‘Business Intelligence’ Archives

Business Intelligence Matters

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal highlighted the desperate need businesses have for workers skilled at analyzing data. The article outlines how many companies have been partnering with major US business schools to develop curriculum and certificate programs for data analytics. The ...

Associations Now on Business Intelligence

Here's another really good article on business intelligence in the association market, from ASAE's magazine, Associations Now. I know it's good, because I'm quoted ...

The Five Prerequisites for Implementing Business Intelligence

If you're going to embark on a business intelligence initiative, you ought to have these five items in place before you ...

Business Intelligence Defined

Here's a brief podcast (about three minutes) on my definition of business ...

Dashboards Redux

Back in May of last year, I wrote the following post, which in essence said "There's a lot of talk about dashboards, but I've encountered very few myself." Well, while attending the Aptify Users Conference a few weeks ago, one of the speakers was demonstrating the dashboards available in the ...

Speaking in Chicago

I'll be speaking in Chicago next Thursday, October 2, for the Association Forum of Chicagoland. My presentation will be on "Data Mining and Business Intelligence." You can get all the details ...

BI Case Study: National Defense Industrial Association

This is the last of four case studies on how associations are using business intelligence, about which I presented at a recent ASAE conference. There are a lot of details to these case studies, but since this is a blog, I'm going to keep this at a high level. The mission of the National Defense ...

BI Case Study: Professional Golfers Association

This is the third of four case studies on how associations are using business intelligence, about which I presented at a recent ASAE conference. There are a lot of details to these case studies, but since this is a blog, I'm going to keep this at a high level. The Professional Golfers ...

BI Case Study: National Association of College and University Business Officers

This is the second of four case studies on how associations are using business intelligence, about which I presented at a recent ASAE conference. There are a lot of details to these case studies, but since this is a blog, I'm going to keep this at a high level. When Steve Doran arrived at ...

BI Case Study: Texas Medical Association

This is the first of four case studies on how associations are using business intelligence, about which I presented at a recent ASAE conference. There are a lot of details to these case studies, but since this is a blog, I'm going to keep this at a high level. The Texas Medical Association ...