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Das aktuelle Zeitalter ist stark von Veränderungen geprägt. Veränderungen in der IT haben eine bisher noch nie dagewesene Geschwindigkeit erreicht. Ein Unternehmen ist nur dann wettbewerbsfähig, wenn dieses auf eintretende Veränderungen schnell reagieren kann. Diese Fähigkeit wird auch mit dem Begriff „Agilität“ beschrieben. Auch im Bereich der Business Intelligence spielt die Agilität eine entscheidende Rolle. Aus diesem Anlass prägten einige Mitglieder des TDWI (The Data Warehouse Institute) den Begriff „Agile Business Intelligence“. In diesem Buch wird analysiert, was sich hinter der „agilen Business Intelligence“ verbirgt. Zu Beginn der Analyse werden im ersten Kapitel der Hintergrund und die Motivation zur Thematik, die Zielsetzung der Arbeit und die Herangehensweise beschrieben. Zur Schaffung des richtigen Rahmens und zur Einführung des Lesers in die Thematik, findet in Kapitel zwei eine Erläuterung der Begriffsarten, der Business Intelligence, der BI-Projekte und der Agilität statt. Im dritten Kapitel erfolgt die Darstellung der „agilen Business Intelligence“ überwiegend aus Sicht der TDWI. Aber auch die Sichtweise außerhalb der TDWI, z.B. aus der Sicht des Marktforschungsunternehmens Forrester, wird aufgezeigt. Kapitel vier dient der Beschreibung agiler Vorgehensmodelle, Methoden, Architekturen und Techniken losgelöst von der Thematik Business Intelligence. Dabei soll die Darstellung der bereits in Kapitel drei vorgestellten Vorgehensmodelle und Methoden vertieft und weitere agile Vorgehensmodelle und Methoden vorgestellt werden, die eventuell im Rahmen der „agilen Business Intelligence“ eingesetzt werden könnten. Nachfolgend werden in Kapitel fünf einige Praxisbeispiele zu agilen BI-Projekten vorgestellt. Abschließend erfolgt in Kapitel sechs eine Synthese der zuvor analysierten und dargestellten Aspekte und die Beantwortung der Frage „Was ist ‚Agile Business Intelligence‘?“

L'intelligence du dirigeant et du manager c'est de faire des liens entre : l'entreprise et son environnement ; la dimension « machine » et la dimension « humaine » de l'entreprise. Les entreprises et organismes publics ont aujourd'hui un besoin croissant de gérer des organisations qui se complexifient au niveau de trois aspects :• la structure avec le matriciel, la distance et le télétravail ;• la multiplicité des populations à intégrer suite à : des fusions-absorptions d'entreprises ou organismes ayant des cultures différentes, l'apparition de nouvelles générations Y et Z, l'intégration de populations issues de migrations récentes avec de nouveaux apports culturels ;• la multiplicité des outils, avec l'intégration des NTIC dans le quotidien de tous les acteurs, l'arrivée de nouvelles missions…Tout cela entraîne une grande complexification des rôles de dirigeant et de manager. Il est fondamental de souligner l'importance du rôle du manager de managers pour intégrer la nécessité de diffuser les valeurs et pratiques managériales auprès des responsables de tous niveaux.L'objectif de l'ouvrage est de donner une vision, une capacité de diagnostic, ainsi que des outils pratiques et innovants pour une gouvernance exigeante et bienveillante qui intègre la variété des besoins managériaux d'une communauté humaine au travail.

