http://blog.maia-intelligence.com/2009/03/24/why-bi-initiatives-fail/ An Intelligent Blog On Business Intelligence! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:06:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.maia-intelligence.com/2009/03/24/why-bi-initiatives-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-2481 Rodrigo Coutinho Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:03:43 +0000 http://blog.maia-intelligence.com/2009/03/24/why-bi-initiatives-fail/#comment-2481 While I agree with the main points regarding success/failure, in my opinion the main point is the disconnect between who uses and who benefits. This in turn drives data quality south, increases the delay in obtaining the expected results and so on. In simpler terms, BI is sold as a "silver bullet" to Senior management, but the needs and expectations of the operational personnel are not taken into account (technitians, sales personnel, warehouse, etc). They are fundamental because they provide the raw data that will become the high level intelligence used in the executive suite. So, without a good, steady flow of quality data - both structured and un-structured - no BI is successfull. Vice-versa, if one has that flow, BI takes on a life of it's own and truly empowers the organisation, mainly because the organisation has been empowered to start off with. While I agree with the main points regarding success/failure, in my opinion the main point is the disconnect between who uses and who benefits. This in turn drives data quality south, increases the delay in obtaining the expected results and so on.
In simpler terms, BI is sold as a “silver bullet” to Senior management, but the needs and expectations of the operational personnel are not taken into account (technitians, sales personnel, warehouse, etc). They are fundamental because they provide the raw data that will become the high level intelligence used in the executive suite. So, without a good, steady flow of quality data – both structured and un-structured – no BI is successfull. Vice-versa, if one has that flow, BI takes on a life of it’s own and truly empowers the organisation, mainly because the organisation has been empowered to start off with.

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