Comments on: Is the time ripe for appointing a Chief Business Intelligence Officer? http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/07/22/is-the-time-ripe-for-appointing-a-chief-business-intelligence-officer/ 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. Fri, 25 May 2012 11:20:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Peter Thomas http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/07/22/is-the-time-ripe-for-appointing-a-chief-business-intelligence-officer/#comment-8278 Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:49:51 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=3976#comment-8278 Hi James,

Wouldn’t argue with that:

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.

:-)

Peter

]]> By: James Taylor http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/07/22/is-the-time-ripe-for-appointing-a-chief-business-intelligence-officer/#comment-8276 Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:43:56 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=3976#comment-8276 Make it a chief Decision officer and you would get my support. Why make a CxO focused on technology rather than the business benefit of the technology? That would be like having a chief General Ledger officer instead of a CFO….
James

]]> By: Most popular articles over the last eight months « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/07/22/is-the-time-ripe-for-appointing-a-chief-business-intelligence-officer/#comment-2884 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:40:51 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=3976#comment-2884 [...] Is the time ripe for appointing a Chief Business Intelligence Officer? [...]

]]> By: Peter Thomas http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/07/22/is-the-time-ripe-for-appointing-a-chief-business-intelligence-officer/#comment-2332 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:57:43 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=3976#comment-2332 Nikhil,

Thank you for your comment. Wouldn’t that be an argument for not having a CIO as well as this position allows business leaders to not have to think about IT (an outcome that is not that uncommon sadly).

Peter

]]> By: Nikhil Datar http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/07/22/is-the-time-ripe-for-appointing-a-chief-business-intelligence-officer/#comment-2331 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:53:24 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=3976#comment-2331 Very interesting discussion. I guess the suggested role will eat into the “Should be accountabilities” of other business leaders and may lead to some conflict culturally in most organizations. To me, making a business more and more intelligent is a collective effort and the CEO, Business Heads and CIO need to make it happen. The very fundamental problem of most organizations is poor common understanding of performance itself. The maturity of performance processes needs to change.

]]> By: Peter Thomas http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/07/22/is-the-time-ripe-for-appointing-a-chief-business-intelligence-officer/#comment-2314 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:00:36 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=3976#comment-2314 Shiva,

Thanks for your comments. I don’t see this role becoming mainstream for some time (if ever), but for some organisations, perhaps those where information is even more at the heart of what they do than it would be for any organisation, I have seen it happening already.

Peter

]]> By: Shiva Gopalakrishnan http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/07/22/is-the-time-ripe-for-appointing-a-chief-business-intelligence-officer/#comment-2313 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:53:50 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=3976#comment-2313 A very interesting concept; I would love this job but, I believe it will take a long time for something like this to happen. The most important thing is the maturity of the organization playing a part.

There is a lot of importance given to regulatory compliance and DW/BI is looked upon to satisfy these compliance.

Most places now have the BI Head reporting to the CTO or the IT head. What I see happening (or should happen) in the short term future, is the Head of BI reporting to the CEO directly.

]]> By: Peter Thomas http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/07/22/is-the-time-ripe-for-appointing-a-chief-business-intelligence-officer/#comment-2312 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:04:00 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=3976#comment-2312 Though I guess quite a few of the people voting would be BI professionals and thus not 100% neutral on this topic :-).

Peter

]]> By: Marcelo Hernandez http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/07/22/is-the-time-ripe-for-appointing-a-chief-business-intelligence-officer/#comment-2311 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:35:44 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=3976#comment-2311 Hello Peter,

Yes, indeed I agree with your opinion and perhaps appointing a CBIO is the natural course during the maturity cycle of BI strategies.
As your poll shows, the majority of voters also agree with the idea of a CBIO.

Marcelo.

]]> By: Peter Thomas http://peterjamesthomas.com/2009/07/22/is-the-time-ripe-for-appointing-a-chief-business-intelligence-officer/#comment-2307 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:47:47 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?p=3976#comment-2307 Marcelo,

I agree with you about BICCs – I blogged on this a while ago in – Business Intelligence Competency Centres – if you are interested.

Wouldn’t the head of the BICC have a role rather similar to that of a CBIO?

Peter

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