Complimentary Educational Webinar Series

IS YOUR ORGANIZATION READY FOR BI? 

Has Business Intelligence (BI) caught the attention of your executive team? Have you recently become aware of BI because your competitor’s are effectively using it to grow their market share? If you are like many business or technology leaders, you are contemplating how BI can help your organization.

Webinar Overview

The mere thought of BI can bring about feelings of uncertainty and complexity for even the most senior of leaders.   After all, business intelligence is about making information readily available to provide new insights, enable fact-based decisions, and improve actions – easier said than done.  Organizations that have successfully implemented BI programs and seen broad adoption are reaping the business benefits of BI through improved operational efficiency, increased profitability, higher customer satisfaction and greater customer value. 

These same successful organizations have come to realize that BI is not just about technology, but rather, a new way of doing business enabled by the people, process, information, technology and culture of your organization.  So before embarking on such challenging task, you need to ask and answer one “simple” question:  Is your organization ready for BI?

What Did You Learn?

This webinar will provide a framework for determining if your organization is ready for BI by:

• Providing a brief overview of BI
• De-mystifing the scope and complexity of BI
• Discussing the areas you need to assess
• Identifying what to look for during the assessment phase
• Highlighting tools and techniques to move your assessment forward

Who Attended?

• Business Leaders responsible for improving operations, increasing sales / profits, and managing customer relationships.
• Technology Leaders accountable for enabling business intelligence for their organization.
• Executives who need a better insight into how their company is performing and tools that will help forecast the impact of their decisions.

About the Speaker

Tony Lopykinski is the Founder and Managing Principal of Maven Advisors, LLC.  Tony has more than 17 years of diverse leadership experience having served in numerous roles within the analytics, business intelligence, and data warehousing space.  As the Global BI Director for one of the world’s largest retailers, he led both the development and execution of the company’s enterprise business intelligence strategy.  Tony enjoys leveraging his many lessons learned to deliver practical solutions to companies new to business intelligence as well as those struggling to take their BI capabilities to the next level.

Tony serves as an expert at various industry forums and conferences.  He is currently part of The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI) faculty were he delivers business intelligence and data warehousing training, and serves as a judge of TDWI’s Best Practice Awards.  In addition, Tony founded and chairs the AITP BI Executive Forum, a group focused on sharing best practices among business intelligence leaders throughout the Chicago land area.



About Maven Advisors, LLC

Maven Advisors, LLC, a Chicago-based management and technology consultancy, helps organizations achieve their business objectives through the integration, management and delivery of information. Maven Advisors specializes in business intelligence and data warehousing, providing advisory services in the areas of strategic planning, data and technology architecture, solution design and development, project management and business analysis. Maven Advisors’ broad experience with many of the leading business intelligence software solutions enables the company's technology independent approach and ensures unbiased and objective advice for its clients. www.maven-advisors.com