Executives and managers use "gut feel" to make business decisions most of the time, according to a study by Bloomberg Businessweek Research Services (BBRS). The problem is, "gut feel" often leads to poor outcomes-and keeps companies from exploring profitable...

Patrick Kern, Director of Business Intelligence at Procter & Gamble. InformationWeek recently named the P&G CIO "CIO of the Year" and Fortune 500 named it #5 in their Most Admired Companies 2011 list. Patrick shares how the company stays agile...

This week's BI TV episode features Loic Le Meur of Seesmic. Seesmic is a social media management company that helps businesses track and improve their social media presence. Loic shares his social media business philosophy with Bruno, including tips on...

For many people, deciding to lose weight is nothing more involved than a decision to do so. Losing weight and actually keeping it off can be an almost impossible feat for most people without proper planning and maintenance. In the latest episode of BI...

This week Bruno Aziza talks with Jason Jacobs of Runkeeper. Runkeeper is an exciting app for mobile phones that assembles and tracks all of your fitness data and allows you to analyze progress and get in shape. The features are pretty sophisticated and...

By Joe Mullich When business intelligence projects fail, it is often because of poor planning: In a burst of excitement, someone at the company rushes ahead with a BI initiative without considering whether it meets the organization's needs or if anybody...

Motivating yourself, co-workers and/or employees is always useful in business and incentives are some of the oldest tricks in the book. But what really works? Dr. Ian Ayres, author of Carrots and Sticks , shares what types of incentive programs actually...

Data is the key to business intelligence. You need data to analyze in order to make informed decisions, but having access to all the data you need hasn't always been easy. That's where Azure Marketplace comes in. Moe Khosravy explains the basic principles...

Predictive analytics is the next step in BI: not only can you be retrospective and see what has happened in your company in the past, but now we can distill new information from the old information to actually predict what will happen in the future. Jamie...

Patrick Kern, Director of Business Intelligence at Procter & Gamble, discusses how software vendors are selected for BI Solutions. When making investments in BI, P&G uses analyst reports early in the process to shorten the list of candidates....