Daten zur Lösung betriebswirtschaftlicher Problemstellungen effektiv und effizient nutzen. Die Bedeutung von Business Analytics leitet sich unmittelbar aus der rasant zunehmenden Verfügbarkeit von Daten ab, die aus der Digitalisierung aller Lebensbereiche resultiert. Wie übersetzen aber nun Unternehmen diese Daten so, dass daraus bessere Produkte, neue Services, innovative Geschäftsmodelle oder, allgemeiner formuliert, bessere unternehmerische Entscheidungen werden? Auf diese Fragen finden Führungskräfte des mittleren und des Top-Managements aller Branchen in diesem Buch Antworten. Es unterstützt dabei, drängende Problemstellungen der Unternehmenssteuerung zu identifizieren und diese mithilfe von Daten zu lösen. Dabei steht nicht nur die Vermittlung zentraler Algorithmen im Fokus. Vielmehr werden alle wesentlichen Herausforderungen behandelt, denen sich eine Führungskraft im Zusammenhang mit Business Analytics gegenübersieht: - Für welche betriebswirtschaftliche Problemstellung sollen die knappen Business Analytics-Ressourcen eingesetzt werden? - Welche Ressourcen, also Daten, IT und Personal, sind zur Lösung der konkreten Problemstellung notwendig? - Mit welchen Algorithmen können die betriebswirtschaftlichen Problemstellungen gelöst werden? - Wie müssen die Ergebnisse der Algorithmen aufbereitet werden, damit diese ideal eingesetzt werden können? Um den Herausforderungen strukturiert zu begegnen, wird in diesem Buch ein Business Analytics-Prozess vorgestellt, der sich in die vier Teilprozesse Framing, Allocation, Analytics und Preparation untergliedert. Er ist die Basis, einen unternehmensindividuellen Business Analytics-Ansatz zu entwickeln und zu implementieren. Zahlreiche reale Unternehmensbeispiele bieten Inspiration für konkrete Ansätze im eigenen Unternehmen: von der Beschaffung der Daten über die Wahl des optimalen Algorithmus bis hin zur empfängerorientierten Visualisierung der Ergebnisse. Über den Autor: Dr. Mischa Seiter ist Professor für Wertschöpfungs- und Netzwerkmanagement am Institut für Technologie- und Prozessmanagement der Universität Ulm und wissenschaftlicher Leiter des International Performance Research Institute. In dieser Funktion verantwortet er den berufsbegleitenden Ulmer Master-Studiengang „Business Analytics“. Außerdem ist Mischa Seiter zusammen mit Péter Horváth und Ronald Gleich Autor des Standardwerks „Controlling“.

The first chapter in this book examines the relationships between absorptive capacity and effective knowledge management through the analysis of quantitative data drawn from managers and employees in residential aged care organizations in Western Australia. The author, Michael Preece, defines absorptive capacity as the ability of an organization to use prior knowledge to recognize the value of new knowledge from external sources, assimilate this new knowledge, and apply it to the benefit of the organization. He provides valuable training in how service organizations go about transforming new knowledge into effective actionable business plans. The second chapter by Mohammad Shamsuddoha provides an application of system dynamics modelling in firms in the poultry industry in Bangladesh. This chapter offers deep knowledge of the'fifth discipline'and beyond. Shamsuddoha uses Vensim, a simulation-based software package, to build a simulation model with appropriate equations, formulae, and connectivity to replicate the real-life operation and outcome in a simulation environment. He also provides the in-depth knowledge necessary to learn to truly understand the fifth discipline.

Knowledge has become the most important asset of modern business. The term “business intelligence” (BI) has been used to describe processes and systems dedicated to the systematic and in-depth analysis of an organization and its competitive environment. The field of BI is an active and still growing area of computer applications in business and economy. Business ethics is a set of values, norms and principles that seeks to achieve respect for the rights generally recognised by society. The topic of ethical values has a range that is far too wide to conduct a thorough discussion of the concept within this contribution. One simple approach is to just use ethical value synonymously with goodness or virtuous behavior. This book discusses business intelligence, strategies and ethics.

For courses on Business Intelligence or Decision Support Systems.A managerial approach to understanding business intelligence systems.To help future managers use and understand analytics, Business Intelligence provides students with a solid foundation of BI that is reinforced with hands-on practice.

A trade secret is confidential, commercially valuable information that provides a company with a competitive advantage, such as customer lists, methods of production, marketing strategies, pricing information, and chemical formulae. Well-known examples of trade secrets include the formula for Coca-Cola, the recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken, and the algorithm used by Google's search engine. To succeed in the global marketplace, U.S. firms depend upon their trade secrets, which increasingly are becoming their most valuable intangible assets. However, U.S. companies annually suffer billions of dollars in losses due to the theft of their trade secrets by employees, corporate competitors, and even foreign governments. Stealing trade secrets has increasingly involved the use of cyberspace, advanced computer technologies, and mobile communication devices, thus making the theft relatively anonymous and difficult to detect. This book discusses the theft issues, legal protections and industry perspectives on trade secrets.

