Whitby Partners - Driving Value from Business Intelligence

Information is a strategic asset" "Information is the life blood running through our organisation". One would need to have led a very sheltered life in business not have heard these or similar sayings. Yet what do we do to help people understand this "strategic asset"? Is there any training? Is it part of a management development program? Organisations that invest multi-millions in business intelligence systems invest little or nothing in educating their employees on the value of information.

"Value of Information" Workshops
We have developed a workshop and methodology to help an organisation and its people have a broader understanding of the value of the information within it. How might it be turned into intelligence? How might that intelligence be applied to bringing benefit to the business and the challenges involved in the process?

We cover:

The types of business benefit
The types of information in an organisation and the interaction between them including:

Core Information Assets
KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and key facts
Time periods
Extremes
Coverage

We also address the challenge of data scope, data quality and analytical data models.

The workshops are business focused, but can be delivered to technical communities.

A Value of Information workshop can be used as a catalyst for an organisation to build performance measures such as KPIs, as a vehicle to stress test KPIs or as a general vehicle to improve the awareness of the value of information within the audience.