Internal audit is the king
How to slow down all processes related to Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse with one single and minor organizational effort? Simply, just strengthen internal audit with many employees and let them do the work properly. If managers will not guide them they will find what to dig and how to make processes be by the book.
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Internal audit is more than capable in producing countless administrative procedures for internal process exhausting. What was before enough to close business intelligence request for change by mail confirmation now are needed huge piles of acceptance documentation. Another example, just try to help somebody with ad hoc functionality or report and you’ll see how help will convert into worst enemy. Why did you create it, have you thought of information security, who authorized, who accepted, who initiated, and testing documentation is where, and many other unpleasant questions might follow simple help toward marketing department who needed to expressly deliver marketing campaign.
After some time more time of work is spent on numerous mom, presentations, documents and similar. It is incredible burden for project that needs huge energy and creativity during installation and production. Everybody is frighten of internal police and creativity is killed. All changes are extremely long. No body wants to do anything ad hoc and everybody is asking for many documentation. Fear of bad procedures and inadequate documentation is inside organization.
Audit is very innovative and effective business intelligence stopper
It is necessary to have internal audit and play according to rules make standards and to work ok but business intelligence is usually implemented to make decisions in mostly very dynamic markets where products, services, customer experience and behavior is changing very often. Environment can be described with rule: “Uncertainty is only certain”. Big internal audit is in this case business intelligence and business overall destroyer. Indirectly audit will significantly slow down information and knowledge generation in company. That is totally opposite to why business intelligence is being implemented at all. Does company have so much resources to spare on such luxury and can it go into such risk?
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