Volume 22 includes two main chapters in both Part A and B. It appears in two parts because all chapters offer great depth in coverage of core issues senior executives must address for long-term survival of the firm: business intelligence, knowledge management, and understanding of the systems dynamics of interfirm behavior. In the first main chapter of Part A Azizah Ahmad demonstrates that high-performing firms must achieve useful on-going business intelligence (BI). Ahmad shows how plans are designed and implemented for viable BI operations. The main contribution of the study is the identification of the firm's internal resources of BI governance that influences successful BI deployment. In the second chapter Md Nuruzzaman shows how country risk, different political actions from the government, and bureaucratic behavior influence the activities in industry supply-chains in emerging markets. The outcomes of the study are useful for various stakeholders of the Bangladeshi RMG industry sector ranging from the government to various private organizations. The applications of this study are extendable through further adaptation in other industries and various geographic contexts.

Big Data in Unternehmen. Dieses neue Buch gibt Managern ein umfassendes Verständnis dafür, welche Bedeutung Big Data für Unternehmen zukünftig haben wird und wie Big Data tatsächlich genutzt werden kann. Am Ende jedes Kapitels aktivieren Fragen, selbst nach Lösungen für eine erfolgreiche Implementierung und Nutzung von Big Data im eigenen Unternehmen zu suchen. Die Schwerpunkte - Warum Big Data für Sie und Ihr Unternehmen wichtig ist - Wie Big Data Ihre Arbeit, Ihr Unternehmen und Ihre Branche verändern - - wird - Entwicklung einer Big Data-Strategie - Der menschliche Aspekt von Big Data - Technologien für Big Data - Wie Sie erfolgreich mit Big Data arbeiten - Was Sie von Start-ups und Online-Unternehmen lernen können - Was Sie von großen Unternehmen lernen können: Big Data und Analytics 3.0 Der Experte Thomas H. Davenport ist Professor für Informationstechnologie und -management am Babson College und Forschungswissenschaftler am MIT Center for Digital Business. Zudem ist er Mitbegründer und Forschungsdirektor am International Institute for Analytics und Senior Berater von Deloitte Analytics.

What makes the''Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions''series stand out is its focus on all three characteristics that make up this research field - studies from scholars in different countries, with different research questions, relying on different theoretical perspectives. Such a broad, and inclusive, approach to mergers and acquisitions is not easily replicated in academic journals, with much narrower mandates and metrics. The collections published each year provide cutting edge ideas by leading scholars on a global scale. Doing so not only broadens the questions being studied, but also helps researchers consider the inter-relationships among different perspectives. In the final analysis, the best way to build understanding around a topic as diffuse as mergers and acquisitions is to be both integrative, and expansive, in choice of research questions and theoretical underpinnings.''Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions''offers this unique perspective, not easily found elsewhere, that will help scholars think about mergers and acquisitions in new ways, building our knowledge base on this critical topic.

Appropriate for all courses in Decision Support Systems (DSS), computerised decision making tools, and management support systems. Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems provides the only comprehensive, up-to-date guide to today's revolutionary management support system technologies, and showcases how they can be used for better decision-making. The 10th edition focuses on Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics for enterprise decision support in a more streamlined book. In addition to traditional decision support applications, this edition expands the reader's understanding of the various types of analytics by providing examples, products, services, and exercises by discussing Web-related issues throughout the text. The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.

