Build the Right Business Intelligence Plan: A Management's Guide to Creating a Plan That Maximizes Your Return on Business Intelligence

Collecting and reviewing data has been a part of decision making for thousands of years. Egyptian scribes recorded inventory for their masters using a stylus on a clay tablet. Today, one takes advantage of computers and business applications to do fundamentally the same thing on a larger scale. Unfortunately, the fervor for data collection regularly outpaces the ability to break it down and act upon it. In short, one needs to be as aggressive about managing the information and utilizing it to improve decision making as one is about collecting it. The remainder of this paper outlines a simple approach to creating a relevant business intelligence strategy and a tactical framework to build on.