Professor Stijn Viaene elaborates on recent case based research into what makes project managers involved into Business Analytics projects successful. The major finding is that these project managers tend to focus on the execution part of the project...
In this video Professor Omar El Sawy and Professor Stijn Viaene explain how ICT can be a driver for business model innovation.
In 2003, Rob Carter, CIO of international express courier FedEx, launched the 'Six by Six' (6x6) IT transformation program: a major rationalization and centralization effort to improve FedEx's IT service delivery to its business partners. This teaching case deals with the 6x6 efforts made by the IT department for Europe, Middle East, Indian sub-continent and Africa (EMEA). The case focuses on two objectives of the 6x6 program: (a) creating a consistent IT environment, and (b) increasing delivery bandwidth to the business.
“How will companies create business benefits from business intelligence (BI) investments in the foreseeable future?” This was the central question in a research project conducted by Vlerick Management School, in association with SAS Institute and Enqio. By means of two separate focus group sessions, Vlerick researchers sounded out Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and BI Managers from various industries about the future of value creation from BI. In this article the authors synthesize what the participating CIOs and BI managers had on their minds when considering the future of value creation from Business Intelligence.
This case allows for an elaboration on the nature of competing on analytics, and an exploration of the Business Intelligence (BI) environment in support hereof. At the same time, the case enables a discussion about the often delicate balancing act of combining a need for enterprise-wide integration and standardization of a technology platform on the one hand, and on the other hand an idiosyncratic business-side demand for less constrained and more entrepreneurial use of technology for business generation.