Comments on: Review of Tom Davenport’s "Competing on Analytics" http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2008/07/28/review-of-tom-davenports-competing-on-analytics/ "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Dorothy Parker Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:32:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jim http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2008/07/28/review-of-tom-davenports-competing-on-analytics/#comment-102823 Jim Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:01:34 +0000 http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2008/07/28/review-of-tom-davenports-competing-on-analytics/#comment-102823 I think the first step is to help make the process more visible. Especially for decisions that sort of meander along via disorganized email interaction. But even face-to-face decision meetings are hard to parse in terms of the connections between options, evidence, and arguments. What's been your experience with tools like bCisive in helping making these decision cases more visible? I think the first step is to help make the process more visible. Especially for decisions that sort of meander along via disorganized email interaction. But even face-to-face decision meetings are hard to parse in terms of the connections between options, evidence, and arguments.

What’s been your experience with tools like bCisive in helping making these decision cases more visible?

]]> By: Tim van Gelder http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2008/07/28/review-of-tom-davenports-competing-on-analytics/#comment-102821 Tim van Gelder Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:52:19 +0000 http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2008/07/28/review-of-tom-davenports-competing-on-analytics/#comment-102821 Interesting post... particularly (to me) your point about the need for "a systematic way to connect analytic capabilities to decision makers". BI suites always seem to stop short of the actual decision process itself. They deliver information, possibly insight, but even insight has to be reconfigured as argument or evidence if it is going to make a positive contribution to decision. So how do we go beyond displaying information and start organising it in the form of the case for (or against) some action? Interesting post… particularly (to me) your point about the need for “a systematic way to connect analytic capabilities to decision makers”. BI suites always seem to stop short of the actual decision process itself. They deliver information, possibly insight, but even insight has to be reconfigured as argument or evidence if it is going to make a positive contribution to decision. So how do we go beyond displaying information and start organising it in the form of the case for (or against) some action?

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