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“BI for the other 80 percent” at Information Management

April 6, 2015 by Ted Cuzzillo

How can business survive without data? Well, 80 percent of eligible users, according to most surveys, do seem to go without. The industry salivates in anticipation of someday colonizing that territory, and it shudders in frustration because they haven’t done it yet.

That topic came up last summer at the annual Pacific Northwest BI Summit. I’ve written here before about the session led by industry icon Claudia Imhoff and IBM vice president Harriet Fryman. Now I’ve published a column about it to a bigger audience at Information Management.

The column offers a strategy: storytelling. Humans are wired for it. The industry might as well take advantage.

The trick is to learn how to do it. Or even before that, the trick might be to accept storytelling as legitimate business practice. Though it’s widely practiced in the C-suites, those below them, the middle managers — so prone to insecurity — seem queasy about it.

See the Information Management column here.

Filed Under: BI industry, storytelling Tagged With: analytics, Claudia Imhoff, Harriet Fryman, in media, Information Management, Pacific Northwest BI Summit, storytelling 1 Comment

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  1. Dan Murray says

    April 6, 2015 at 2:13 am

    Yes…but the storytelling needs some meat. Discovery of novel, timely and actionable facts. The weeks to months response times of most stack tools just doesn’t cut it. And, the other 80% can’t afford them.

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