Killing the Productivity Killer:
What to do when manual, time-consuming business reporting has you under water
As professional business analysts who want to be responsive to our internal customers, oftentimes our best intentions can actually prevent us from being successful. When manually-intensive, time-consuming report generation has become a large part of our workload at the expense of value-added deliverables and strategic business support, productivity and quality suffer. If this situation sounds familiar, please take a look at our position paper on a support model that directly addresses this common problem.
Making More with Less:
How to meet ever-growing performance reporting expectations in a tight budget environment
The ever-changing need for performance reporting data can be driven by many factors—competitive requirements, analytic ‘blind spots,’ high-paced growth, acquisitions, divestitures, downsizing
and many others. Our experience tells us that no matter what’s driving the need, managers who have a business analysis / performance reporting role share a common predicament: they are expected to provide better, faster, more relevant data, and more often than not without incremental staff or an IT solution to do so. In this paper we explore ways to deal with this dilemma.
Why Most Outsourcings Fail:
What they don’t tell you up front
The popularity of outsourcing activity to offshore delivery locations has skyrocketed during the past decade as business managers seek to increase efficiencies by lowering transactional costs and centralizing business functions. Experience, however, tells us that the cost efficiencies touted by outsourcing firms also bring with them a host of problems and hidden costs.