No more shortcuts: Sound data quality strategy a must for BI success

Jan 22, 2015 by Lyndsay Wise in Midmarket Analytics

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In the past, companies might have gotten away with not building data quality efforts into business intelligence programs. That's less likely now.As business intelligence and analytics adoption expands within organizations, there's a natural push from business users to add more types of data from...

Secrets of Successful Data Governance

Jan 22, 2015 by Dan Power in Information Governance

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Now that we have talked about the role of organizational change and education, readiness assessment, developing a strategic roadmap, creating a business case, and designing the Data Governance initiative before trying to execute on it, it’s time to talk about the implementation process itself.At...

Analytics, Automation, Profit and Employment

Jan 22, 2015 by Barry Devlin in Information Architecture

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Why, oh why does the relationship between analytics, automation, profit and employment seem to elude so many people?A nicely rounded post by Scott Mongeau, “Manager-machine: analytics, artificial intelligence, and the uncertain future of management”, from last October came to my attention today...

24 Questions to Ask Before Buying a Dedicated OKRs Tool

Jan 21, 2015 by Ben Lamorte in Enterprise Goal Management

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Large organizations including Google and Sears have developed proprietary systems for defining and tracking OKRs for thousands of employees. But what if you’re not a F500 company? What if you don’t have the internal resources to develop an in-house OKRs solution?Most OKRs experts, including Kris...

How to Get Started with Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)

Jan 21, 2015 by Ben Lamorte in Enterprise Goal Management

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So you decide to launch OKRs at your company, well, at least for your team. After the initial excitement, you realize you're still not clear how to get started.  This article summarizes lessons learned based on several real-world interviews with business leaders currently rolling out OKRs at...