tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1495890500563742227.post4728948763598199458..comments2023-07-15T03:43:59.396-04:00Comments on Business Intelligence: Gartner BI Summit Message: Users and IT must align?Howard Dresnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12585962559495139401noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1495890500563742227.post-73683365981904652012010-05-07T13:31:40.897-04:002010-05-07T13:31:40.897-04:00It is indeed!
My bias is that intermediaries wor...It is indeed! <br /><br />My bias is that intermediaries work less well than developing a common understanding within the two groups.<br /><br />Best,<br /><br />HowardHoward Dresnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12585962559495139401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1495890500563742227.post-84997173338202438512010-05-04T10:51:14.863-04:002010-05-04T10:51:14.863-04:00Hi Howard,
This is the thorniest of BI issues. Wa...Hi Howard,<br /><br />This is the thorniest of BI issues. Wayne Eckerson also wrote about this issue last week, dividing the world into "Red" people (IT) and "Blue" people (business). The ones to act as intermediares are the "Purple" people, who can understand each other's language. I've blogged about his and your post here: https://www-950.ibm.com/blogs/performanceperspectives/entry/the_color_purple29?lang=en_usDelaney Turnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01859618782895774080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1495890500563742227.post-84161731439469553382010-04-22T05:28:49.017-04:002010-04-22T05:28:49.017-04:00Howard,
Your observations are very pertinent.
A...Howard,<br /><br />Your observations are very pertinent. <br /><br />At a number of times in my career I have been labelled as one of the "rogues", but this is not from a deliberate desire to be a non-conformer, but typically because I have had a genuine business need to fulfil. This need typically required data and processing which indicates an IT solution. However, when trying to follow the "official" route of requesting IT to deliver a solution, you can be presented with many barriers to getting any kind of official solution - not on the IT plan, may not use the current standard IT tools, not invented here, have not completed the correct paperwork (despite there being no published standard to comply with), perception of insufficient payback etc.<br /><br />Most business managers when presented with all these obstacles and still having a requirement for a business solution will be tempted to develop a local, "rogue" solution. Who wouldn't?<br /><br />The challenge for organisations is:<br />* To break down some of the bureaucratic barriers<br />* To engage with business managers and users to better understand their requirements<br />* To allow easier access to resources to enable quick solutions<br />* To sanction the development of local solutions, with certain controls, to allow ideas to be tested<br /><br />Such an approach should allow business to be more responsive to changed needs, for IT to better understand the true demand for their services and for the rest of the business to better understand the constraints that IT departments have to work within.<br /><br />Unfortunately, there may be some people who still will not conform to such approaches, we label these as Data Anarchists on our recent blog posts about the "Data Zoo". For such people, you may need to assess carefully the action needed to introduce more control and standardisation.<br /><br /><br />JulianAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com