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Delivering Internal Business Intelligence Services: How Different Strategies Allow Companies to Succeed by Failing Fast

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Aligning Business Strategies and Analytics

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This chapter reviews opportunities and issues propelling and limiting the success of business intelligence and analytics services for a company’s internal use. We describe three strategies for providing these services internally (on-premises, cloud, and hybrid) and explore issues of importance in the shaping of current demand and of future offerings by web-based providers. It also discusses opportunities for the development of academic curricula to offer better training to graduate and improve recruiting outcomes for organizations and for the development of more relevant academic research to address topics of current and strategic importance to the firm.

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Mendoza, R.A. (2019). Delivering Internal Business Intelligence Services: How Different Strategies Allow Companies to Succeed by Failing Fast. In: Anandarajan, M., Harrison, T. (eds) Aligning Business Strategies and Analytics. Advances in Analytics and Data Science, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93299-6_10

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