Exploring the Higher Levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy

Expanding BI Analyst Horizons with AI In the landscape of Business Intelligence (BI), the integration of AI and advanced reasoning in the enterprise is essential for staying afloat. To fully integrate with AI, traditional BI analysts, accustomed to working with empirical data and generating reports, must now expand their skills to include deeper analysis, evaluation, … Continue reading Exploring the Higher Levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy

Levels of Pain – Refining the “Bad” side of the KPI Status

Everything we do towards achieving goals involves costs - sacrifice, investment (a positive way to look at it). We purposefully put things we already have (time, money, our career) to be consumed or at risk in the hope of achieving a goal. For the sake of this short blog, I'll call that investment "pain". I present this blog … Continue reading Levels of Pain – Refining the “Bad” side of the KPI Status

The Magic of the Whole is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts

Prelude If businesses were people, they would lumber about in a vaguely purposeful manner like zombies. That's due to the top-down, military-style hierarchies of modern corporations that result in integration of information only at the top and only to a limited extent below. Imagine Gepetto the CEO (external puppet master) of Pinocchio. Pinocchio is managed through strings from … Continue reading The Magic of the Whole is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts

The Effect Correlation Score for KPIs

This content discusses the importance of aligning enterprise efforts with goals through proper performance management and strategies. It introduces the concept of an "Effect Correlation Score" (ECS) to validate the validity of efforts and KPI statuses in a constantly changing, competitive world. The ECS measures the correlation between a cause and its intended effect and is a crucial aspect of Performance Management planning. It warns against blindly pursuing good KPI statuses without considering ongoing changes and correlations, and highlights the complex nature of cause-and-effect relationships within strategies. The post proposes the implementation of ECS in Performance Management to validate relationships and ensure their continued relevance.

Bridging Predictive Analytics and Performance Management

Update note on June 10, 2023: This blog is very old and much has changed since 2010. Performance Point is no longer a thing, Predictive Analytics is now Machine Learning. However, the main message about the importance of the Strategy Map still stands. The notion of a Strategy Map as the primary BI object of … Continue reading Bridging Predictive Analytics and Performance Management