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Using Dashboards to Connect Your Tribe

Seth Godins tribes are formed from a shared interest and a way to communicate. How do dashboards support these two pre-requisites?
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How Rational Is Your Negotiating?

Negotiations are just a series of decisions – weighing up the value of agreeing with the other party or not, and the costs associated with each. However, there are three ways in which people with whom one is negotiating act that could be deemed counterproductive.
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The Impact of Management in Personal Performance

When seeking to optimize the performance of others - we need to consider how best they will manage themselves, rather than impress our own beliefs on how best to get the job done. This article explores how we are treated impacts how we treat others - and how they respond.
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Dashboards – A Convergence of Performance Management and Business Intelligence

Dashboards are common to both performance management systems and business intelligence - but used as a tool to converge these two powerful capabilities, they become a power broker in their own right.
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Process Management - Key to Strategic Performance

Research supports claim that process management is a key contributor to strategic performance, when part of a performance management culture.
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Change Your Reports - Change Your Perspective

When we focus on outdated reports, we are limiting our perspective to the past, instead of to the future.
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Gut Feeling - Greatness or Gluttony for Power

When leaders rely on gut feeling or intuition to make major decisions, are they falling into the trap of indulging their own power?
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Getting to Great Decisions

A room full of smart people means a room full of biases and assumptions - so just how does a good leader get to great decisions?
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Avoid a Common Business Case Mistake

Calculating ROI in a business case can often be difficult - it can also be wrong when the focus is on recovering sunk costs on technology?
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Why Good Enough Is No Longer Good Enough

As the competitive cycle gets shorter businesses can no longer rely on being good enough - they must be remarkable?
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Lead Big, Manage Small

Good leadership is less about management and more about influence and delegation of power. But just how do leaders keep up with what is going on in their businesses when things are changing so fast?
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Leading to Success in 2010

The three critical things all leaders must do to be successful in 2010 - but that many leaders won't do.
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CPM = Process + BI

New business models are driving convergence of BI and processes with CPM into a converged performance management center.
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Leaders, Culture and CPM

Are todays leaders being constrained by legacy cultures and outdate performance management models?
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Business Success During Tough Times

Many businesses take knee-jerk responses to sudden tough times. Such responses are emotion driven and counter productive to the opportunties that lay hidden during such periods.
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Using BI To Drive Business Transformation

Business intelligence is proving an efficient and effective framework to overcome traditional challenges in organizational change management, with many surprising benefits.
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Corporate Learning Models

Is your organization gaining the most from your employees by understanding they way they think, they way they learn and how technology can release your innovation energy.
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The Big Lie About Truth

Technology has expanded the way in which humans now communicate, share information and collaborate, but has the human ability to process this data in a reasonable time to make timely decisions. Find out!
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The Principles of Lean Thinking

Lean principles have been applied to many other aspects of business including product development, thinking and decision making.
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Unravelling the Difference Between Performance Metrics

It is easy to get confused around KRA's, KRI's, PI's and KPI's. This article clarifies the meaning of each and how it is applied to any organization.
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Semantic Search and Rich Media

As rich media is becoming the norm of content development online, analytics and search are seeking ways to ensure this unstructured data is accessible to intelligence applications and business users.
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Semantic Search and Rich Media

Who Controls Customer Behaviour?

Social media requires an deeper understanding of customer behaviour. Behavioural targeting is being used in an attempt to capture individual site visitor attention and engage them in desired conversions.
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Who Controls Customer Behaviour?

How BI Optimizes Marketing To Improve Profits

As markets mature, marketing efforts change from customer acquisition to retention and increasing revenue per customer. Business intelligence tools shine in helping marketing laser target product offers and profitability in ways never before possible.
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Increasing Customer Value By Using CRM As a Process

Most companies view CRM as a project to drive a promotion or segment a customer base. However, this fails to release most of the value of CRM, a value that is only fully recognised when CRM is adopted as a corporate wide process.
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How Companies Are Using BI to Drive Corporate Performance

There are many ways a company can drive real value through BI. There are also several ways in which an organisation can gain support for BI...[Feb 2008]
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Determining ROI on BI Projects

Are metrics used in calculating BI Project ROI also outdated, and what is being proposed to replace financial metrics...[Jan 2008]
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Engagement and Persuasiveness Dominate Online Metrics

Are metrics focused on traffic outdated and page views being replaced by...[Jan 2008]
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Tactics For Improving Your Online Campaigns

Using past performance data in web analytics tools can be a trap. Business intelligence of any kind must be viewed in the context of the environment in which the data is collected. [Jan 2008]
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Using Technology To Drive Business Performance

Business Performance Management technology is enabling organisations to become more flexible, innovative and responsive to todays faster, ever-changing marketplace [Nov 2007]
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The Executive Guide to Corporate Data

A key requirement in any business intelligence program is for the business, rather than IT, to accept ownership of corporate data. [Oct 2007]
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The Executive Guide to BI Tools And Solutions

Today, advanced BI tools have expanded on this concept to become advanced decision making support and corporate performance management systems. [Oct 2007]
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Using BI To Power Jump Corporate Performance

Business intelligence tools support every day business decisions on how to operate the business to better achieve corporate objectives. [Oct 2007]
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CIO Challenge - Effectiveness Versus Alignment

Lack of alignment of the IT function with the business is the greatest challenge facing CIO's today. But should alignment be sought at the expense of efficiency. [Sep 07]
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Technology Convergence Driving New Business Models

Is the IT management industry at a tipping point. "The kind of change that is so pervasive and complex that it’s especially hard to see or define". [Jul 07]
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