Does anyone have an example presentation that helped to justify their BI Project. Would greatly appreciate any advice on how to get the executive on board. Saving Changes...
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Michael WoodProject Manager / Business Analyst / Business Process Improvement Guru| Independent ContractorGig Harbor, Wa, United States
Richard, what are some of the specifics that your BI initiative is trying to achieve? A year from now, how will the company be better off from implementing BI? Will profits be better? Marketshare improve? Employees happier and more productive? Customers more satisfied and loyal? In short, how will the stakeholders benefit from a BI initiative? Saving Changes...
Thanks for a response Micheal, yes our BI Initive is going to increase productivity, save money, and efficiently allow our users to access from their desktops, information which now must be ordered with anywhere from a two week to one month wait. I was just hoping there was some unobvious pie in the sky answers? Saving Changes...
Vijay SankaranDirector, Application Development| Ford Motor CompanyAnn Arbor, Mi, United States
Hi Richard,
I've done this on several occasions for different clients. Let me tell you that I can sympathize with your difficulty in having to show quantifiable benefits for your BI projects. Throughout the industry, people have had difficulty showing ROI on their BI projects. This is how I would approach it.
1) Manpower savings - can you reduce staff or reassign them based on there not being a "report building" team...
2) You speak of productivity increases - what will these people now be able to do which they were not able to do before? Other activities that they will now be able to perform because the BI system frees up time for them...
3) Processing costs - will the BI system stop costly mainframe cycles?
4) Reduced long term overhead costs - outsourcing costs if you get the reports generated by a third party as well as other administrative costs.
I would divide your presentation into two parts: direct benefits and indirect benefits. Your direct benefits will include those things that the BI system will help your organization with directly, while the indirect benefits will be efficiency related improvements.
I hope this helps - I'll try to dig up some presentations which I have used previously.
Sorry for the delayed response - I was in the process of moving.
