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January 15, 2008
The BI Triumvirate - Technology, Process and People
With the advent of a new year, let me set some direction for my thoughts, which would be reflected in future posts on this blog in 2008.
To me, BI is about 3 things - Technology, Process, People. I consider these three as the holy triumvirate for successful implementation of Business Intelligence in any organization - Not only are the individual areas important by itself but the most important thing is the link between these 3 areas. Organizations that are serious about 'Analytics' should continuosly elevate their technology, process & people capability and more importantly strengthen the link between them - afterall, any business endeavor is only as good as its weakest link.
Theory of Constraints (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Constraints) does offer a perspective, which I feel is really useful for BI practitioners. I will explore more of this in my subsequent posts.
To summarize, my direction in 2008 for posts on this blog are:
1) Present readers with thoughts on Business Intelligence along Technology, Process and People dimensions
2) Provide a "Theory of Constraints" based view of BI with focus on strengthening the link between the 3 dimensions mentioned above.
Almost every interesting business area - Six Sigma, Balanced Scorecard, System Dynamics, Business Modeling, Enterprise Risk, Competitive Intelligence, etc. has its relationship with BI and we will see more of this in 2008.
Please do keep reading and share your thoughts as well.
Posted by Karthikeyan Sankaran at January 15, 2008 8:00 AM
