why bi projects fail and what to do about it
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Business Intelligence is about changing the business, not implementing technology. Here's a review of what typically goes wrong in analytics projects, and what to do about it.Full PPT available at timoelliott.com.TRANSCRIPT
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WHY BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PROJECTS FAILAnd What To Do About ItTimo Elliott, Senior Director Strategic [email protected]
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INTRODUCTION
It’s not only about knowing how to climb…
You also have to know how not to fall off
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BI Improves Business Performance
Source: Intelligent Enterprise Survey, 2008
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Barriers to Deployment
Integration
Ease of use
No clear ROI
Data quality
Cost of licenses
Cost of training
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IT Underestimates User Difficulties…
Difficult to find information
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Executives Executives
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(credibility) gapBase: 406 U.S. IT Executives, 675 Business ExecutivesSource: BusinessWeek Research Services
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…And Underestimates Value Of BI To The Business
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How successful do you consider your BI deployment?
How much has BI contributed to your company’s performance?
The percentage of business users seeing the business impact as significant is 15% higher than the percentage of IT professionals saying the impact on company performance has been significant
Business gap
Source: Successful Business Intelligence, Cindi Howson
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Timo’s Law of BI
“Business people will ALWAYS be dissatisfied with their information systems”
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1. Changing the Business
2. People, Not Technology
3. Process, Not Project
4. Value, Not Cost
5. Insight, Not Data
6. Pragmatism, Not Rigid Process
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CHANGING THE BUSINESS
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Aim High
Not “implement software”
Not “keep the business happy”
Aim to transform the way the business works
Paint the vision
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“Follow the Money”
Track information to its final destination in any system
Why is it being used
What might change as a result
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Aim For 100% Deployment
Target all uses and users
“To be successful with BI, you need to be thinking about deploying it to 100% of your employees as well as beyond organizational boundaries to customers and suppliers” — Cindi Howson
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Source: Successful Business Intelligence, Cindi Howson
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PEOPLE, NOT TECHNOLOGY
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People Skills Make or Break BI Projects
Investment Historical Determinant of Success
People 2% 20%Process 2% 15%
Organization 2% 10%
Culture 1% 20%
Leadership 1% 10%
Data 10% 15%
Technology 82% 10%
75% of success determined by things OTHER than data and technology
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IT / Business Relationship
Trust and respect
Business Person Archetype IT Professional Archetype
Extrovert Introvert
Sociable Solitary
Freewheeling Methodical, systematic,disciplined
Risk-taking Risk-averse
Prefers face-to-face meeting Minimal face-to-face communication, email and instant messaging is fine
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“I tried being reasonable —I didn’t like it”
Dirty Harry
Tough Love
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Choose Your Users Carefully
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User Adoption
8-28%
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User Adoption
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Common User Adoption Issues
Training for IT
Training on data
Continued training
Best practice
Culture
Expectation setting
Ease of use
“Even if an application is intuitive enough to be usable without instruction, any related process or culture changes should be driven home with at least a quick tutorial.”
“What dooms IT projects” August 31, 2005
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Congratulations! You’re in Marketing!
EvangelizePromote early, promote oftenName the systemFind successes, keep
explaining the valueHighly visible dashboards Internal seminarsNewslettersTrophies for best projects
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Evangelizing
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Evangelizing
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Evangelizing
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Stories Are Good For Business
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Know Thyselfγνῶθι σεαυτόν
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Information Culture
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Information Culture
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Information Culture
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Failure ModeratelySuccessful
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Gut-FeelFact-Based
Source: Successful Business Intelligence — Cindi Howson
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Process, Not Project
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BI is Designed for Change
START
FINISH
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BI Methodology
IT
Business
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Align With Business Processes
TriageAssessmentand Entry
PatientRegistration
Patient Statusand Room Assigned
Nurse ExamIndicator Changed
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PatientDischarged
Patient Leaves ED
EDIM ReportsCreated/Printed
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Applications
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BI Competency Center
Store, maintain, integrate dataImplement changes
Summarize and analyzeDiscover and explore
Link to corporate strategyAlter processesPrioritize and set expectations
Gather requirementsEvangelizeMonitor satisfaction
Interpret resultsDevelop alternatives
Identify dataExtract dataValidate data Engineering skills
Analysis skills Relationship skills
Leadership skills
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Incentives and Value
Tragedy of the commons
Internal pricing
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Active usage
Satisfaction
New requests
Standard reports
Applications
Service
Time
BICC Report Card
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VALUE, NOT COST
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What’s the ROI?
BI ROI
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ROI is Hard to Know in Advance
“One of the key contributors to poor IT investment performance is an unbalanced approach taken by executives at the project approval stage.
