Back in 2012, Gartner Group stated that by 2014, fewer than 30% of business intelligence initiatives will align with enterprise business drivers. As we enter the final quarter of 2014, do we feel Gartner is right? The key question is how are organizations falling within...
We could have had some fun with the title and named it “Turning your CFO into a KPI Cheerleader by improving Working Capital Management (WCM) by Reducing Days of Sales Outstanding (DSO)”. Lots of great business words. There are many ways to turn your CFO...
IBM states that every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. Just to put that amount of data into perspective, one quintillion is 10 to the 18th power. Doing some simple math, and assuming 5,000 companies generate that data evenly, we can guestimate that...
The old business adage “you can’t manage what you don’t measure” has been echoed throughout the halls of organizations for years. Many business metrics programs use this adage as a rallying cry. Once an organization determines what to measure, the next step is how to...
Analytics and big data is all the rage now. With the proliferation of supply chain data from so many sources - from manufacturing line data to logistics data to supplier quality data to inventory, supply chain performance can be impacted in a positive manner by...
The answer is both – supply chain Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) need to span all levels or an organization and thus should be tops-down for executives and management while knowledge workers need to review day-to-day KPIs to execute their activities. One concern with many organizations...
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="652"] There is context and then there is C O N T E X T[/caption] Photo sharing and messaging is all the rage these days. Similar collaborative technologies can be leveraged by supply chain organizations, further increasing value derived by supply chain technologies. The...
As business intelligence and analytics continue to add value to supply chain organizations, how do we gain even more value? With an increase in data and the sources of information – from supply chain systems to customer systems to supplier management systems, a source of business...
Rethinking your company's KPI strategy A recent study by The Advanced Performance Institute entitled 20 Years of Measuring and Managing Business Performance revealed the fact that less that 20% of companies state everyone obtains regular insights (usually using Key Performance Indicators, or KPIs) which improve day-to-day...
We have seen so much recent attention on large tech companies “unbundling” their apps. The term unbundling in the app-world refers to the process of breaking up an app into smaller apps – “mini-apps”. Most companies do this to provide a more streamlined user experience. ...
