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August 6, 2007
BI Task Force
I have seen some wise companies formulating a BI task force, comprised of people from IT, business, and senior leadership, whose main goal is to ensure the successful implementation and deployment of BI solution.
Short term thinking might see such BI task force as an extra, unnecessary overhead to the company, but long term thinking sees such task force as an essential ingredient to BI success, which will eventually reward the company handsomely.
SAS further enhances the importance of BI task force.
"Organizations with Business Intelligence Competency Centers (BICCs) exhibit a significantly higher commitment to information management best practices, which in turn leads to improved financial results. BICCs comprise cross-functional teams from IT and business and drive consistent BI deployments; ease BI management and implementation; support BI and performance management initiatives that span multiple departments; help standardize methodologies, definitions, processes, tools and technologies; and enhance BI skills." - SASCOM (third quarter 2007),
Many BI projects lose its initial passion and ambition because no one really takes the BI ownership until the end of the BI deployment. They often fail to realize that each BI implementation requires a constant effort in pushing the project forward while ensuring a smooth communication between IT and business.
BI task force can ease the process.
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Resources:
COGNOS BICC - http://www.cognos.com/solutions/projects/bicc/index.html
SAS BICC - http://www.sas.com/consult/bicc.html
Posted by William Cho at August 6, 2007 10:30 AM
