Responsive web design (RWD) is a buzz-phrase that all tech people understand. But, when you start talking about Responsive Web Design, Adaptive Web Design, Content First Design, and other mobile concepts, the average business person tunes out (and with good reason). I won’t argue that it is important for every business person to understand the basic importance of making websites, applications and online presence a pleasant experience for customers, partners and suppliers. BUT, no technology person should expect the average business manager or end-user to understand the ins and outs of the process. That’s why we have experts!
Startups are popping up like mushrooms everyday, pretty much every startup has the same message.
“We are a startup, we are in search of funding…“How wonderful will it be to get funding… the startups that get funded are celebrities.
They do get exemplary treatments in the media circuits, suddenly they are news worthy materials.
Of course they could be having something very serious and sincere, disruptive to market kind of service, by way of addressing immediate business or social problem.
Whenever this happens, you will notice that several similar startups popup at every zone.
They even book similar names.
If FlipKart became famous, then there are so many others with names ending with the same old KART.
Not many among them succeed and the ones that do succeed have some very common points that can be traced as a pattern.
Here is a look at exactly five common aspects of successful start-up companies.
When business intelligence vendors talk about democratizing data discovery, they can have very different interpretations about ‘democracy’. If a business intends to provide self-serve BI tools to its employees for daily use and data discovery, it must provide true data democratization. The business user cannot be limited to viewing static dashboards developed by dashboard developers with only the most basic drill down and filtering capabilities. Business users must be empowered by true data democratization and self-serve BI tools, which, in many cases, is the original intent of a BI solution implementation. Sadly, many businesses never achieve their original goals, but rather end up with ‘packaged dashboards’, because they are hamstrung by desktop-based data discovery BI tools that require design control and intervention by dashboard developers and limit business users to packaged views and tasks.
You know what would be boring…?
A lesson on psychology! So as to make the article interesting, let us progress with a story arc format consisting of the good, the bad and the funny side!
The Good Side of the Story!
We have known people and have worked for people who understand nothing about technology, but have a defined domain knowledge or expertise or clarity of purpose to pursue use of technology to expand their skills to a global arena through automation made feasible by technology.
By automation, we are specifically talking about delivering value through use of software, rather than manual tasking.
Say for instance, an auditor who does auditing of major hospitals, food & beverage industries have found that the process could be optimized by use of an iPad type device that will carry the standardized forms for compliance regulation and works, just works! On both offline and online mode.
This simplification is a welcomed simplification; business needs efficiency, less paper work, more quality coverage and accuracy.
This forms the clarity of purpose behind the development of software product.
Small and medium sized organizations often give up on the idea of business intelligence and corporate performance management, because they believe that the BI tools and solutions are too expensive and complex to implement and that their organizational structure and processes is simple enough to manage without these types of tools.
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