Managers often discover that they have tons of business reports but no real data for decision support. Business intelligence is not always enough, therefore it is supplemented by analytics and data mining which enables users to discover hidden patterns in data and predicting probabilities of events in the future. -- MonitorPro winter 2012, p. 30-31...
Everything is agile nowadays. Businesses run faster and there is very little time between a business event and the need to respond. To enable business processes to be quick and agile we need efficient access to data that enables us to make decisions. -- MonitorPro autumn 2012, p. 30-32...
Project Management Institute (PMI) published the results of a major research in 2009 which confirmed that project management adds value. The result was expected because all of us who are professional project managers believe in its merits. This research was the first of its kind to scientifically prove our beliefs. -- GEA Forum Issue 13, september 2012...
Agile is popular and the web is brimming with information about it. Due to so much information it is not easy for a newbie who wants to get involved with agile development to decide how to begin or to distinguish between truth and myth. To make it even more confusing there are conflicting facts - what someone claims is the truth, someone else declares a myth and vice versa. -- MonitorPro summer 2012, p. 22-23...
A hot topic related to data management is the ability to deal with huge volumes of data. We are talking about such huge volumes of data that we can barely manage them with current technologies in reasonable response times. New technologies that have become available are more suited for working with such huge amounts of data. They can be meaningfully applied to uncover hidden patterns in data and implement business intelligence solutions. -- MonitorPro magazine, spring 2012, p. 28-31...
The business environment is changing at a fast pace and projects are not always up to date with achieving business goals. Agile project management ensures quick results that satisfy stakeholder requirements in a timely manner. On top of that we should also implement agile program and portfolio management which ensures that a collection of projects follows the constant changing requirements of the business environment.
-- paper presented at the International Conference on Organizational Science Development, March 21 – 23, 2012...
Interview with the founders of the group Skram.si in Slovenia, Tilen Travnik from Domenca Labs (D•Labs) and Dušan Omerčević from Zemanta. -- PMI Slovenia Chapter Newsletter, Issue 2 Year 6, December 19, 2011...
Data warehousing has matured to the point where it has become required as a necessary part of business information infrastructure. No longer are data warehouses regarded as a new and untried concept. In recent years we have seen developments in technologies, methodologies, architectures, approaches and ways of using the data warehouse. But this does not mean that everything is known and there are no new challenges to address. -- MonitorPro fall 2011, p. 37-39...
Data warehouses must be constantly kept up to date – on the one hand due to changing business requirements and on the other hand due to technological advances. We can say that a warehouse is never really completed. Maintaining a data warehouse may in time become even more demanding than its initial implementation. How do we approach this challenge? -- MonitorPro fall 2011, p. 40-41
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Customer segmentation is becoming a popular topic. As with anything new there are many misconceptions, misunderstandings and too little clarity. Each stakeholder has their own definition of segmentation and each understands it in a different way. The basics are actually always the same and the required tools are known and established. -- Article published in MonitorPro summer 2011, p. 24-26...