'This book presents the latest exchange of academic research on all aspects of practicing and managing information using a multidisciplinary approach that examines its quality for organizational growth'--

Die Gründe, weshalb Wirtschaftsspionage von ausländischen Nachrichtendiensten betrieben wird, hängen von dem jeweiligen Staat ab, oftmals sind sie politisch motiviert. Studien zeigen, dass Unternehmern die Gefahr meist nicht bewusst ist, so dass sie ihre immateriellen Vermögensgegenstände nur unzureichend schützen. In dieser Analyse soll anhand der Industrieökonomik in Verbindung mit der Prinzipal-Agent-Theorie versucht werden, das Auftreten von Wirtschaftsspionage zu erklären. Außerdem werden empirische Erkenntnisse aus aktuellen Studien und die Folgen der Produktpiraterie für Unternehmen aufgezeigt. Im Anschluss wird aus der Industrieökonomie abgeleitet, für welche Unternehmen das Risiko der Wirtschaftsspionage besonders hoch ist. Darauf aufbauend wird dargestellt, wie die Gefahren im Unternehmen selbst identifiziert werden können. Im Folgenden werden dann typische Vorgehensweisen genannt und mögliche Maßnahmen vorgestellt. Im Fazit werden nochmal die wichtigsten Erkenntnisse aufgezeigt.

Der Erfahrungsraum Internet ist ein Ort der Netzkommunikation. Er begünstigt visuelle Artikulationsweisen, die produktiv in die Designpraxis übertragbar sind. Jörg Ibach zeichnet nach, wie aus musterhaften Sichtbarkeiten Relevanzstrukturen abgeleitet werden können, die Information in einen bedeutsamen Inhalt wandeln. Da sich so signifikante Gestaltungsmerkmale generieren lassen - wie bereits in zeitgenössischen Entwürfen erkennbar -, werden die Netzdiskurse als Impuls für die Produktsprache entdeckt. Im Rückgriff auf Foucault skizziert der Autor, wie Designtheorie als eine Form der Kommunikationstheorie verstanden werden kann.

There has never been a Business Intelligence Guide like this. It contains 130 answers, much more than you can imagine; comprehensive answers and extensive details and references, with insights that have never before been offered in print. Get the information you need--fast! This all-embracing guide offers a thorough view of key knowledge and detailed insight. This Guide introduces what you want to know about Business Intelligence. A quick look inside of some of the subjects covered: Process mining - Software for process mining, Saylor Foundation, Associated Press - Breach of contract and unfair competition, Data mart, Metadata - Metadata and data warehousing, Microsoft SQL Server - Business Intelligence Development Studio, Shamkant Navathe - Bibliography, Executive information system, Text mining - History, PostgreSQL - Proprietary derivatives and support, Teradata - Partners, Database marketing Advances in database marketing, Oracle Corporation Technology products, Data visualization - Data presentation architecture, Information system - Types of information systems, Business marketing - Target Market, Performance management - Further reading, System Architect (software) - Features, Business performance management, Spreadsheets - Web based spreadsheets, Sales intelligence, Oracle Corporation Overall timeline, Data fusion Data integration, Business intelligence Future, Operational Intelligence - Business intelligence, Event-driven architecture, Enterprise content management - ECM market development, Data mining, SAP AG Acquisitions, Analytic applications, Trust (social sciences) - Economics, Business intelligence Marketplace, Data visualization - Data mining, Database marketing Challenges and limitation of database marketing, Oracle Corporation Oracle Secure Enterprise Search, and much more...

Because of their daily presence in the field and favored relationships with their customers, salespeople are the eyes and ears of their companies. In the new economic war, managers cannot take the chance of not being fully aware of the way they could be threatened by the competition. Yet, organizations face great difficulties to stimulate salespeople's collection and dissemination of competitive intelligence, and to manage market-based intelligence efficiently. This book aims to assist sales and marketing managers in facing such challenges while providing them with action-oriented answers to the following key questions: What kind of information salespeople should collect from the field and how to transform such information into intelligence? How to improve salespeople's competitive intelligence collection and exploitation skills? How to enhance the sales force's commitment to competitive intelligence activities? How to manage and distill market-based intelligence throughout the organization and maintain market leadership? And, how to approach the ethical aspects of competitive intelligence and remain protected against competitors'competitive intelligence activities? By leveraging the latest research, practitioners'interviews, companies'best practices, along with practical tools and guidelines, this book help organizations achieve their market-orientation strategy and maintain a sustainable competitive edge.

