Eight ways to better BI

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This articles has these 8 points:

1. Focus on Value during development - it doesn't have to be perfect!!!
2. Establish leadership and communications between business and IT - can your business find a 'hybrid' person - who has business skills and IT skills?
3. Provide ongoing measurement - BI wants (needs?) analytical data - quantitative stuff (like ROI)
4. Get agile - okay - we'd all like to be more agile - but this is referring to a methodology called "agile" - where users (i.e. 'the business') and IT works together very closely
5. Initiate dialogue - BI MUST have communication with the business side (IT needs to be part of the strategy!!)
6. Seek standards - it is generally good for an organization / company / enterprise to use the same tools - tool A for some departments and tool B for others might cause a mis-match (hey - an ERP system might help too!!!)
7. Keep an eye on innovation - what neat stuff is going on with the users in regards to analytics? Are some people using the data for some great results?
8. Don't forget support - a tool that isn't supported isn't going to get used. If something hangs up - who do you call?