AgileBI Team
As a BI Practitioner
I want to understand what an AgileBI team is and isn’t
So that I know how to form and storm one
Building a self organising team is one of the key factors required to deliver in an AgileBI way.
Creating a team with T-Skills and helping them through the process of forming, storming and norming is a mssive challenge.
The articles below provide more details on how to achieve this.
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The business model for BI is changing
Anybody who knows me knows that I am a big fan of Seth Godin. I find his logic enlightening, his insight well-reasoned, his writing innovative and when added together he is just cool! (Pity I didn't think of this way to see Seth cheap, like Victoria's friend) Seths...
SAS Visual Analytics Short Online Demo
Quick overview on SAS Visual Analytics from the SAS Software Youtube channel below. Excuse the number of times they say daaaattaaaa and the word Billion (and no thats not the price 😉 Interesting bits I picked up: It automatically picks the most suitable...
SAS Inno”VA”tion
SAS has been around for a long time and you have to admit it has been a very successful company announcing USD $2.8 billion in revenue lately, while remaining privately owned and focussed on delivering Analytics and related Business Intelligence software. But it's...
Google insight – is this the future of Analytics?
I found an interesting article here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/justinesharrock/a-glimpse-into-googles-brain-hidden-in-a-spreadsheet-app It outlines how if you open a google docs spreadsheet and create two cells of related text (say two different brand of beers) then...
Gartner (meta) BI Definitions – Definitions about Definitions
When reading the latest 2013 Gartner BI and Analytics Magic Quadrant I noticed that they have included some definitions of the various capabilities in each of the BI categories. I wil no doubt end up cutting and pasting them into a few BI Strategy documents this...
Gartner Magic Quadrant Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms 2013
Gartner released their latest Magic Quadrant for BI last month. My thoughts as I when reading through the document: Microsoft has shot right up and given the massive disparity in pricing between them and the old Mega BI Vendors club (Oracle, IBM, SAS, SAP) and the...
Innovation Innovation where for art thou
I was sitting at the SUNZ conference last week listening to Evan Stubbs talk about Innovation and Analytics and how over the next 3-5 years there will be a marked shortage in Analytical bods, as the demand for these skills will far outweigh the supply. One of the examples of Innovation Evan gave was that old favourite […]
Meetings, Meetings, Meetings and not an outcome to drink
It would be fair to say that when working with customers defining or implementing BI strategies or architectures, I spend a bit of time in meetings with them. Meetings are always booked for at least an hour often two. (as compared to workshops that are normally 1/2 a...
Apple Retail Stores are a competitive advantage, goes against conventional wisdom or does it?
Interesting article on how Apple are closing down 20 retail stores so they can move them to alternative locations that allow them to be bigger: http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/12/apple-closing-20-retail-stores-in-order-expand/ Interesting as of course the conventional wisdom for retailers for the last few years has been to from “bricks and mortar” to an eChannel strategy. However there has been a lot of noise around people […]