Comments on: A bad workman blames his [Business Intelligence] tools

By: Four [Social Media] Failures and a Success « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:12:37 +0000

[...] have often used this column to talk about my opinion that your choice of Business Intelligence tool is one of the least important factors in a BI/DW project. In the article I link to in the previous sentence, I quote from an interview I gave in which I [...]

By: Analogies « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert

Thu, 19 May 2011 23:47:51 +0000

[...] A bad workman blames his [BI] tools Running before you can walk Feasibility studies continued… Incremental Progress and Rock [...]

By: Trouble at the top « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:03:36 +0000

[...] Anyway, my talk – entitled Making Business Intelligence an Integral part of your Data Quality Programme – was based on themes I had introduced in Using BI to drive improvements in data quality and developed in Who should be accountable for data quality?. It centred on the four-pillar framework that I introduced in the latter article (yes I do have a fetish for four-pillar frameworks as per): [...]

By: Projects « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:32:26 +0000

[...] A bad workman blames his [Business Intelligence] tools [...]

By: Some thoughts on the IRM(UK) DW/BI conference « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:05:42 +0000

[...] some background about my first major achievement in data warehousing and went on to present the general framework for success in BI/DW programmes that I developed as a result of this. In concluding the first part of the speech, I attempted to [...]

By: Incremental Progress and Rock Climbing « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert

Tue, 04 May 2010 12:24:31 +0000

[...] my presentation – on Initiating and Developing a BI Strategy – which focussed on both my framework for success in Business Intelligence and, in particular, addressing the important cultural transformation aspects of these. Thank you [...]

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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:40:43 +0000

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By: Playing the BI Blame Game « Peter Thomas – Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:10:01 +0000

[...] abridged and reworked version of my earlier blog post – A bad workman blames his [Business Intelligence] tools – was published on the National Computer Centre’s Evaluation Centre site last October [...]

By: Peter Thomas

Peter Thomas — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:52:38 +0000

Thanks for the comments Michele – have been too busy to blog or tweet at all recently. Will have to remedy this soon.

Peter

By: mgoetz

mgoetz — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:45:13 +0000

Nice perspective on “it’s not the tool.” Tech is always such a shiny object and marketing always promises the silver bullet. BI is so much more and requires a significant amount of thought around process and insight before considering a solutions.

@Stray Cat – I think the challenge is walking them through their process providing the right questions that tease out their steps and thought process. It can be done/started when they provide their reporting and say, “we want this.” Then, use that as the catalyst to build out what you need. Think mars vs venus.

Considering that I’m in the middle of redirecting a BI implementation gone awry, this was timely. Always great thoughts. Thanks Peter!