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Explosion of big data = innovation opportunities in biz intelligence; preparing for it is hugely difficult; start now #gartnerEXPO

Desperately entered contest to win iPad2. I lost. #gartnerEXPO

But I did win this in a separate contest to see who was the smartest person in the room. #gartnerEXPO yfrog.com/h8xv6mej

It was a big room. Trust me. With scores of

... intelligent people (stupid fat fingers)

Interview w/CEO and CIO of Visa Europe intrstng, hlrious. Great eg of strong biz-IT relationship (blogs.gartner.com/symposium-live…) #gartnerEXPO

To benchmark IT you need the enterprise context. Simply comparing mine to yours doesn't reveal anything useful #gartnerEXPO

Enterprise context comes from the biz strat and trends, leads to org objectives. Measure IT's contribution to achieving these #gartnerEXPO

Firms that are most successful at IT benchmarking are those that do best at defining and executing their biz strategy #gartnerEXPO

If you focus benchmarking on execution you're acting like a utility. If you focus it on outcomes you're acting like a partner #gartnerEXPO

Despite massive investment, the recent history of enterprise business intelligence isn't pretty #gartnerEXPO

What's the most common BI platform today?

Excel. It's ubiquity allows any biz unit to conduct its own BI initiatives but this often prevents development of clear, ent BI #gartnerEXPO

Best practice BI starts with identifying the Who, What, and How. Commit it to paper #gartnerEXPO

Who: BI competency center staffed by biz & IT. Don't have to be 100% dedicated, but should be a sig %. Support the biz analyst! Give tools.

What: collaborative decision making that's measured by metrics framework. Get ready for customer facing BI #gartnerEXPO

How: Use int and ext data. Leads to data explosion, use perf tools like in-mem computing. Make it cust frndly. Avoid single vendor lock in.

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