Comments on: BI implementations are like icebergs http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/02/05/bi-implementations-are-like-icebergs/ Thoughts on the confluence of business, change and technology. Areas covered include business intelligence, cultural transformation, business and IT alignment, business and IT strategy, project execution and social media. Sun, 20 May 2012 04:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Peter Thomas http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/02/05/bi-implementations-are-like-icebergs/#comment-2702 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:03:21 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1255#comment-2702 Thanks for the comment Rob.

I’d have Data Quality under the behavioural section. See also: http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/02/11/using-bi-to-drive-improvements-in-data-quality/

Peter

]]> By: Rob http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/02/05/bi-implementations-are-like-icebergs/#comment-2700 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:38:23 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1255#comment-2700 nice article – though I would add another dimension to the iceberg analogy: data quality. BI is useless without data and misleading without cleansed and realiable data.

]]> By: A bad workman blames his [Business Intelligence] tools « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/02/05/bi-implementations-are-like-icebergs/#comment-2325 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:13:07 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1255#comment-2325 [...] Business Intelligence, I see some pertinent parallels. In a series of previous articles (including BI implementations are like icebergs, “All that glisters is not gold” – some thoughts on dashboards and Short-term “Trouble for [...]

]]> By: An update of the most read articles on this site « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/02/05/bi-implementations-are-like-icebergs/#comment-2036 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:25:23 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1255#comment-2036 [...] BI implementations are like icebergs [...]

]]> By: Data – Information – Knowledge – Wisdom « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/02/05/bi-implementations-are-like-icebergs/#comment-1804 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:29:40 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1255#comment-1804 [...] may have strong technological elements (though the former certainly has more than the latter, see BI implementations are like icebergs), but Knowledge and Wisdom imply a more human angle; even in these days of automated [...]

]]> By: “Why Business Intelligence projects fail” « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/02/05/bi-implementations-are-like-icebergs/#comment-1768 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:14:50 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1255#comment-1768 [...] I will come back to my four-pillared approach and emphasise the first pillar. There is an imperative to: Form a deep understanding of the key [...]

]]> By: Using multiple business intelligence tools in an implementation « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/02/05/bi-implementations-are-like-icebergs/#comment-1485 Sat, 16 May 2009 11:25:10 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1255#comment-1485 [...] cost of the BI tools themselves are only a minor part of the above (see also, BI implementations are like icebergs). Of course any savings made on tools may make funds available for other parts of the project. It [...]

]]> By: Maureen Clarry stresses the need for change skills in business intelligence on BeyeNetwork « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/02/05/bi-implementations-are-like-icebergs/#comment-1382 Tue, 12 May 2009 18:14:31 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1255#comment-1382 [...] an earlier article, BI implementations are like icebergs I argued that, in BI projects, the technology – at least in the shape of front-end [...]

]]> By: Business Intelligence Competency Centres « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/02/05/bi-implementations-are-like-icebergs/#comment-1341 Mon, 11 May 2009 17:26:52 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1255#comment-1341 [...] of a BI implementation (I cover these in more depth in several places on the blog, including BI implementations are like icebergs and the middle section of Is outsourcing business intelligence a good [...]

]]> By: The latest and greatest versus the valuable « Peter Thomas - Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/02/05/bi-implementations-are-like-icebergs/#comment-1033 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:38:19 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=1255#comment-1033 [...] glisters is not gold” – some thoughts on dashboards. In this I comment: “[...] echoing my comments on BI tools in general, I think an attractive looking dashboard is really only the icing on the cake. The cake itself has [...]

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