How Small Businesses Leverage Business Intelligence
Think of business Intelligence as really smart reporting for your business operations. It provides a clear data-driven summary of how your organization is performing using things like key performance indicators to define success and failure. Here are 9 ways small businesses can use BI.
9 Opportunities for Selling BI to the SMB
- Define business unit KPIs and embed those into company strategy
- Lose the dependence on spreadsheets
- Start looking at meta-data management tools
- Set up cross-functional teams to facilitate BI deployment
- Architect usage monitoring into BI systems
- Invest in formal training
- Implement customer-facing dashboards
- Establish a BI
- Re-evaluate BI software licensing, deployment and service options
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