Week 2

This week I learned about building a balanced scorecard which helps to address a company's theme. It gives a very clear summary of how the company is doing and what are the things that needed to be highlighted.



http://www.balancedscorecard.org/BSCResources/ExamplesSuccessStories/tabid/57/Default.aspx

The above link shows examples of organisations working with balanced scorecard which includes non-profit organisation and government organisation.


Examples of Balanced Scorecard softwares:
QuickScore Performance Information System
CorVu
Actuate/Performancesoft


QuickScore Performance Information System is developed by Spider Strategies and co-marketed by the Balanced Scoredcard Institute.

CorVu produced the software called "CorStrategy" and it efficiently execute strategic plans using automating methodologists such as the Balanced Scorecard etc.

Actuate automates Balanced Scorecard facilitates effective communication and implementation of goals, while delivering the focus needed for alignment to top level strategy.

Week 1

Business Intelligence is expanded from Data Mining so I hope BI lesson will help me have a better understanding on Data Mining. For my first lesson, it is a refreshment of what I have learned in Data Mining and focused more on data visualisation which I noticed in the lecture notes.

Below are example of BI software available for business purposes:

MicroStrategy

Tableau

SAS

Useful links:

http://www.tableausoftware.com/

http://www.microstrategy.com/Products-Services/

http://www.sas.com/technologies/bi/visualization/visualbi/index.html#section=4