Intelligent Business

IT projects and Project Management: a fairytale?

Mariska Bulten — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:13:19 +0000

Once upon a time, there was Andy, a technical engineer working for many different IT projects. In each of these projects, Andy worked on the functional and technical design of, let’s say, a Business Intelligence solution. His boss and his project managers were highly impressed with his knowledge and the customers were satisfied. One day, [...]

Measuring performance: Big Brother is watching you!

Mariska Bulten — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:11:26 +0000

Currently, I am working on a big implementation of MS Project Server for operational and tactical planning. With this tooling, the organization that I am working for wants to create insight into many aspects of one of their programs. Hours spent, resource allocation, forecasts, project statuses, resource calendars: they all are being mentioned as part [...]

The BI Business Case

Mariska Bulten — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:21:25 +0000

As I discussed in my last article, Intelligence is not only about data and information, but also incorporates the intangible tacit knowledge from your employees. As you can see in the presentation that was uploaded recently, there is a big theoretical reasoning for why an implementation of a Business Intelligence solution should also include actions [...]

BI projects are just a start…

Martijn van de Ridder — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:44:59 +0000

How many times have you attended a meeting where the other attendants brought their own Excel-sheet showing conflicting figures? Probably way too many times… You wish for everybody to use one source, one definition, and maybe even one report or dashboard for their information needs in this meeting. Eventually a small business intelligence project is [...]

Implicit Intelligence

Mariska Bulten — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:03:12 +0000

Below you can see the presentation that I gave at a Business Information Management knowledge sharing session on Thursday October 16. The main goal was to inform people about the concept of tacit knowledge and how implementations of Business Intelligence should take this into consideration. Looking forward to your reactions!