Insights

As a learning organisation, element61 stimulates its consultants to further build on their already vast experiences through investments in a personal development plan and a company-wide content development initiative. Through formal training, presence at industry events, networking, recommended reading and internet based information exchange, our consultants further dive into specialized topics of their own interest.

These result in what we call "Insights", own produced research content, often complemented by personal experiences and opinions. Below you can find our currently published list of Insights.

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The Economic Downturn: why Performance Management is Key to come out stronger

Introduction There is no escaping the harsh reality of the current economic climate. The crisis in the financial industry has lead to a worldwide recession or even depression and most macro-economists seem to agree that this will not end until 2010 at the earliest. Furthermore, the effects of this crisis will be felt for many years to come. While some sectors may be impacted more than others, it is clear that few industries or companies will escape its effects.
Toon Puissant Toon Puissant
Mercredi, 22 avril 2009
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BI Projects or BICC : Building the Dream Team

Introduction A Business Intelligence initiative may fail for many reasons: wrong technology, lack of sponsorship, poor data quality but one of the main reasons remains an incorrect project team. Too often the technology is seen as the unique challenge of the project and the human resources side is neglected while this is at least as important as the technical part.   One of the main objectives of a BI project is to support strategic decisions with facts to ensure that the organization's goals are achieved.
Mardi, 10 février 2009
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Data quality screening : an inside-out approach to improving data quality

Introduction Data quality is an often underestimated topic within data warehouse & business intelligence solutions.   Most companies are content in their belief that their data is good enough, although they have no factual basis for that belief. It takes facts to change their minds into a more correct awareness: ‘I had no idea the problem was that large'. An undertaking of improving data quality or getting insight into the data quality provided, should answer amongst other the following questions;
Mercredi, 7 janvier 2009
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Do's and Dont's of Implementing a Scorecard

Scorecarding, a powerful management instrument Introduction Scorecards are a very powerful management instrument. They are at the heart of a Performance Management architecture and they display some well-chosen metrics, including targets and their status, which allows the management to get an overview at a glance on how well their company is performing in the execution of its strategy and derived goals.
Kris Bouckaert Kris Bouckaert
Vendredi, 14 novembre 2008
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Open Source Extraction, Transformation & Loading software: ready for mainstage ?

Extraction, Transformation & Loading : often expensive ! ETL or the art of extracting, transforming and loading data is a key process in developing and maintaining a data warehouse, the foundation for sound Performance Management. It can however be an expensive process: not only because it requires a lot of resources and state of the art hardware, but also because the well known ETL-tools from IBM, Informatica, SAS or SAP/Business Objects do not come cheap.
Jeudi, 2 octobre 2008