by Geoff Devereux on October 23rd, 2009
– We’ll revisit the B.I. terms from last time next Tuesday and provide definitions. Today is a fun look at historical accounting, and for a change, I’ll make reference to Indicee. –
The Art of War, Chapter 2: Waging War
“Sun Tzu said: In general, the strategy for employing the military is this”:
If there are 1,000 4-Horse Attack Chariots, 1,000 Leather-armoured Support Chariots,
100,000 Mailed Troops, and Provisions are transported 1,000 li, then the domestic and external campaign expenses, the expenditures for advisors and guests, materials such as glue and lacquer, and providing chariots and armour will be 1,000 pieces of gold per day.
Only then can an army of 100,000 be mobilized.” *
* Sawyer’s translation
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by Geoff Devereux on October 13th, 2009
“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning”
- Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers
“Finding the one or two key numbers that drives success in your business, and bringing them to everyone is very powerful in a business”
– Joe Knight, co-author of Financial Intelligence
The inspiration for this post was a management improvement video (13 minutes) posted on You Tube by http://www.harvardbusiness.org of an interview with Joe Knight, co-author of the book series “Financial Intelligence”, Business Owner, and Harvard Business.org blogger. The central message of the interview was that everyone in an organization benefits from understanding the numbers by which success is measured within a business. The trick is finding the right numbers. Particularly in today’s climate hearing about transparency is nothing new, but what doesn’t get as much play is this idea of narrowing the focus on measures of performance.
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by Mark Cunningham on November 3rd, 2008
We have updated the getting started guide on the site to help users get up and running as quickly as possible.
The guide targets two types of users coming to Indicee
The Business Analyst: someone that wants to load data themselves
The Business Manager: someone who wants to use data previously loaded
Let us know how we can improve the getting started area of the site. Keep your eye out for a number of how-to videos that we will be launching soon.
