http://peterjamesthomas.com 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/ http://peterjamesthomas.com/career-information/experience/chubb-insurance-company-of-europe/the-emir-project/#comment-3834 Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:05:35 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?page_id=223#comment-3834 [...] the danger of too blindly following any recipe for success. I then provided 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 [...]

]]> http://peterjamesthomas.com/career-information/experience/chubb-insurance-company-of-europe/the-emir-project/#comment-3175 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:00:02 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?page_id=223#comment-3175 [...] the need for consistency in management information; the dynamics of the Insurance industry and the business value added by Business Intelligence in a pan-European insurance organisation.     Disclosure – Part I: In the work I refer to above, I leveraged [...]

]]> http://peterjamesthomas.com/career-information/experience/chubb-insurance-company-of-europe/the-emir-project/#comment-1845 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:51:32 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?page_id=223#comment-1845 [...] stated this caveat, my own experience is of an organisation that was smart enough to realise that it needed to take better decisions, but [...]

]]> http://peterjamesthomas.com/career-information/experience/chubb-insurance-company-of-europe/the-emir-project/#comment-1765 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:14:40 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?page_id=223#comment-1765 [...] this one is something that I am more intimately familiar with. Back in 2000, I was charged with improving the management information of a large organisation, in response to profitability issues that they were experiencing. No one mentioned data warehouses, [...]

]]> http://peterjamesthomas.com/career-information/experience/chubb-insurance-company-of-europe/the-emir-project/#comment-1113 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:51:00 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?page_id=223#comment-1113 [...] I don’t know Tony and so don’t want to focus too much on precisely what he wrote, nor to try to second guess what he meant exactly in this post. My approach will be instead to take a more personal angle and describe some of the thoughts that his comments provoked in me (I am using “provoked” here in a positive sense, maybe “inspired” would have been a better choice of word). If you want to read my comments with the full context, then please click on the link above. What I am going to do here is to present some excerpts from each of my two lengthier contributions. The first of these is as follows (please note that I have also corrected a couple of typos and grammatical infelicities): Rather than being defensive, and as a BI professional I would probably have every right to be so, I think that Patrick has at least half a point. If some organisations had avoided problems (or mitigated their impact) through the use of good BI (note the adjective) in the current climate, then BI people (me included) would rush to say how much we had contributed. I have certainly done this when the BI systems that I have implemented helped an organisation to swing from record losses to record profits. [...]

]]> http://peterjamesthomas.com/career-information/experience/chubb-insurance-company-of-europe/the-emir-project/#comment-429 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:52:02 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?page_id=223#comment-429 [...] in the title of this blog. I have described various aspects of this work elsewhere, for example in The EMIR Project and my collection of articles on Cultural Transformation. I have also written about the general [...]

]]> http://peterjamesthomas.com/career-information/experience/chubb-insurance-company-of-europe/the-emir-project/#comment-191 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:51:58 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?page_id=223#comment-191 [...] be so striking, that there will be no argument about their correlation. This is a situation that I have experienced myself.     Measuring BI payback via [...]

]]> http://peterjamesthomas.com/career-information/experience/chubb-insurance-company-of-europe/the-emir-project/#comment-127 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:01:45 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?page_id=223#comment-127 [...] business intelligence and cultural transformation. While one driver for this is that I have led BI projects that had explicit goals of cultural transformation, I think that there is a deeper connection to be explored [...]

]]> http://peterjamesthomas.com/career-information/experience/chubb-insurance-company-of-europe/the-emir-project/#comment-117 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:56:04 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?page_id=223#comment-117 [...] growing rapidly to become a large one and floating on the London Stock Exchange in the process, or driving cultural change across the European and Latin American operations of a multinational insurance organisation through the [...]

]]> http://peterjamesthomas.com/career-information/experience/chubb-insurance-company-of-europe/the-emir-project/#comment-108 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:29:50 +0000 http://peterthomas.wordpress.com/?page_id=223#comment-108 [...] that worked for me in this area, I should remind readers of the context. This was delivering a new BI system in a European insurance organisation with the explicit aim of enacting a cultural transformation; [...]

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