Improve business decision-making processes today with Business Analytics. Business Analytics is a vital process used by organizations to create informed business strategies though the analysis of business data. Become a valued member of your organization by learning the benefits of implementing Business Analytics applications. Business analytics (BA) pertains to the skills, technologies, applications, and practices for continuous and repetitive exploration and investigation of business performance in the past to gain insight and drive business planning. Business analytics centers on discovering new insights and understanding of business performance based on data and statistical methods. This certification kit would be beneficial to recent graduates looking to get a foothold in the IT Industry, analysts looking to improve their understanding of the business analyst role, organizations wanting to make better and more informed business decisions, as well as looking for ways to explore business data and implement statistical analysis, and managers looking to optimize business processes. This certification validates your knowledge of specific methods, models, and/or tools. This is essential to professionals in order to be updated on the latest multimedia trends, and to add to their Business Analytics toolbox. The industry is facing a bold, new world with the amazing developments of Business Analytics, and the challenges and the opportunities this presents are unprecedented. The Business Analytics Complete Certification Kit serves as a complete introductory guide for anyone looking to grasp a better understanding of Business Analytics concepts and their practical application in any environment. The Art of Service's introductory Business Analytics training and certification helps IT practitioners develop the skills that are crucial, as businesses embark on this massive transformation. It provides an industry credential for IT professionals to help them transform into the world of Business Analytics. This training and certification enables you to move both the industry and business forward, and to quickly take advantage of the benefits that Business Analytics applications present. Take the next step: Get Certified! The Art of Service IT Service Management programs are the #1 certification programs in the information management industry. Being proven means investing in yourself and formally validating your knowledge, skills, and expertise by the industry's most comprehensive learning and certification program. The Business Analytics Complete Certification Kit course prepares you for Business Analytics Certification. Why register? - Easy and affordable. - Learning about Business Analytics technologies has never been more affordable. - Latest industry trends explained. - Acquire valuable skills and get updated about the industry's latest trends right here. Today. - Learn from the Experts. The Art of Service offers education about Business Analytics and 300 other technologies by the industry's best. - Learn at your own pace. Find everything right here, when you need it, and from wherever you are. What will you learn? - Learn the important concepts, tools, applications, and uses of Business Analytics. - Identify the levels of analytics. - Learn about the role of the Business Analyst. - Examine Business Analytics techniques and software. - Explore the challenges and predicted future of Business Analytics. Course Outline The topics covered in this course are: - All About Analytics. - Levels of Analytics and the Business Analyst. - Overview of Business Analytics. - Analytics Applications. - Business Analytics Techniques. - Business Analytics Software. - Optimizing, Challenges, and Future of Business Analytics. Contact Hours: The recommended minimum contac

Identify business vulnerabilities and develop strategies to minimize risk through Business Impact Analysis. Business Impact Analysis provides organizations with an action plan when preparing for possible risks that it may encounter. Become a valued member of your organization by learning the processes and methods of implementing Business Impact Analysis. Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is a vital component of an organization's Business Continuity Plan. A BIA is implemented in order to identify and evaluate potential risks that the organization may encounter and needs to be prepared for. A BIA explores and reveals any vulnerabilities, and then continues with a planning process to develop and design preventative strategies and procedures for minimizing business risks. This on-trend certification kit would be beneficial to recent graduates looking to get a foothold in the IT Industry, to businesses wanting to implement risk prevention strategies, businesses experiencing internal or external threats to services and production, and to managers wanting to identify potential business risk factors. This certification validates your knowledge of specific methods, models, and/or tools. This is essential to professionals in order to be updated on the latest multimedia trends, and to add to their Business Impact Analysis toolbox. The industry is facing a bold, new world with the amazing developments in Business Impact Analysis technology, and the challenges and the opportunities that this presents are unprecedented. The Business Impact Analysis Complete Certification Kit serves as a complete introductory guide for anyone looking to grasp a better understanding of Business Impact Analysis concepts and their practical application in any environment. The Art of Service's introductory Business Impact Analysis training and certification helps IT practitioners develop the skills that are crucial, as businesses embark on this massive transformation. It provides an industry credential for IT professionals to help them transform into the world of Business Impact Analysis. This training and certification enables you to move both the industry and business forward, and to quickly take advantage of the benefits that Business Impact Analysis applications present. Take the next step: Get Certified! The Art of Service IT Service Management programs are the #1 certification programs in the information management industry. Being proven means investing in yourself, and formally validating your knowledge, skills, and expertise by the industry's most comprehensive learning and certification program. The Business Impact Analysis Complete Certification course prepares you for Business Impact Analysis Certification. Why register? - Easy and affordable. - Learning about Business Impact Analysis technologies has never been more affordable. - Latest industry trends are explained. - Acquire valuable skills and get updated about the industry's latest trends right here. Today. - Learn from the Experts. The Art of Service offers education about Business Impact Analysis and 300 other technologies by the industry's best. - Learn at your own pace. Find everything right here, when you need it, and from wherever you are. What will you learn? - Learn the important concepts, tools, processes, and methods of Business Impact Analysis. - Learn about the benefits of implementing Business Impact Analysis processes. - Examine the links to Business Continuity Planning. - Learn about Business Impact Analysis in Contingency Planning. - Explore Impact Criticality concepts. - Research Business Impact Analysis myths and realities. Course Outline The topics covered in this course are: - Overview of Crisis Management and Business Continuity Planning. - Introduction to Business Impact Analysis. - BIA Processes and Impact Criticality.<

