Stop Hating the Competition! Start Managing Performance with Corporate Performance Management and Business Intelligence Tools We have strong feelings about our competitors! We lose sleep thinking about how we can beat them. Sometimes, we admire them for coming up with … Continued
Corporate Performance Management helps you avoid surprises. In business, Sensitivity Analysis has nothing to do with you being sensitive to the feelings of others or visiting a therapist to discuss your inability to take criticism. In business, sensitivity analysis is … Continued
Module Overview – Impact and Sensitivity Analysis Betsy says: BI Sensitivity Analysis has nothing to do with you a) being sensitive to the feelings of others or b) visiting a therapist to discuss your inability to take criticism. BI sensitivity … Continued
My Friend Stan Uses ‘What If” Analysis to Stop Guessing and Start Achieving! Thanks to my colleagues for letting me use their BI problems as lessons. Here’s another lesson for my readers. My friend, Stan is CFO for a consumer … Continued
What If/Sensitivity Analysis Betsy says: My colleague, Stan got tired of playing guessing games and gambling his CFO career in the process. He asked a wise friend (me) what he should do and I recommended that he get himself a … Continued
With Cross-Tab OLAP Analytics, I’m (Almost) the Queen of the World! Last year I attended a business conference. You know the kind – they are designed to show you new ways to manage your business and to remind you that … Continued
A Balanced Scorecard Assures Your Team Will Win! If you’re a baseball fan, you probably think a Balanced Scorecard is one that puts the best team on the field and combines great hitting with great pitching. If you’re an IT … Continued
BI and CPM. Low TCO, Fast ROI. Acronyms Have Never Looked So Good! Call me old fashioned, but I remember a time when software developers assumed that the average user was not a technology geek. They designed programs that every … Continued
Today’s BI Forecast: Clear Visibility Have you noticed that meteorologists get the weather forecast wrong at least 50% of the time? In business, we do our own forecasting and, more times than not, we get it wrong. Businesses need forecasting … Continued
