BI Project Skills

BI Skill Categories

BI skill categories include:

Data Management – need is directly proportional to number of subject areas you are integrating on Data Warehouse. This is quite different from other application development which concentrate more on the user front end – the dashboards etc and BI controls.

Application Delivery - there are a number of ways that this can be done depending upon the organisations current IT infrastructure and desktop capability.

Program Alignment – Program of Management, alignment, change management.
Lot of IT managers mistakenly believe that all they need is a couple of technical guys and they are done. BI projects come to their knees thorugh this belief. This is NOT a BI project – we just have an intellectual team of data loading.

Change Mangement - In any organisation, there are a lot of inhibitors to growth and to propel change. BI Programs are so linked to businesses that they have the ability to accelerate change. This may surprise some organisations, and those who are not ready for the accelerated rate of change may find the program outcomes overwhelming, and therefore resist adoptiong.

Therefore the businesses have to embrace this rate of change before they will embrace BI.

Planning for business intelligence must include headcount and additional skillset for the BI team.

Also See: BI Program Guidelines

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