Fun times in business intelligence are emerging. We’re enjoying a unique trend emerging in business, identified by the quantitative approaches and stories identified in recent popular books such as SuperCrunchers and Competing on Analytics. The trend is moving away from the traditional reporting dashboards and single threaded predictive systems geared to present a user with a single view of the future based on a single set of inputs/assumptions. The newest technologies and visualization capabilities are presenting firms with a really slick way to evaluate a set of strategic alternatives in one of two ways… to present multiple variants of a strategy in a manner that allows direct correlation or to present those same variants in a simulated environment. Technology has developed to a point where we have ready access and availability to the technology that enables this type of analysis.
