Gartner Announces 3 Finalists for EMEA Business Intelligence Excellence Awards 2010 @ http://tinyurl.com/y8vgf6k GartnerBI

Business Intelligence in 2020!

When I asked your thoughts about Business Intelligence in 2020, I didn't expect that so many would participate via the multiple blogs, tweets and others. Some of you emailed me directly, some even called me!
 
You gave me some great predictions, which I've tried to summarize via a 4 min video @ http://tinyurl.com/ykvugkr

I hope you can find the debate useful - I'm going to be at the Gartner BI summit in London this week and will talk to people their about their predictions.

If you have any feedback or thought, please feel free to email me directly at bruno@brunoaziza.com.  Alternatively, you can also try to catch me at the event!

@nieuwbourg - merci de l'hospitalite. Super la visite du musee de l'informatique! A tres bientot! http://is.gd/7mFBg

How will we make decisions in 2020? Watch my video report from Paris @http://tinyurl.com/ykvugkr & come discuss @http://tinyurl.com/o89vep

Looking forward to the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit 2010 in London starting on Monday! DM @brunoaziza to meet gartnerbi

Interviewed Chris Weber, US Enterprise VP on how Microsoft salesforce uses Business Intelligence. See the video @ http://tinyurl.com/ybssfrj

Does social media make us more honest?
Why I think the answer might be "yes" @ http://tinyurl.com/ydmu9e8 WEF Davos

Does social media make us more honest?
Come discuss @ http://tinyurl.com/o89vep WEF Davos

Travelling to the best country to do business in, in the world...read about it on Forbes @ http://tinyurl.com/cxg5m3

If you couldn't attend my radio show live earlier this week, subscribe to the podcast link @ http://tinyurl.com/y8lwrnu

The Radio Show I'm hosting premieres this week, on Wed, 1/20 at 11am PST! Check out the video preview @ http://tinyurl.com/yhpcgjo

Featured on Seattle City and Press @ http://tinyurl.com/ygmrkwx Tune into the Untapped Insight Radio Show this week!

Steve Ballmer and I are on the page...literally...check out the Microsoft blog @ http://ping.fm/Dwm6k

Featured in news from Microsoft today @http://tinyurl.com/yd9cla4 - Come see for yourself tomorrow in New York @ 1:45 EST NRF10

Americans hungry for data according to U of Cal @http://tinyurl.com/y8pto7s - who wants 3.6 zettabytes - or 34 gigabytes of data a day?

Lego Group's Culture of Performance (NRF preview)

The recent economic crisis has reminded business leaders of "the basics" of business performance; developing a great strategy is not enough. All participants need to be able to execute the strategy and the organization needs to empower them to make the right decisions, better and faster. Doing so requires processes and systems that can adjust to market conditions. But more importantly, it requires that your organization's culture is geared for performance.

In my upcoming session at NRF this year, I will be joined by Henrik Amsinck, Lego Group Chief Information Officer and VP. I'm honored to share the stage with Henrik. Not only is Lego's story a great one to have the opportunity to tell, but Henrik embodies the spirit that drives the performance of this amazing company.

Every employee I have talked to leading up to this presentation shares the same passion for Lego, their products and their customers. Even talking on the phone, it's almost as if I could 'hear' the sparkle in their eye when they talked about Lego. Indeed, Lego has a strong culture of performance and it shows. In the first half of 2009 the company reported 20% results and outpaced the competition. Read a great coverage of Lego's story published by the Daily Telegraph this past December here.

However, as you will find out in our session, Lego didn't always have the stellar results I'm alluding to here. The cultural changes they have gone through allowed them to come back strong and equip themselves to gain market share when others were struggling. So - how did they do it? And how can your organization do the same?

While we will share the details at our session next week, I want to give you a taste of what you should expect. There are three key aspects of Lego's turnaround we can all learn from:

1) Commitment from the top: as we describe in Drive Business Performance, culture changes start at the top. A new leader often joins the organization with intentions to define new standards of performance; an approach that provides employees with the tools to be better informed and the expectations of better accountability. In our session on Tuesday, we will tell you how Lego helped its employees to expect and respect data-driven decision making.
2) Focus on the basics: too many organizations build processes, reports and dashboards without asking basic questions on the validity and general agreement employees have of the metrics that drive the business. On Tuesday, we will talk about how Lego focuses on a "language of performance" and how they determine what should be a global standard versus what should be uniquely defined for a locale.
3) Compete into the future: few organizations have implemented the type of information management system Lego has across structured, unstructured and social data. A core value of Lego's mission is connection with their customers. However, many of their customers are boys age 6-10. How do you think they connect with them and request their feedback?

The first 200 attendees will receive a complimentary, signed copy of my book, Drive Business Performance. Join us on Tuesday, 01/12/2010 from 1:45PM - 2:30PM in Room EXPO Hall, 3D04.

This session will be interactive and we will ask you to participate throughout. In fact, if you'd like to send out questions, join the discussion on the Culture of Performance LinkedIn group @ http://tinyurl.com/o89vep

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Bruno Aziza
Co-author, Drive Business Performance
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My site @ www.brunoaziza.com

References: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/re tailandconsumer/6825911/Lego-play-it-again.html

Should retailers boost forecast? Good WSJ article @ http://tinyurl.com/y9gszxu. Let's discuss @ my session http://tinyurl.com/ydju2oy NRF10

RedEye to NRF#10! See u @my Tues session on Culture of Performance. Qs u want us to answer @the session? Post @http://tinyurl.com/o89vep

Lego's CIO Henrik Amsinck and I to talk about Culture of Performance at Retail's BIG Show http://tinyurl.com/ydju2oy NRF10

Palladium announces our contribution to XPC, world’s largest and most advanced community for Strategy & PM @ http://tinyurl.com/yfckb6p

BI2020 What will Business Intelligence be like in 2020? Join the conversation @ http://tinyurl.com/o89vep