SESSIONSLATEST RESEARCH
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5 Sessions
Show Descriptions
Monday
Monday
13:45 - 15:15
Interactive Workshop: Getting Your Message Across — Bridging the Gap Between IT and Business
Speaker: Rob Geraghty
Session Type: Workshop
Location: Park Plaza Westminster Bridge - Park 4+5
ID: W1
Back by popular demand! This workshop focuses on business intelligence facing a communications challenge – and it’s getting more pressing as business priorities change. Led by Rob Geraghty from The Wow Factor, Rob will share the secrets of the most successful communicators – from Barack Obama to Steve Jobs and Steve Ballmer. With video clips, and interactive exercises, this hands-on workshop, with lots of group participation, will help you: “sell” the benefits of BI to your customers across the organization; manage expectations and ensure buy-in from sponsors; boost your body language to raise your authority and avoid jargon and express yourself clearly.
Monday
13:45 - 15:15
Interactive Workshop: Understanding BI Maturity
Speaker: Bill Hostmann
Session Type: Workshop
Location: Park Plaza Westminster Bridge - City Room 3
ID: W2
Tracks: IT, T, F
You need to sign on to be able to download session documents.BIE13I-W2-bie13i-w2-107-hostmann-os-mw02.pdf
This workshop will help participants understand and apply the Gartner Business Intelligence Maturity Assessment to their BI initiatives. Workshop participants, facilitated by Gartner analysts, will collaborate to develop action plans to address solution components that are identified by their assessments as areas or gaps that need to be improved.
Monday
15:45 - 17:15
Interactive Workshop: Building a BI Strategy
Speakers: Gareth Herschel, James Richardson
Session Type: Workshop
Location: Park Plaza Westminster Bridge - Park 4+5
ID: W3
Tracks: B, F, S
You need to sign on to be able to download session documents.BIE13I-W3-bie13i-w3.pdf
A surprising number of firms still don’t have a written strategy for BI. Does yours? Attendees at this session will work together, facilitated by Gartner analysts, in setting the groundwork for putting a strategy in place for their organization. They will work through parts of Gartner’s Toolkit template for BI Strategy and then consider the steps they need to take to work towards at more strategicapproach to BI at their organization.
Tuesday
Tuesday
08:00 - 10:00
Interactive Workshop: Social Analytics — BI’s Role in Customer Social Engagement
Speaker: Bill Gassman
Session Type: Workshop
Location: Park Plaza Westminster Bridge - Park 4+5
ID: W4
Tracks: B, T
You need to sign on to be able to download session documents.BIE13I-W4-bie13i-w4.pdf
Using social media is a business strategy that benefits communities and businesses by fostering engagement, while generating opportunities for sales, marketing and customer service. Social media is a new form of content and social applications are new channels to attract and interact with customers. This workshop will explore how this is being done and help you working with social analytics in your organization.
Tuesday
10:45 - 12:45
Interactive Workshop: How to Get Started with MDM
Speaker: Andrew White
Session Type: Workshop
Location: Park Plaza Westminster Bridge - Park 4+5
ID: W5
Tracks: IT, T, F
You need to sign on to be able to download session documents.BIE13I-W5-bie13i-w5.pdf
Many organizations know they have problems with data, but they struggle to figure out where to launch the program. If you can’t easily identify the business case for MDM yet, and you need help unearthing where to start, this workshop will explore the areas Gartner has seen to show value, and provide an interactive session for you and your peers to share and generate new ideas to test back at the office next Monday.