IBM Cognos BI Toolkit


• Identify new areas where BI solutions or processes can be utilized to better drivE Business results.
  
  

• Establish that your team supports BI directional traceability between System Requirements and input requirements, Test Cases, decomposed discipline requirements, system architectural design, as applicable.
  
  

• Be accountable for providing product knowledge to your sales team weekly or BI weekly + providing briefings of incoming inventory during weekly Team Meetings.
  
  

• Secure that your strategy enters property General management accounts into the Accounting System weekly, BI weekly, or monthly depending on the usage and reconciled monthly.
  
  

• Provide meaningful feedback and coaching of other team members in the use of Power BI and related technologies.
  
  

• Ensure you meet; lead with expertise in using different Power BI functionalities, understanding data, and provide solutions using the tool.
  
  

• Ensure you standardize; lead with expertise in streaming products, Microservices, Message Oriented Middleware, Stream Processing, Master Data Management, Data Lake, Deep Analytic technologies, Data Virtualization, BI Reporting And Analytics.
  
  

• Move ahead with provide BI technical guidance to projects and teams, ensuring that new initiatives enable effective Data Reporting.
  
  

• Ensure you aid; recommend, implement and adhere to industry wide BI Best Practices and drive for changes to existing processes and/or procedures for the betterment of your organization.
  
  

• Manage work with Power BI analysts and stakeholders to identify, develop, implement and support projects to build and enhance the Data Warehouse.
  
  

• Provide team leadership and management for BI engineers and Business Partners on your Business Intelligence team to provide reporting, dashboards, insights and quantitative support for longer term strategic projects.
  
  

• Solidify expertise in using different Power BI functionalities, understanding data, and provide solutions using the tool.
  
  

• Provide technical leadership and mentoring for Power BI Development Teams, defining standards and practices.
  
  

• Provide lost business reports on a BI weekly basis and territory Sales Forecasts on a monthly basis.
  
  

• Be accountable for partnering with partner Engineering teams to enhance data infrastructure, data availability, and broad access to Customer Insights made available through BI tools across your organization.
  
  

• Manage work with BI development and the office of information technology to support complex Data Models and a robust semantic layer that produces easily understood data sets for functional users.
  
  

• Secure that your corporation complies; conducts daily/weekly/ BI monthly/ monthly safety meetings and entering into your Safety Management system.
  
  

• Develop dashboards, automated reporting and interactive Data Visualizations using BI software and other tools, ensure reliable and efficient delivery across your organization.
  
  

• Ensure you head; lead with knowledge and expertise in selling Cloud Technologies, with focus on Azure cloud data and Bi Platforms.
  
  


Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical IBM Cognos BI Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step Work Plans and maturity diagnostics for any IBM Cognos BI related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated IBM Cognos BI specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the IBM Cognos BI Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a Data Driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of Process Design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which IBM Cognos BI improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:


1. What are your key performance measures or indicators and in process measures for the control and improvement of your IBM Cognos BI processes?
   
   

2. How and when will the baselines be defined?
   
   

3. How can the phases of IBM Cognos BI development be identified?
   
   

4. Who has control over resources?
   
   

5. How are you doing compared to your industry?
   
   

6. What IBM Cognos BI data will be collected?
   
   

7. What measurements are possible, practicable and meaningful?
   
   

8. Who is on the team?
   
   

9. What are evaluation criteria for the output?
   
   

10. Should you invest in industry-recognized qualifications?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the IBM Cognos BI book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your IBM Cognos BI self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the IBM Cognos BI Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which IBM Cognos BI areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough IBM Cognos BI Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline Data Protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage IBM Cognos BI projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step IBM Cognos BI Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 IBM Cognos BI project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?
   
   

2. Activity Cost Estimates: In which phase of the Acquisition Process cycle does source qualifications reside?
   
   

3. Project Scope Statement: Will all IBM Cognos BI project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?
   
   

4. Closing Process Group: Did the IBM Cognos BI Project Team have enough people to execute the IBM Cognos BI project plan?
   
   

5. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?
   
   

6. Scope Management Plan: Are Corrective Actions taken when actual results are substantially different from detailed IBM Cognos BI project plan (variances)?
   
   

7. Initiating Process Group: During which stage of Risk planning are risks prioritized based on probability and impact?
   
   

8. Cost Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?
   
   

9. Procurement Audit: Was a formal review of tenders received undertaken?
   
   

10. Activity Cost Estimates: What procedures are put in place regarding bidding and cost comparisons, if any?


 
Step-by-step and complete IBM Cognos BI Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 IBM Cognos BI project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 IBM Cognos BI Project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 IBM Cognos BI project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 IBM Cognos BI project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 IBM Cognos BI project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 IBM Cognos BI project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any IBM Cognos BI project with this in-depth IBM Cognos BI Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose IBM Cognos BI projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based Best Practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in IBM Cognos BI and put Process Design strategies into practice according to Best Practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make IBM Cognos BI investments work better.

This IBM Cognos BI All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.