Too often, the overriding emphasis is on quick payback or demands for the return on investment (ROI) to be demonstrated in financial terms.”
Gartner, “Total Value of Opportunity — The Real Measure for BI”
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Business People Have Short Memories
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BI is Becoming Mission-Critical
“Many warehouses are now a risk to mission-critical systems that rely on them for data”
Gartner, Key Issues for Delivering a Data Warehouse Project, 2008:
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Finding Value
4% Technology-related benefits
42% Productivity-related benefits
54% Business process
enhancements
Previous projects
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Finding Value
Doing things FASTER
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Finding Value
Minimizing RISK
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Align With the Goals Of the Organization
Link BI goals to what executives care about
Source: Accenture
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Sales Techniques
Techniques for understanding executive needs
Providing answers to problems, not technology infrastructures
Getting your projects to “top of mind”
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Turn Information into a Profit Center
“Our extranet produced $60M in incremental sales in the first year.”
Don Stoller, Owens & Minor
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Profitability: a Foundation For Strategic BI
“I don’t care about profitability”
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Play on Doubt
Start asking questions about the numbers that drive the business
“You don’t know?!”
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INSIGHT, NOT DATA
101011011101001011101011010111010110101011001011010101
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Data Integration
“This is the aspect that most businesses underestimate drastically — often by 100 percent or more.”
Gartner
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Lack of Trust
43% of users say they’re not sure if internal information is accurate
77% said bad decisions had been made because of lack of information
5 out of 4 people don’t believe statistics in presentations
Business Week study, 2005
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© SAP 2009 / Page 58
“Poor-quality customer data costs U.S. businesses $611 billion a year. Yet nearly half of the companies surveyed admit they have no plans to improve data quality”
The Data Warehousing Institute study
Dater Qwality
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Data Profiling
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Justifying Data Quality
Call it Data Governance
Risk, Productivity
Time Spent on Data Quality
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Data Lineage
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Go Faster
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Faster = Higher Business Value
Source: DM Direct, Nigel Pendse, March 2006
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Data Misuse and Interpretation
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FLEXIBLE PRAGMATISM, NOTRIGID PROCESSES
“No plan survives first contact with the enemy”
Claus von Clausewitz
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Finding An Executive Sponsor
Track record of IT success
Evangelism
Company goals
His / her career
Likely that sponsor will change:build broad base of support
Why Should I Care?
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Staying Zen
Do “less”
Keep it simple
Clean up
BICC efficiencies
IT dashboards
Standardize
SOA / Web Services
SaaS
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BI Standardization Calculator
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Succeeding Despite Adversity
Keep the project up to speed
Structure the project into smaller ones
Ensure alignment at all times
Admit problems fast
Stick with it!
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CONCLUSION
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Selected References
“Competing on Analytics” and “Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results” by Thomas Davenport
“Successful Business Intelligence: Secrets to Making BI a Killer App” by Cindi Howson
“Business Intelligence Competency Centers: A Team Approach to Maximizing Competitive Advantage” by Gloria J. Miller et. Al.
“Business Intelligence: The Savvy Manager's Guide” by David Loshin
TDWI Best Practices Report 2008: “Pervasive Business Intelligence: Techniques and Technologies to Deploy BI on an Enterprise Scale”
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Conclusion
BI is not (only) aboutTechnologyProjectsCostDataPlans
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Thank You And Good Luck!
Timo Elliott
Senior Director, Strategic Marketing
www.timoelliott.com
Twitter/timoelliott
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Respect
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Mission-Critical
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Performance Management
“Often we measure the wrong things, in the wrong ways and frequently we measure too much”
Andy Neely, Cranfieldschool of management
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Staying Zen
Do “less”
Keep it simple
Clean up
BICC efficiencies
IT dashboards
Standardize
SOA / Web Services
SaaS
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Staying Zen Getting the time and money
Do “less”
Clean up
BICC efficiencies
IT dashboards
Standardize
SOA / Web Services
SaaS
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Succeeding Despite Adversity
Keep the project up to speed
Structure the project into smaller ones
Ensure alignment at all times
Admit problems fast
Stick with it!
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High performing companies are 50% more likely to use analytic information strategically
33%
23%
77%
40%
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65%
8%
23%
Have significant decision-support/analytical capabilities
Value Analytical insights to a very large extent
Have above average analytical capability within industry
Use analytics across their entire organization
Source: Competing on Analytics, Thomas Davenport
Competitive Edge is Gained With Analytics
Low Performers
High Performers
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AVOIDING THE BUDGETING GAME
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CFO and IT relationship?
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Process, Not Project
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WHY BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PROJECTS FAILAnd What To Do About ItTimo Elliott, Senior Director BI [email protected]