Unit 7: Student Papers & Peer Review Discussion
Unit 7: Student Papers & Peer Review Discussion
Dates
Please refer to the course calendar for all due dates.
Objectives
At the completion of this unit, the HI graduate student will be able to
Explore Business Intelligence concepts through the integrations of theory and practice in order to identify potential areas of expertise.
Apply students’ skills in business intelligence literacy.
Demonstrate students’ skills in organizing,communicating, and presentation information
Create knowledge content for students’ knowledge portfolios
Assignment
You currently work as an information technology leader for a 180-bed hospital system located in Chicago, IL. The organization has four hospitals around the Chicagoland area and one central business office.
The organization is looking to acquire a new hospital system by the end of the year. Discussion revolving around finances and integration planning have been underway and have been in evaluation stages for several years. You have been brought in as a healthcare business intelligence consultant for the parent organization.
The current analytic infrastructure does not meet the needs of executive leadership and cannot support the organization moving forward. Currently, most of the analytic work and product leverages data from the data warehouse and is addressed manually or in an “ad-hoc” fashion. The business intelligence team supports all four hospitals, all data needs, and requirements come through the project management office. Unfortunately, there is no centralized reporting area. In addition, many analysts save most of their work product on their desktops. Furthermore, you have been made aware that some of the business intelligence team members have been inconsistent when reporting numbers to leadership. The current manager in place was recently promoted from a Sr. Analyst position. Upon the promotion, the team experienced nearly 40% turnover in the following six months. Transition and knowledge transfer was poorly executed. You’ve conducted an interview with the manager and also have learned that many previous projects are slipping delivery dates due to the lack of data/reporting infrastructure and conflicting priorities from various VPs.
The current analytic offerings are basic at best. You have seen some vague KPIs in a few of the reports presented to you by the team and have seen inconsistency in the way data has been presented visually. You also have noted frustration from VPs that the current data, to their current understanding, only scratches the surface of what they really need. Some of the metrics that they have fails to trend, forecast, and benchmark.
The pending acquisition also poses a new, more pressing issue for the organization. The other hospital system does not have a business intelligence team or solution in place. They do have disparate systems (including an EMR) and a centralized data warehouse. Most of their analytic needs are produced by one individual.
Leadership has come to you for expert opinion and recommendation. They want fast to market, excellent visualization and super fast response times. In addition, self-service is very important including faster load times for dashboard with 20+ data sources and highly cross-functional data.
Compose a memo to the CIO. The CIO is seeking expert opinion on what to do with the current “mess” with the Business Intelligence team and pending impacts for the acquisition. Using the resources folder, select a business intelligence tool/solution and provide the pros/cons of a selection that you would endorse and be used as the enterprise-wide BI solution for the entire organization (research is needed from your point). In addition, provide leadership with a business intelligence gameplan. What should be done with the current “state of the union”? Once the memo is completed, create a PowerPoint slide deck that would be presented at the next board of directors meeting. Ensure you highlight the business intelligence solution recommendation and the pros/cons of purchasing such a solution for the organization.
Assumptions:
There are 10 members of the BI team (+1 from the other hospital system)
Initial budget for your recommendation and plan is $1M
Costs associated with data integration with both systems are sunk and do not affect the budget
Leadership is seeking dashboards, scorecards, and other cutting edge BI outputs
Various VPs have a backlog of tasks and want to start to get at the data themselves
The organization is starting to lose trust with BI department
The board of directors are not technical, but want to understand the pros/cons of your recommendation
750 words is a minimum, you may get creative in your approach and analyze other aspects of the BI department for improvement
1. Please upload your memo to your discussion group for discussion.
2. Attach the PowerPoint deck to the submission. Ensure they are submitted together in one post.
3. For Unit 7 group discussion, each student has been assigned to peer review one of her/his group colleague’s recommendation memo and PowerPoint for constructive critical commentary.
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