There has never been a Business Intelligence manual like this. Business Intelligence 103 Success Secrets is not about the ins and outs of Business Intelligence. Instead, it answers the top 103 questions that we are asked and those we come across in forums, our consultancy and education programs. It tells you exactly how to deal with those questions, with tips that have never before been offered in print. This guidebook is also not about Business Intelligence best practice and standards details. Instead it introduces everything you want to know to be successful with Business Intelligence. A quick look inside of the subjects covered: The Advantages of Microsoft Business Intelligence, What the Business Intelligence Industry Expects of its Players, SQL server business intelligence relies on relational database management to access data based on ta, Where to Find Business Intelligence Review, Much Ado about Business Intelligence Centers, Boast-worthy Attributes of Alpena Business Intelligence, Ways to Improve Business Intelligence Resume, What is Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence, Business Intelligence Service: Giving Vital Support to BI Projects, The Face of SQL 2005 Business Intelligence, The (Dizzying) Ins and Outs of Business Intelligence Analytics, 3 Keys to Successful Business Intelligence Strategy, Having Business Intelligence Through Visual Studio, What? No Business Intelligence Application in Your Company?!, Grow Your Business with IBM Business Intelligence, What Cognos Business Intelligence Can Do to Your Company, What Smart Business Intelligence Companies Do For You, The Features of the SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio, Noteworthy Tips for Business Intelligence Analysis, How SQL Business Intelligence Works?, The Significance of Business Intelligence, The Importance of Enterprise Business Intelligence, Requisites for the MCITP Business Intelligence Developer Exam, Using the Business Intelligence Data to Come Up With Solutions, MCITP BI: Continuing Business Intelligence, Business Objects Web Intelligence: Offering Flexible and Remote Business Intelligence Capability, Online Business Intelligence Maximizes Surveys, Best Features of a Business Intelligence Product, How to Clinch a Successful Deal with a Business Intelligence Vendor, The Key Aspect of SQL Server Business Intelligence, Ground-breaking Business Intelligence Summit: Enriching Management Practices towards Excellence, What s In Store For You In a Business Intelligence Course, What Is Business Intelligence?, A Place for Everyone: The Abundance of Business Intelligence Jobs in the Market, Business Intelligence Studio: A BI Developer s Best Companion, and much more...

