusing On Vanity Metrics

  You know how it goes, projects get put into queue, hours are logged, code is created, defects are logged, etc. There’s data being entered/changed in a variety of systems like PlanView, ClearQuest, QualityCenter, etc. Someone is requesting metrics so they can see what’s happened, what’s happening and what might happen. You try your best to […]

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  Business Intelligence Hottest Trends

  There has been a hot topic on LinkedIn about what the hottest trend is for Business Intelligence (BI). Some of the responses have been around dashboards, mobility, integration. From my point of view the hottest and important items not trends for BI to actually work are so you can make objective decisions are: Ability to […]

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  WAIT! Read This Before You Pick The Wrong BI Solution

  There is so much buzz going on around big data, dashboards, metrics, etc.. Companies are implementing BI solutions in-house or in the cloud. Some companies are selecting BI solutions just because of the brand name. Other companies are selecting BI solutions because they think they are getting something that will answer a specific question today. […]

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  STOP Wasting Money Due To Lack Of Analytics

  I read an article the other day written by Joe Curtis called “Firms ‘wasting money on data centres of lack of analytics’” Mr. Curtis was correct that firms are wasting money due to the lack of analytics but not just on data centers. Firms are wasting money on resources, software, hardware, and much more due […]

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  Don’t Cram and Jam

  There is so much data available and so many pretty charts that you can make but do you really need to see all of them? Do you really need to see all of them on the first page? Don’t cram and jam all of the charts on the same page. Below are some items to […]

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  The Top 3 Reasons To Implement A BI Dashboard

  Dashboards are evolving more and more everyday to provide organizations with a clearer view, which allows users to make fact based decisions. Below are the key reasons to implement a BI dashboard no matter how big or small your organization is: Collaboration. Dashboards allow everyone to view the same information at the same time allowing […]

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