BI Storyboards - to join up decision making
Using our “BI Story Boarding” techniques we will work with you, using primarily existing data & BI, to provide compelling insights on specific, timely and critical issues for your business.
This is different from many traditional BI projects in that we will play an active hands-on role to help you develop appropriate story boards and land them in the business.
We help create a joined up view a team's BI, enabling them to quickly see the “wood for the trees”, revealing (sometimes hidden) truths and identifying the best way to express this to the broader business community.
Process
- Working with you to understand the business issue
- Data extraction from your own systems
- Analysing available external data
- Assembling or reassembling the data
- Creation of compelling trends, graphics, cockpits and short sharp commentary
- Making connections between the data across, and up and down, your business to infer root causes
- Piecing together the story, by assembling a logical sequence of numbers, pictures and insights and hence thought-processes in a highly visual manner
- Clear identification of business process pressure points for which operational action is needed
- Building a forward view
- Drawing the leadership towards an overall strategic conclusion using the resulting storyboard as an aid to fact-based decision making
Benefits
- Joined up views across the value chain
- Better “Line of Sight” visibility
- Improved teamwork
- Speedier delivery and reduced cost of BI by focusing on using what you've already got
- Resulting BI gets straight to the heart of the business issue