Dashboards don’t make decisions – people do. And the person who must defend the numbers to the board and the street is your Chief Financial Officer (CFO). If your BI program can’t deliver the same answer, everywhere, every time – plus the audit trail behind each chart – you don’t have a
Complex enterprises aren’t struggling due to a lack of data or tools. They’re struggling – quietly, increasingly – because the old ideal of a “single source of truth” is breaking down. For years, BI teams chased one clean, centralized repository of data for all decisions. In theory, everyone would
Your peers in business intelligence are facing a contradiction. Massive volumes of data are pouring into dashboards, yet the people making decisions are overwhelmed. What used to be a data analyst’s careful query is now an automated suggestion; what used to be a meeting between analysts and
For years, companies have poured resources into business intelligence platforms, convinced that better dashboards would unlock better decision-making. But the uncomfortable truth is that BI doesn’t fail because of technology. It fails because of the people using it. Behind every metric, KPI, or
When enterprise teams discuss improving their business intelligence, the conversation often begins with tools: upgrading dashboards, layering predictive models, and automating reports. But beneath the surface of this endless stack expansion lies an issue more fundamental than any technical gap.
Everyone claims to be data-driven. From enterprise resource planning exports and customer relationship management dashboards to ESG metrics and sales forecasts—Business Intelligence teams are swimming in data. But in reality, most BI initiatives struggle because people can’t align fast enough to
