Last week, we published a blog that focused on modernizing your intranet. We shared the concept of assessing the organizations maturity as a way of determining where you are starting and understanding what you’d like to accomplish. We take a similar approach across all 4 of our practice areas. We use maturity roadmaps to better understand an organizations appetite and capacity to mature in specific areas of the modern workplace.
If your organization is looking to leverage Power BI, we can help you in understanding where you sit on the maturity roadmap and we can assist you in coming up with a plan to build a stronger data culture, expand your use of business intelligence tools and gain insights that can help you make better business decisions.
Level 1: Undirected
- Unaware of business intelligence (BI) tools or business value
- Data lives in spreadsheets
- Reports are built on request or handled on a one-off basis
Challenges at Level 1:
- No enterprise strategy for business intelligence tools
Level 2: Contained
- BI used in specific areas of the business
- No executive sponsorship or IT investment to leverage BI enterprise-wide
- Data is inconsistent
Challenges at Level 2:
- Adoption is limited to early adopters
- Lack of standards
- A few great reports floating around, but capabilities are not consistent across the organization
- Reliable reporting on specific projects
- Data is available, however the organization lacks the tools and skills to leverage information for insights or decision making
Level 3: Invested
- BI is being applied to address specific business needs
- Establishment of a BI team that supports business units on a project-by-project basis
- Data quality shows improvement
Challenges at Level 3:
- User adoption is not occurring
- Training on the new system is lacking
- Outlier tools are still being used
- Standards for report type and reporting processes are undefined
- Certain features have still not been incorporated
Level 4: Strategic
- BI is critical to executing business objectives
- BI Team is an important part of the business
- Data governance and policies are defined and enforced
- BI is being used to analyze data and improve processes
Challenges at Level 4:
- User-specific needs are not being met
- Adoption is still an issue
- Use of the solution is increasing, however, change management
- Functionality and IA may still be confusing to casual users of the solution
Level 5: Pervasive
- BI capabilities are extended to suppliers, customers and business processes
- BI is being used across the enterprise
- Self-service BI enables users to see and share data
- Dashboards deliver business metrics
- BI is leveraged to make informed business decisions
Challenges at Level 5:
- User adoption/Change management
- Organization fails to incorporate data insights to improve decision making, identifying trends, and improving legacy processes
If you’d like to talk to the experts, discuss a project, or work on a data analytics and visualization strategy, contact us.