Most failed BI projects fail the same way. The mistakes are predictable, which means they are avoidable once you know what to watch for.
We scope our Business Intelligence Consulting service to sidestep these traps, starting narrow and tying every dashboard to a decision.
Each of these turns a promising project into shelfware. The thread running through them is building for completeness instead of for decisions.
Ambition is usually the cause. A big-bang project promises to answer every question, but it runs long, costs more and ships dashboards nobody asked for. Decisions, not coverage, should set the scope.
Start narrow, agree definitions early, and tie every dashboard to a decision and an owner. Prove value on one report, then expand. Train the team so the work gets used.
If you cannot name who will use a dashboard and what they will do with it, do not build it yet.
A BI audit and roadmap starts from $2,490 plus GST as a one-off. A core dashboard build starts from $4,990 plus GST. Ongoing BI partner support starts from $1,490 per month. The right tier depends on how much data you have and how many decisions you want it to drive.
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Common BI project mistakes include big-bang scope, choosing tools before understanding data, dashboards with no owner, missing metric definitions and no training. Avoid them by starting narrow and tying every dashboard to a decision.