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Business intelligence (BI) used to be so simple—in theory anyway. Integrate and copy data from your transactional systems into a specialized relational database, apply BI reporting and query tools and add business users. Job done. No longer. Analytics, big data and an array of diverse technologies have changed everything. More importantly, business is insisting on ever more value, ever faster from information and from IT in general. An emerging biz-tech ecosystem demands that business and IT work together. Business unIntelligence reflects the new reality that in today's socially complex and rapidly changing world, business decisions must be based on a combination of rational and intuitive thinking. Integrating cues from diverse information sources and tacit knowledge, decision makers create unique meaning to innovate heuristically at the speed of thought. This book provides a wealth of new models that business and IT can use together to design support systems for tomorrow's successful organizations. Dr. Barry Devlin, one of the earliest proponents of data warehousing, goes back to basics to explore how the modern trinity of information, process and people must be reinvented and restructured to deliver the value, insight and innovation required by modern businesses. From here, he develops a series of novel architectural models that provide a new foundation for holistic information use across the entire business. From discovery to analysis and from decision making to action taking, he defines a fully integrated, closed-loop business environment. Covering every aspect of business analytics, big data, collaborative working and more, this book takes over where BI ends to deliver the definitive framework for information use in the coming years. As the person who defined the conceptual framework and physical architecture for data warehousing in the 1980s, Barry Devlin has been an astute observer of the movement he initiated ever since. Now, in Business unIntelligence, Devlin provides a sweeping view of the past, present, and future of business intelligence, while delivering new conceptual and physical models for how to turn information into insights and action. Reading Devlin's prose and vision of BI are comparable to reading Carl Sagan's view of the cosmos. The book is truly illuminating and inspiring. --Wayne Eckerson, President, BI Leader Consulting Author, “Secrets of Analytical Leaders: Insights from Information Insiders”

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Immer mehr Unternehmen setzen auf BI-Lösungen, um schneller und flexibler auf ständig wachsende Anforderungen und Veränderungen der Märkte reagieren zu können. Zweifelsohne ist BI ein mächtiges Konzept, das die Unternehmensführung bei Entscheidungsfindungen ausschlaggebend unterstützt. Nichtsdestotrotz zeigt die Erfahrung, dass der Einsatz von BI kein Garant für ein erfolgreicheres Management ist. Der Grund dafür sind oft die Grenzen von BI. So zum Beispiel führt die starke Vergangenheitsorientierung der quantitativen, überwiegend monetären Größen, im Endeffekt dazu, dass das Unternehmen mit dem Blick in den Rückspiegel gesteuert wird. Die vergangenheitsorientierten Daten liefern gewiss wertvolle Informationen, besitzen aber selten Steuerungscharakter. Hier ist der Einsatz von Corporate Performance Management (CPM) gefragt. Warum die Synthese der beiden Konzepte Business Intelligence und CPM im Unternehmen notwendig ist und jeden Mitbewerber hinter sich lassen kann, versucht die vorliegende Studie deutlich zu machen.

Ein Business Intelligence-System sammelt automatisiert Informationen aus verschiedenen, zumeist operativen und betrieblichen Informationssystemen. Die so extrahierten Daten werden anschließend in der Regel für strategische Managemententscheidungen aufbereitet und in geeigneter Form dem Management bzw. der jeweiligen Zielgruppe im Unternehmen zur Verfügung gestellt. Um Business Intelligence durchzuführen ist ein Data Warehouse nicht zwingend nötig, aber vorteilhaft. Ein Data Warehouse kann als Datenverwaltungssystem verstanden werden, das Kontrollmöglichkeiten bei Abläufen in Unternehmen sowie Entscheidungshilfen für die Führungskräfte liefert. Die Erstellung und Nutzung solcher Systeme stellt jedoch noch keinen Erfolg sicher. Es kommt vielmehr auch auf eine durchdachte Strategie an. Dabei zeigt sich immer wieder, dass der Erfolg von Data Warehouse-Projekten maßgeblich vom Vorgehen im Projekt bestimmt ist. Voraussetzung für die ingenieurmäßige Entwicklung eines Data Warehouses ist demnach die Verwendung eines geeigneten Vorgehensmodells, das eine nachvollziehbare und variierbare Steuerung des gesamten Entwicklungsprozesses garantieren soll. Jedem Vorgehensmodell sind Methoden für die jeweiligen Aktivitäten und unterstützende Softwarewerkzeuge zugeordnet. Vorgehensmodelle stellen vorgegebene Rahmenwerke dar, die die (vor allem zeitliche) Abarbeitung der notwendigen Aktivitäten systematisch beschreiben. Sie sind deshalb als wichtige Hilfsmittel zu betrachten, um die Erfolgswahrscheinlichkeit von IT-Projekten zu erhöhen. Bei Einführung eines Data Warehouses bestehen jedoch ganz spezifische Aspekte und Besonderheiten, die durch das Vorgehensmodell berücksichtigt werden müssen. Für die Implementierung eines Data Warehouses wird ein Vorgehensmodell benötigt, das quantitativen und qualitativen Managementansprüchen gerecht wird und, im Rahmen der Business Intelligence, eine effektive und effiziente Nutzung garantieren soll. Von dieser Prämisse ausgehend wird ein Vorgehensmodell konzipiert, welches sich in besonderer Weise für die Einführung eines Data Warehouses eignet. Dazu werden in diesem Buch zunächst die wichtigsten Begriffe erklärt. Neben der eigentlichen Definition wird jeweils auch auf die Bedeutung bzw. auf zugehörige Werkzeuge eingegangen. Danach werden grundlegende Vorgehensmodelle beschrieben. Dabei wird sich zeigen, dass keines der dargestellten Vorgehensmodelle grundsätzlich ungeeignet ist, da sich jedes der Modelle in der Vergangenheit vielfach bewährt hat. Dennoch ist es vom jeweiligen Projekt abhängig, welche grundlegende Vorgehensweise bevorzugt werden sollte. Die dargestellten Vorgehensmodelle werden anschließend hinsichtlich einer Eignung für die Einführung eines Data Warehouses kritisch betrachtet. Zudem werden die Besonderheiten dargestellt, die ein Data Warehouse beinhaltet. Ableitend von den bis hier erarbeiteten Ergebnissen werden dann Anforderungen definiert, die ein Vorgehensmodell für die Einführung eines Data Warehouses erfüllen sollte. Ein geeignetes Modell wird schließlich vorgeschlagen und beschrieben. Außerdem werden die zuvor festgelegten Anforderungen an das Modell überprüft.

