The State of Business Intelligence in the Australian mid-market Peter Carr Managing Director February, 2010
Aug 20, 2015
The State of Business Intelligencein the Australian mid-market
Peter CarrManaging DirectorFebruary, 2010
Success is contingent on a number of key factors within an overall information strategy
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The four pillars of analytical competition HBS 2007
And Australian organisations are making a good start through senior management buy-in
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For local companies the applications and drivers are significant with big business policy bleeding into mid-market
• Big business drivers are either policy or competition driven:– AML and Fraud– Distinctive capability– Supply Chain Optimisation– Merger and Acquisition Activity – Inventory Optimisation– People retention
• Mid-market business drivers are information resource driven– Data quality in customer records – Multiple systems and lack of resources– Master-data management or multiple versions of the truth– Conventional wisdom and leader-pleasing
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Effective Information Management to support an analytical oragnisation requires the right solution
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Source: Longhaus
What started with statistics became dominated with office productivity tools ...until now
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Front OfficeFront End
Info Worker
Back OfficeBack End
Programmer
29-44%39-38%
22-47%
Source: Longhaus
So what have we achieved after 40 years of effort?
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Research suggests that approaches relating to predictive analytics are the least adopted
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And as such the supply market is a busy one with specialists rising to meet demand for true BI strategies
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How do you move ahead?“In God We Trust, All Others Bring Data”
• Gut feel management– Why is my company using BI?
• Upward management– What are the current data quality issues inside my organisation?
• Spreadsheet management– Do the systems we utilise actually support BI?
• Supplier management– Can I get it all in one place?– How can I rationalise?
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