New Frontiers in Business Intelligence

The Ultimate Waste Reduction Technique - Produce Only What Is Already Sold!

By Nari Kannan on January 7, 2009 7:01 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

The Ultimate Waste Reduction Technique to increase your profits and revenues is to only produce what is already sold! It is not always possible. Current management techniques always recommend forecasting demand, planning production backwards from the day the finished goods... Read More..

Squeezing Waste Out in Every Way!

By Nari Kannan on December 30, 2008 3:41 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Today I was watching the Nightly Business Report news piece about Japan Air Lines (JAL) effort on squeezing out waste from every aspect of their operations. Here it is - Japan Streamlines its Fuel Usage. Very interesting piece that holds... Read More..

Business Process Improvement Can Become a National Competency

By Nari Kannan on December 20, 2008 6:20 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

You hear the words "It's a Services Economy" bandied about with abandon in newspapers, nd by experts in the media. With the recent downturn in the Global Economy, nd many countries realizing that Manufacturing is not something you can just... Read More..

The Sad Story of Companies That Ignored Continuous Process Improvement

By Nari Kannan on December 8, 2008 10:26 AM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Almost two years ago, I wrote a blog entry in another blog about how Toyota was steadily stealing market share from the Big 3 American Automakers, GM, Ford and Chrysler - The Cost of Lip Service. It is sad to see... Read More..

When does SaaS Work and When not?

By Nari Kannan on November 24, 2008 10:04 AM 1 0 Vote 0 Votes

Software as a Service (SaaS) is often touted as the latest and greatest thing since sliced bread and the software industry is dead! Not quite so fast! In my own actual experiences I have found a number of truths that anybody... Read More..

Open Source Business Intelligence in Tough Times

By Nari Kannan on November 14, 2008 2:29 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Tough times have always engendered sudden growth spurts of Open Source Software. The last time it occurred was soon after the Dot Com bust. This was the time when a lot of Open Source software like Linux and Java related... Read More..

Master Data Management (MDM), Data Warehousing (DW) and Complex Event Management (CEP) - Hot Technologies!

By Nari Kannan on November 6, 2008 6:08 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

What are the Hot technologies, even when the economy is looking very weak, you hear rumors and news of layoffs in the Technology and IT Users Spaces? They seem to be Master Data Managament (MDM), Data Warehousing and Complex Event... Read More..

How Large Do Process Data Warehouses Get?

By Nari Kannan on October 30, 2008 6:35 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

When measuring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of Business Processes, the size of the data warehouse you are creating are surprisingly tiny when compared to data warehouses that store sales data. In that sense, they are very similar to data warehouses... Read More..

Heat Maps provide a Hot Way to Visualize Business Intelligence

By Nari Kannan on October 27, 2008 3:25 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

I have always been completely bowled over by how well a single Visualization can show you some much of information that you may not be able to see very easily even if you have gigabytes of data in digital form!... Read More..

Business Process Outsourcing and Business Process Management

By Nari Kannan on October 20, 2008 7:53 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes

Dennis Byron in another blog, raises and discusses well, the differences between Business Process Management (BPM) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO). http://www.bpminaction.com/blog/2008/10/bpm_in_bpo_what_business_proce_1.php In our company, we work closely with many Business Process Outsourcing companies, especially Offshore companies. I have observed... Read More..

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