Survey: Vision, leadership lead to BI success

The failure of business intelligence software projects is more often due to lack of leadership than technology. This dovetails with the results of a new Gartner survey, which found that a lack of ownership by the right executive often leads to a disconnect between the vision of senior management and the way a project is approached and accomplished. The survey, of 350 organizations, found that only 10 percent reported that their projects had a C-level executive sponsor with a direct link to the business. Forty percent said that their business intelligence projects were owned by lower-level business executives. That's not ideal, because that group tends to have tactical rather than strategic goals, which can hurt a project's success. To find out what caused a business intelligence project to fail, CIOs should ask themselves if they have given the organization a clear sense of what the company wants to get out of business intelligence. They should also ask whether they are really arming their employees with the right metrics so they can deliver valuable information.

Learn more about what it takes to succeed with business intelligence:
- read the article at TechTarget

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