Strategy and Comms

Build a Reporting and Analytics Strategy

Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.

1. Establish Business Vision and Understand the Current BI Landscape

The Purpose

Document overall business vision, mission, and key objectives; assemble project team.
Collect in-depth information around current BI usage and BI user perception.
Create requirements gathering principles and gather requirements for a BI platform.

Key Benefits Achieved

Increased IT–business alignment by using the business context as the project starting point
Identified project sponsor and project team
Detailed understanding of trends in BI usage and BI perception of consumers
Refreshed requirements for a BI solution

Activities


Gather key business information (overall mission, goals, objectives, drivers).
Establish a high-level ROI.
Identify ideal candidates for carrying out a BI project.
Undertake BI usage analyses, BI user perception survey, and a BI artifact inventory.
Develop requirements gathering principles and approaches.
Gather and organize BI requirements

Outputs

Articulated business context that will guide BI strategy development.
ROI for refreshing the BI strategy.
BI project team
Comprehensive summary of current BI usage that has quantitative and qualitative perspectives.
BI requirements are confirmed

 2. Evaluate Current BI Maturity and Identify the BI Patterns for the Future State
The Purpose

Document overall business vision, mission, and key objectives; assemble project team.
Collect in-depth information around current BI usage and BI user perception.
Create requirements gathering principles and gather requirements for a BI platform.
  Key Benefits Achieved

Increased IT–business alignment by using the business context as the project starting point
Identified project sponsor and project team
Detailed understanding of trends in BI usage and BI perception of consumers
Refreshed requirements for a BI solution

Activities

Perform BI SWOT analyses.
Assess current state of the BI practice and review results.
Create guiding principles for the future BI practice.
Identify desired BI patterns and the associated BI functionalities/requirements.
Define the future state of the BI practice.
Establish the critical success factors for the future BI, identify potential risks, and create a mitigation plan.

   

Outputs

Exchange migration strategy
Current state of BI practice is documented from multiple perspectives
Guiding principles for future BI practice are established, along with the desired BI patterns linked to functional requirements
Future BI practice is defined
Critical success factors, potential risks, and a risk mitigation plan are defined

3. Build Improvement Initiatives and Create a BI Development Roadmap

The Purpose

Build overall BI improvement initiatives and create a BI improvement roadmap.
Identify supplementary initiatives for enhancing your BI program.

 

Key Benefits Achieved

Defined roadmap composed of robust improvement initiatives

Activities

Create BI improvement initiatives based on outputs from phase 1 and 2 activities.
Build an improvement roadmap.
Build an improvement roadmap.
Create an governance policy.
Create a plan for a BI ambassador network.

  Outputs

Comprehensive BI initiatives placed on an improvement roadmap
governance policy is created
Internal BI ambassadors are identified

 

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Our Covered Services

Design
Design

Design Sprints.
Data Architecture Design.
Report Design.
Creative production.
Modelling.

Develop
Develop

ETL
Data Warehousing
Data Lakes
Machine Learning
Intelligent Reporting

Deploy
Deploy

Test
Deploy
Review
Revise
Maintain

Ongoing Support
Ongoing Support

Monitor
Examine and Improve
Training
Best Practice
Guidnace

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