Profit Impact of Business Intelligence

Informationen zum Autor Steve Williams is the founder and CEO of DecisionPath Consulting. He specializes in helping clients formulate business-driven, technically-savvy strategies for leveraging business intelligence, analytics, and big data to improve profits. Steve blends general management experience and a general management MBA with nearly 30 years’ experience in the information systems field - the last fifteen of which have been spent in the business intelligence (BI) and analytics specialty. As a BI strategy consultant, Steve has had the privilege of working with successful companies in retail, distribution, manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, government, and electric power. His clients have included: • ArcBest • Heinens Fine Foods • Louisville Gas and Electric • Navy Federal Credit Union • Northwestern Mutual Life • Partners Federal Credit Union • Pinnacle Foods Group • Principal Financial Group • Toronto Hydro Electric System • United Natural Foods • U.S. Social Security Administration • Watsco While the industries and companies are different, there are many common challenges when it comes to leveraging BI, analytics, and big data to enhance profitability. Steve understands these challenges, and he provides proven methods for meeting them. In addition to his consulting work, Steve is also an active contributor to the field of business intelligence, analytics, and big data. He and Nancy Williams wrote The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence in 2006, and Steve has continued to write for magazines such as Strategic Finance, Business Intelligence Journal, and MWorld (The Journal of the American Management Association). In addition to widely-sharing his thinking about BI, analytics, and big data, Steve has also served as a judge since 2001 for the annual TDWI Best Practices in Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Competition. Prior to founding DecisionPath, Steve worked for twenty years in several specialized consulting companies where he developed expertise in program management, systems integration, software engineering, and management accounting. He holds an MBA in General Management from the Darden School at the University of Virginia and a B.S. in Business Management from the University of Maryland. Nancy Williams is Vice President of DecisionPath Consulting. With over 21 years of business and technical experience, she provides technical and strategic leadership on business intelligence as well as hands-on guidance for client engagements. Klappentext When Business Intelligence (BI) first came on the scene! it promised a compelling value proposition-leverage information assets to realize tangible! bottom-line results. BI vendors have responded to the allure of BI! offering tools and technologies designed to support increased customer intimacy! supply chain agility! improved responsiveness to market trends! competitive agility! and improved business performance. Despite the technical potential! experience shows that few companies have realized the promise of BI.The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence takes the reader where BI was meant to go. With the focus on BI from a business-not technical-standpoint! this book will help your company plan and execute BI initiatives that will improve profits. Steve Williams and Nancy Williams have taken the lessons learned from working with major companies in a range of industries and developed practical guidance on a range of topics that affect BI success. They explain their methods in easy-to-follow terms that both technical professionals and business-minded professionals alike can appreciate. They provide specific guidance in the form of cases and examples! including a comprehensive explanation of the BI Pathway! a groundbreaking new approach the authors use daily in their successful consulting work! all to help make BI a profitable part of your organization!...

List of contents

Chapter 1: The business value of business intelligence
Chapter 2: Identifying and prioritizing business intelligence -driven opportunities for your organization
Chapter 3: Business intelligence readiness
Chapter 4: Business-centric business intelligence development with the BI pathway method
Chapter 5: Leading and managing a business intelligence-driven profit improvement program
Chapter 6: Business intelligence in the broader information technology context
Chapter 7: Important ways business intelligence can drive profit improvement
Chapter 8: Common mistakes companies make on business intelligence initiatives
Chapter 9: A view over the horizon
A business intelligence glossary
A business intelligence
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors

Report

'The ideas in The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence were central to our deployment of business intelligence applications that allowed us to manage revenue delivery and reduce costs.
--Kevin McCaughey, Vice President - Strategic Planning, McCormick & Company Global Industrial Group

One performance management approach we are taking is to leverage business intelligence to better serve our customers and to optimize our cost structure in relation to the services our customers value most. We have used the strategies described in The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence to align our BI program with our critical success factors and to drive our BI development efforts.
--Terry Lillis, Chief Financial Officer - Retirement and Investor Services, The Principal Financial Group

This is a "must read" book for anyone who wants to achieve real business intelligence. It advances the discipline of BI by focusing on business value built upon a strong foundation of technology best practices.
--David L. Wells, Director of Education, TDWI: The Data Warehousing Institute

Nancy and Steve Williams understand the "business” in business intelligence. This book is a must for business leaders who require that their BI programs drive real business value.
--Barbara Wixom, PhD, Associate Professor, Director MS-MIT, University of Virginia - McIntire School of Commerce'

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Williams, Nancy (Vice President Williams, Steve Williams, Steve (Founder and Ceo of Decisionpath C Williams, Steve (Founder and CEO of DecisionPath Consulting Williams, Steve Williams Williams
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.01.2007
• EAN: 9780123724991
• ISBN: 978-0-12-372499-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Morgan Kaufmann
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries