Business Intelligence tools used to be complex and difficult to use and resulting in limited use within enterprises. Advances in technology and a renewed emphasis on the business processes and the non-technical end users have resulted in more user friendly applications. IBM executives, Phillip Beniac, director for Cognos, BI & PM and Mark Register, vice president of Information on Demand, talk about the next wave of opportunity within the IT sector. Analytics is moving out of IT and into mainstream business processes.
Resistance to change is a natural occurring issue among employees in private and public sector organizations. One of the challenges of the Efficiency Unit of the Hong Kong Government is to help civil servants understand how their positions in the department influences the operation of the unit, and how changes can positively affect the overall performance of the department.