The Business Intelligence Quiz
Answer a few fun question and find out where you are in the BI Journey!
- 1.Where do access most of you data from?
- A.
Spreadsheets
- B.
Simple Databases
- C.
Data Marts
- D.
Data Warehouse
- 2.Do you use dashboards? If so, who uses them?
- A.
No one, we don't have dashboards
- B.
Our CEO does
- C.
Most all of the high level managers use one
- D.
Anyone that would benefit from one has one
- 3.What does your BI team look like?
- A.
One guy, always swamped
- B.
Small team, overloaded with requests
- C.
Bigger Team, still building reports
- D.
Maintenance Team, anyone can make reports
- E.
Reports come before you ask
- 4.How much insight does your data give?
- A.
Very little, just records
- B.
We have to know what to look for, when we do we can find it
- C.
Moderate level of insight for my department
- D.
High level of insight across all departments
- E.
Tells me what I need to know, before I know I need it
- 5.How do you use your data?
- A.
To keep records, we occasionally refer to it.
- B.
Often, but with occasional data disagreement.
- C.
Departmental data, unconnected dashboards.
- D.
Our convenient, clear data is easy to use.
- E.
Our data not only shows us where we are now, but what direction we are headed.
- 6.How valuable is data to your company?
- A.
We need it for financial records and taxes
- B.
Increasingly valuable, its developing
- C.
Helps when things aren't clear
- D.
Our company helps us make data driven descisions
- E.
Our data helps us to know what questions to ask
- 7.Do you have both business and IT sponsorship across the company for analytics initiatives?
- A.
We don't have sponsorship across the company for analytics
- B.
We have IT sponsorship only
- C.
We have business sponsorship only
- D.
We have both business managers and IT sponsorship
- E.
We have all levels of business and IT sponsorship
- 8.We have a well-established funding process in place for analytics. It is driven by both business and IT.
- A.
Strongly disagree
- B.
Disagree
- C.
Neither agree nor disagree
- D.
Agree
- E.
Strongly agree
- 9.We take action using analytics (i.e., analytics as part of a business process, as part of a model) in my company
- A.
Strongly disagree
- B.
Disagree
- C.
Neither agree nor disagree
- D.
Agree
- E.
Strongly agree
- 10.We have an analytics road map in place that has been agreed to across the company AND the discipline to change the road map if needed
- A.
Strongly disagree
- B.
Disagree
- C.
Neither agree nor disagree
- D.
Agree
- E.
Strongly agree
- 11.We have users across the spectrum of analytic skill making use of analytics in my organization
- A.
Strongly disagree
- B.
Disagree
- C.
Neither agree nor disagree
- D.
Agree
- E.
Strongly agree
- 12.We have a process in place for dealing with data quality that is dependent on the kind of data we are dealing with
- A.
Strongly disagree
- B.
Disagree
- C.
Neither agree nor disagree
- D.
Agree
- E.
Strongly agree
- 13.Analytics are often automated as part of the business processes in my company
- A.
Strongly disagree
- B.
Disagree
- C.
Neither agree nor disagree
- D.
Agree
- E.
Strongly agree
- 14.Analytics is seen as a competitive differentiator in my company
- A.
Strongly disagree
- B.
Disagree
- C.
Neither agree nor disagree
- D.
Agree
- E.
Strongly agree
- 15.Security policies are in place and enforced for all forms of data in my company
- A.
Strongly disagree
- B.
Disagree
- C.
Neither agree nor disagree
- D.
Agree
- E.
Strongly agree
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