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Business Intelligence--What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
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CURRENT ISSUES
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8 / 1988 |
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Herbert E. Meyer
Herbert E. Meyer, a former vice chairman of the National
Intelligence Council who reported directly to the director of
Central Intelligence, is now a consultant and lecturer on
intelligence. His new book, Real World Intelligence, provides
an in-depth profile of what business intelligence is and how
it works. |
Few things in life are as frustrating as trying to do a job around the house without the right tool. You struggle to fix a faucet, replace a light switch, or install a set of shelves--and what seemed to be a simple chore turns out to be a lengthy, miserable experience that ends with a trip to the corner store for iodine and bandages. Finally admitting failure, you give up and call in a professional, who arrives and completes the job in minutes. Watching him work, you quickly see the key to his success: not so much his expertise, but rather his ability to reach into a truck, or satchel, and pull out the one crucial thing that you didn't have when you needed it--precisely the right tool.
It is just the same in business. The difference between failure and success often lies not so much in expertise, but rather in having access to precisely the right management tool to do the job at hand.
Today a remarkable new management tool is being installed at the very best companies throughout the world. It is a tool designed to organize information, and thus it is a tool of uncommon power and flexibility. For in today's business environment, the ability to organize information isn't merely desirable; it is essential. After all, today's environment is complex, multinational, fast-paced, and information-driven. It is an environment whose dominant force is change itself.
To compete successfully in this sort of an environment, what any enterprise--from a giant multinational company to a small start-up venture--needs is a mechanism, or a management tool, that can organize information for the unique decision-making needs of that particular
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