Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence delivers independent, authoritative advice on emerging business trends and practices including CRM, Supply Chain, Data Warehousing, Balanced Scorecard, Business Intelligence, Human Resources and Knowledge Management, presenting its findings in the form of conferences, exhibitions, publishing, training courses and web communities.

Gain a Strategic Edge

Business Intelligence is an independent company with a reputation for predicting and tracking important trends in management over the past decade. Our authoritative programme of reports, conferences and exhibitions helps organisations to gain a vital edge in devising their own strategies to achieve superior performance. In Autumn 1999, we introduced a bespoke research service for client confidential projects.

Original Research

Business Intelligence carries out a continuing programme of research amongst the Times Top 1000 companies and major public sector organisations. Research projects are conducted in conjunction with leading business schools, consultancies and publications, including Imperial College, London University, the OXIIM business school at Oxford University and the Financial Times.

In October 1997, Business Intelligence became the first conference, publishing and exhibition company to gain the UK government's Investors In People accreditation.

A Pioneering Approach

Business Intelligence offers insights into issues that are high on the management agenda of both private and public sector organisations. The subjects explored in our conferences and reports currently include:

How to manage, sustain and communicate radical change and corporate agility

Performance measurement and management including the implementation of specific IT and finance scorecards

Cost-effective management of the corporate desktop

Knowledge management, the corporate intranet and the management of best practices

Data warehousing, enterprise application integration, business intelligence, OLAP, network computing and digital commerce

The changing role of the finance function

How transforming the role of HR can contribute real business benefits

Using outsourcing and strategic alliances to leverage core competencies

Strategically managing internal communications

Implementing a corporate EMU strategic and IT programme

Corporate culture and its impact on business performance

Customer relationship management (CRM) and e-CRM Capitalise on New Concepts and Ideas

Successful managers know that today's business problems call for innovative solutions. To remain competitive, organisations must adapt. And that means keeping abreast of leading-edge management practices. Not just the theory, but the best practice application of new concepts and ideas.

An Added-Value Service

By analysing and assessing the innovative ideas of world experts and the experience of world-class companies, Business Intelligence enables its customers to evaluate their relevance value to their own organisations. The bottom line is an unparalleled breadth of information guidance that can help companies to improve their competitive position.

History

Business Intelligence was founded in 1988 by experienced business journalists, David Harvey and Ian Meiklejohn. With a background in identifying, analysing and presenting management issues for publications such as Management Today, the Director and the Observer, they have built a steadily expanding company with a significant volume of repeat business from forward-thinking managers. The company's chairman is Colin Palmer, formerly deputy managing director of Thomson Tour Operations, he is non-executive director of Unipart Information Technology and a visiting professor of Imperial College, London.

Maintaining an Objective View

As a company wholly-owned by its founding directors, Business Intelligence remains independent from all suppliers, consultancies and other organisations. Our customers therefore benefit from the fact that the information we offer via our conferences and reports remains free of any vested interest.