Introduction
Challenges
BI Initiative
Current vs future BI infrasturcture
BI Implementation
100
The year 1922
What is the year that Canadian Tire was founded?
100
This is CTC's biggest competitor
What is Hudson's Bay Company?
100
These groups provide an alternative source of IT resources to the user groups at unknown costs and security risks
What do shadow IT groups do?
100
This is the number of operating systems originally used by CDC
What is 14?
100
This is the first step to starting an implementation plan
What is set up a technical implementation team
200
This is the year that Canadian Tire became officially incorporated
What is the year 1927?
200
This type of organization decreases the likelihood of success when launching BI
What is a larger and more complex organization?
200
Projects that consist of short-term actions that provide users with new information
What are Quick Win projects?
200
This is a subset of a data warehouse for a single department or function
What is a Data Mart?
200
Budget setting, finance arrangements, and system research should be done while planning this
What is the timeline
300
This is the number of business networked into CTC?
What is five?
300
These are two of the challenges of implementing BI?
What are Budget Constraint; Data Quality; Understanding and Managing User Expectations; Culture Change; Time Required to Implement; Data Integration; Education and Training; ROI Justification; Business Rules Analysis; Management Sponsorship?
300
These people frequently mention data quality and cultural change as their biggest hurdles
Who are IT managers?
300
Data about data
What is Meta-data?
300
These are three efficient methods of communication to educate users about the BI system
What are meetings; training sessions; email status update
400
This is the number of employees at CTC as of 2003
What is 45,000?
400
This is the year that CTC started implementing BI
What is 2008?
400
The consolidation and analysis of internal data and/or external data for the purpose of effective decision making
What is Business Intelligence?
400
This is the company whose systems were entirely separate from the rest of the CTC infrastructure
What is Mark's Work Warehouse?
400
These can be hired to examine and redefine the business processes and help the upper-level technicians have a further understanding of the process
What are consultants
500
This is sometimes referred to as Canada's second official currency
What is Canadian Tire Money?
500
This is a recent CTFS IT project
What is mass data management (MDM)?
500
This group performs the bulk of the analysis and prepares reports for the various departments at CTC
What is Finance Retail Analytics Group (FRAG)?
500
This is what CTC wanted to eliminate from its current BI environment and replace with one large information warehouse
What are independent data sources?
500
This is the last step of the implementation plan
What is maintain and upgrade process and systems?
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