http://www.baselinemag.com Business Intelligence - RSS Feeds en-us Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:32:37 -0400 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:32:37 -0400 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:18:24 -0400 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Strategy-Execution-for-Enduring-Performance-819278/?kc=rss - Enterprises can achieve enduring high performance by creating an environment in which the development of strategic goals is reinforced by processes that educate, organize and align the enterprises activities with those goals. Are most organizations operated on this model? Is yours? Unfortunately,...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Strategy-Execution-for-Enduring-Performance-819278/?kc=rss Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:54:50 -0400 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Building-an-Agile-Organization/?kc=rss - Agile organizations have the processes and structures that enable them to know what is going on both internally and externally, as well as to provide the mechanisms needed to act quickly on that knowledge. Although some view technology as the main way to attain that state, evidence indicates that ...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Building-an-Agile-Organization/?kc=rss Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:44:14 -0500 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Analyze-This/?kc=rss - Many insurance firms are turning to technologies such as business intelligence (BI) and business analytics (BA), enterprise risk management and virtualization. Experts say these three technology areas are especially critical for success in todays insurance market. A subset of BA called predictive ...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Analyze-This/?kc=rss Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:01:55 -0500 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Driving-to-the-Future/?kc=rss - The stakes are enormous st1\:* Even veteran, global corporations face demise in the maelstrom of change. General Motors, just months after celebrating its one-hundredth birthday, announced that it was burning through cash at the rate of $2 billion a month and could not keep it going muc...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Driving-to-the-Future/?kc=rss Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:44:23 -0400 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Assessing-the-Business-Value-of-Technology/?kc=rss - Senior executives increasingly demand an understanding of how business technology can improve operations, enhance managers decision-making and place the organization in a strong position to compete. For many companies, the link between business-technology investment and business performance rema...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Assessing-the-Business-Value-of-Technology/?kc=rss Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:02:16 -0400 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Main-Street-Innovation/?kc=rss - As global corporations assess the impact of one of the worst financial meltdowns in history and feel pressure to retrench from anything new or risky, part of the solution might be looking toward a different source of innovation the small to medium-size enterprise, or SME. Whether youre running a...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Main-Street-Innovation/?kc=rss Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:56:36 -0400 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Living-on-Borrowed-Time/?kc=rss - The financial crisis has done a thorough job of weeding out companies that were extended beyond their means. Those who believed they were immune quickly learned that this tsunami was more than they could overcome. We who remain look in the mirror and wonder if were next. This economy makes times...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Living-on-Borrowed-Time/?kc=rss Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:18:20 -0400 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Financial-Meltdown-A-Management-Perspective/?kc=rss - After the meltdown on Wall Street, fingers are pointing in every direction. We are seeing yet another national feeding frenzy of recrimination. The lenders, the borrowers and the pundits all now say we should have seen it coming. The politicians have leapt in to solve a crisis they had a hand in c...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Financial-Meltdown-A-Management-Perspective/?kc=rss Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:18:36 -0400 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/The-BaselineBTM-500-Team/?kc=rss - The teams biographies follow: Jeffrey Bruckner Senior Vice President, Framework and Knowledge Architecture BTM Corporation Mr. Bruckner is responsible for knowledge and framework architecture at BTM Corporation. In this position, he focuses on continuous development of the BTM Management Fra...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/The-BaselineBTM-500-Team/?kc=rss Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:11:26 -0400 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Managing-Risk-from-a-Boards-Eye-View/?kc=rss - Intensified concerns about risk management, auditing and fraud detection, and corporate governance have sensitized boards and top management teams to adopt an even more active role in the oversight of business strategy and key enterprise activities. Significant regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxl...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Managing-Risk-from-a-Boards-Eye-View/?kc=rss Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:17:52 -0400 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Shaping-Your-Business-Strategy/?kc=rss - Determining business technologys organizational role is a key strategic governance decision that sets the tone for business technology management activities, such as the level of investment, the nature of the applications portfolio, and the type of metrics for evaluating and justifying investments...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Shaping-Your-Business-Strategy/?kc=rss Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:46:06 -0400 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Competition-From-Emerging-Markets/?kc=rss - Not that long ago, Americans cast a worrisome eye on Japan and saw a rising economic juggernaut that would conquer the world. Some of that did unfold: Japans automakers, for example, give U.S. car-makers serious competition. But something quite different is happening today in Japan and in nations...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Competition-From-Emerging-Markets/?kc=rss Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:35:58 -0400 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Using-SaaS-Project-Software-to-Drive-Growth-and-Value-A-Forbes-Media-Case-Study/?kc=rss - When I joined Forbes Media as CIO in 2007, we had little visibility into the portfolio of IT projects and no consistent process for selecting or completing projects. Our IT staff was handling 30 to 40 projects at a time, with a turnover of about 10 projects a month. Projects were managed and tracked...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Using-SaaS-Project-Software-to-Drive-Growth-and-Value-A-Forbes-Media-Case-Study/?kc=rss Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:12:55 -0400 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/The-Lessons-from-DARPA-Continue/?kc=rss - The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) celebrated its 50th anniversary in April of this year, and we should all take notice. The agency was created when Russias Sputnik touched off fear that the United States was falling behind in science and technology, and over the years DARPA ha...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/The-Lessons-from-DARPA-Continue/?kc=rss Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:26:31 -0400 http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Governing-an-Extended-Enterprise/?kc=rss - The concept of the “extended enterprise” is hardly new. The notion certainly picked up steam in the 1990s as global markets took on structure, and outsourcing and partnerships became an acceptable response. Today, however, the nature of “extended” has evolved into something heretofore unimaginab...]]> http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Business-Intelligence/Governing-an-Extended-Enterprise/?kc=rss