Peter James Thomas

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A more appropriate metaphor for business intelligence projects

A traditional metaphor for IT projectsIT people are familiar with a number…

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The Top Business Issues facing CIOs / IT Directors – Results

Back in January, in collaboration with Chase Zander, I started a process…

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Is outsourcing business intelligence a good idea?

IntroductionThe phrase IT outsourcing tends to provoke strong reactions. People either embrace…

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“Gartner sees a big discrepancy between BI expectations and realities” – Intelligent Enterprise

 Doug Henschen at Intelligent Enterprise reports from the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit…

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Trends in Business Intelligence

This year, as in every year since the phrase “Business Intelligence” first…

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“Businesses Are Still Crazy for BI After All These Years” – CIO.com

Thomas Wailgum has written an article at CIO.com in which he talks…

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Measuring the benefits of Business Intelligence

This post is based on some comments that I made on an…

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“All that glisters is not gold” – some thoughts on dashboards

Yesterday I was tweeting quotes from Poe and blogging lines attributed to…

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The confluence of BI and change management

The tag-line of this blog brings together business intelligence and cultural transformation.…

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Thoughts on BI in the economic crisis from Finance Week

Another contribution to the debate about how BI will fare in the…

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