BI Strategy
A strategy is a high-level set of directions that articulate how the organization will achieve its BI objectives. This service offering focuses on:
Initiative Assessment
At an introductory level it is important to clarify the drive to incorporate BI strategies into the business. This process ensures that the implementation of BI into the business remains as cohesive, productive, and cost-effective as possible for developers and consumers.
Capabilities Assessment
Part of a successful BI strategy development is ascertaining the proposed practices and software solutions are in keeping with the existing skill set of internal staff. This permits prompt and economical solutions to new reporting requirements and ensures a sustainable, dynamic reporting environment.
Future State Development Workshops
Realisation of key issues that confront business, both today and in the future, are brought to the forefront with proven techniques and awareness of technological advances and trends. Corporate awareness of these items is central to strategic development and the future of your corporation.
Governance Strategy
The development of governance strategy implements systems to monitor and record what is going on with your BI Strategy, takes steps to ensure compliance with agreed policies, and provides for corrective action in cases where the rules have been ignored or misconstrued.
Values
A clear definition of the core business values is paramount to a successful BI strategy. Implementation that accommodates these values will ensure that the interests of all concerned parties are upheld in line with corporate standards.
Guiding Principles
Establishment of guiding principles within a BI deployment strategy enables a precise method of maintaining a client's major considerations in the project. By referring continually to the guiding principles they may be installed and upheld throughout the strategic development and practical application stages. These principles will be evident on the formulation of the ultimate architecture.
Blueprints
Strategic blueprints are a valuable tool that ensures the organisational vision is maintained and project success is achieved. mhm's vast experience and qualifications in developing organisational blueprints offers the ability to maintain focus on organizational goals and cost effectiveness of desired project outcomes.
Process Model
Understanding the broadly defined schematics and presenting these in the format of a process model verifies that all participants and stakeholders are included in the process. The process model can also identify areas of improvement in the business process to be incorporated into the BI Strategy.
Reference Architecture
Clearly establishing a Reference Architecture enables greater detail of the project strategy. Expansion and elaboration at this stage may include the following;
· A data integration tool that enables the extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) of data from sources in an organization.
· Details of the relational database that will integrate various data types to offer a common repository.
· The most appropriate online analytical processing (OLAP) engine(s) to offer optimal administrative and analytical capabilities.
· Graphical user interface (GUI) that will provide users across the organization the ability to access the OLAP database. This is the ‘window' to the business intelligence of the organisation and must provide data access that is prompt and easy to use, and provide proactive alerts to pre-defined key performance indicators (KPIs).
Organisational Blueprint
Details the integration of the strategy into the organisation to identify services, personnel, and additional resources required within the organization. Highlighting areas that may need additional consideration to ensure a successful BI implementation.
Roadmap Development
Application of resources, including hardware, software, and personnel, to a chronological project order.
Value Proposition and Business Case Development
Addresses the building of the value proposition and business case to move beyond the strategy to implementation.
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