Posts Tagged ‘thought leadership’

The most effective approach to establishing a center of excellence within an organization is to start on a smaller scale, with very specific and very realistic goals defined. A famous saying can be applied here “it is not a destination, but rather a journey…” This will be true of every successful CoE imitative. Mistakes and […]

    An organizations center of excellence may begin as an “informal body” comprised of experienced and knowledgeable personnel from the practice, but over time, the COE should get additional powers on the basis of noted contributions to successful projects and receive additional funding to expand the scope of its operations. The following are the […]

      For a long time relational models have supported the ability to create virtual tables known as “views” to provide a mechanism that allows developers to customize how their users can logically view data stored in base tables. There is a similar concept in Cognos TM1 known as “virtual cubes”. A virtual cube […]

Reengineering the Forecasting Process with Predictive Models Forecasts usually start as historical performance which is then reviewed and adjusted based upon anticipated events. More mature forecasting may also incorporate generally accepted business rules “programmed in” to help “drive” the data into a forecast. Over the years I’ve deployed uncountable applications which provide the ability to […]