The Modern BI Organization - Book Review
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In 2009 MaxMetrics published the book “The Modern BI Organization”. Dr. Tamás Henk, Associate Professor Dep. Of Telecommunications and Media Informatics at the Budapest University of TechnologBI Surveyy and Economics writes the following review: 

The study developed in the book is based

  • on Internet survey with 1000 respondents about the role and the effect of BI applications
  • augmented by telephone interviews with 10 executive respondents.
The study aims to find the real answer to the following question: how could a company work more efficiently by modern BI solutions? The value of this study does not only come from the method that the authors present their knowledge about business intelligent solutions, but also from the real data analysis according to fact-based approach supporting their statements.

 

In the first part of the survey, the authors describe the connection between the studied 500 organizations and the business intelligence, there is a comprehensive overview about the used BI software solutions, their vendors and the organization's characteristics.

By using this information, the reader can determine their company's level in aspect of BI. The next part of the study focuses on the decision-making and it's performance in case of organizations. The authors found strong correspondence between the creating BI entry and the performance of the organization. Another recommended step is the building of an automate decision-making framework.

The last part of the study contains several case studies collected via deep telephone interviews. The case studies from different industries describe interesting special recurring problems and experiments about managing BI projects.

The conclusion of the study shows that creating Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC) improves the organization's performance, and several critical success factors can be identified by the analysis of case studies.

Regarding our benefit from the book, it broadens our scope on BI and contributes to our better understanding BI when we are just preparing teaching material on Analytical Business Intelligence. On the other hand, we were interested also in the following items/questions:

  • an overview on the available references in the field,
  • the relation between BICC and the quality management, the strategic planning is already included in the study,
  • could the method be further augmented by personal visits at some selected companies?

To order the book visit
http://www.amazon.de/Modern-Organization-countries-industries-interviews/dp/3000255192

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