BI Storyboards

"Management Teams can become swamped with information. Even where the BI is good, something extra is often required to bring teams speedily to a common and joined up view of where the business is and the challenges it faces."

Using our "BI Storyboarding" 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 storyboards 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 insight 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