New Course

The new course started today....Business Intelligence. I wonder if that's an oxymoron? The topics that each student is expected to decipher and discuss (online with the class and the professors) are:

1.  Using the pyramid of abstraction (Fig 1.1, pg 4) how does your organization effectively exploit its data?

2.  How do you make the business case that BI requires not only the right data and processes but the right people?

3.  You have often heard, ‘the healthcare industry is data rich and knowledge poor’. Relate a single contemporary issue related to this statement using BI concepts and language.

4.  What are the 3 top KPIs that drive your work each day?

I suppose I need to get the reading done so I can discuss these questions intelligently.