THE BOOK THAT IS STARTING A FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT REVOLUTION! Learn the financial standards for businesses and their CEOs that drive profit and cashflow, proactively! This book, proven to help even larger businesses, offers the quickest way to understand, implement, manage and effectively communicate your financial plan to the key players in your business, using the Real-time Cashflow Management System (RCMS). It teaches RCMS and financial concepts to owners, CEOs, and key executives as well as instructions to the finance team for fast implementation. Know your monthly business financial results on the first day of the month, instead of several days or months after it ends. Then drive your current and future operations toward greater financial success; every day, every week, every month, every year! Many medium and large businesses already manage their companies with historical and forecasted data. The concept is not new; however, there are two significant gaps in the use of good financial management tools. First, many businesses continue to be complacent with historical and maybe budget to actual financial reporting, but they lack true financial anticipation and proactive financial management. Second, many of the companies who do use historical, budget and forecast based financial management tools have not educated all the users of the data, including the CEO, investor, banker, and especially middle managers responsible for driving profit and cashflow in their business unit. Learn about the Real-time Cashflow Management System and how to Drive Your Business to Financial Success today!

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This book is essential reading for any manager who has to make competitive decisions — decisions which affect the competitive success of a corporation or business unit. The book is unique in that it is based on detailed research spanning a decade of dramatic competitive change. Thanks to the internet, globalization, technological and demographic change, the velocity of competition is increasing and competitive decisions have to be made faster. The book, however, shows that many senior managers are unprepared and unable to meet quite common competitive challenges even half the time. Moreover, many firms have developed cultures where people do not trust each other with information critical to competitive success. Employees can spend more time competing with one another for the bonus pool than dealing with the real competitive forces.This book will equip managers with the intelligence and knowledge they need to make good competitive decisions at all levels of the organization.

You have more information at hand about your business environment than ever before. But are you using it to “out-think” your rivals? If not, you may be missing out on a potent competitive tool.In Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning, Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris argue that the frontier for using data to make decisions has shifted dramatically. Certain high-performing enterprises are now building their competitive strategies around data-driven insights that in turn generate impressive business results. Their secret weapon? Analytics: sophisticated quantitative and statistical analysis and predictive modeling.Exemplars of analytics are using new tools to identify their most profitable customers and offer them the right price, to accelerate product innovation, to optimize supply chains, and to identify the true drivers of financial performance. A wealth of examples—from organizations as diverse as Amazon, Barclay's, Capital One, Harrah's, Procter & Gamble, Wachovia, and the Boston Red Sox—illuminate how to leverage the power of analytics.