Comments on: Culturing BI projects http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2006/08/culturing-bi-projects/ Andy Hayler, noted industry expert and founder of Kalido, gives his view on developments in the enterprise software market. Issues covered include data warehousing, master data management, business intelligence and corporate performance management. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:25:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Ad http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2006/08/culturing-bi-projects/#comment-330 Mon, 04 Sep 2006 09:40:11 +0000 http://andyonenterprisesoftware.com/2006/08/culturing-bi-projects/#comment-330 "In my view such company cultural issues are very important to consider when carrying out enterprise BI projects, and are often ignored by external consultants or systems integrators who blindly follow what is in the project methodology handbook." In my experience (some 18 years in BI with quite a large SI, this might be true, but it is maybe even more true for every "new kid on the management block" of the customer especially when the new kid (and that might be on quite a senior level) is on corporate center. In such a case you can - as an external consultant - talk form here to eternity about corporate culture (probably you've seen the company struggling for a number of years). And the answer is too often "Yes, but that was how we did it in the past, but now we are going to change things in my way" and what then??????? “In my view such company cultural issues are very important to consider when carrying out enterprise BI projects, and are often ignored by external consultants or systems integrators who blindly follow what is in the project methodology handbook.”

In my experience (some 18 years in BI with quite a large SI, this might be true, but it is maybe even more true for every “new kid on the management block” of the customer especially when the new kid (and that might be on quite a senior level) is on corporate center. In such a case you can - as an external consultant - talk form here to eternity about corporate culture (probably you’ve seen the company struggling for a number of years). And the answer is too often “Yes, but that was how we did it in the past, but now we are going to change things in my way” and what then???????

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