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Guide your BI initiatives and teams successfully from project inception to completion. 

Clarity provides the leadership that gets your BI projects safely and swiftly out the door so they can start working for you.

If your organization is like many others, your BI program is a bevy of technologies, partners, vendors, and project teams, often distributed across different locations, and often with competing interests. Coordinating this multiplayer, multifaceted effort so that it serves the right goals and produces the right results in the right priority order—plus stays within budget and progresses on time—is an endeavor that demands a skilled leader and insightful BI expert. Clarity’s BI program and project managers fit that description.

Our program and project managers are certified senior leaders, BI practitioners, and vertical industry experts. They do the following:

• Spearhead, administer, and track your BI program and individual projects, shepherding them smoothly from planning to production.
• Promote enterprise-level goals (as opposed to the goals of a particular individual or group) by providing objective oversight and counsel.
• Minimize your risk by rationalizing and coordinating project participants, and by carefully managing scope.
• Deliver business results by ensuring that each project provides usable data.  
• Provide the right balance of momentum and control, command and communication, oversight and hands-on contribution, best practices and customizations.

Some of the activities led by Clarity's program and project managers are:

Alignment
Organizational obstacles to BI are arguably more common than technical obstacles. In particular, a company's BI program is often out of alignment with its information strategy or business objectives. Clarity maintains special expertise in BI strategy and business requirements analysis, and our PMs are not just business or IT leaders, but focused BI practitioners. We help chart the course of your BI efforts toward the corporate vision you've set, and define project success not by its mere completion, but by its contribution to that vision.

Rescue and Deployment
If you need to retool a stalled BI project, jump start a delayed one, or pare down a bloated one, Clarity can help. We'll do the following:

• Restate the goals, benefits, and challenges of the project as they relate to the BI strategy and business needs, and adjust project scope if necessary.
• Divide the project into short term goals that can be achieved right away.
• Gain or strengthen sponsorship from executives and stakeholders.
• Staff the project with the right BI resources, or help train your employees in the BI skills they need.
• Deliver “BI on BI”: we’ll help you articulate the success factors of the project and then measure them with corresponding metrics and KPIs.

Communication
This is a critical skill and practice--a lack of attention paid to it can lead to overly complex or troubled BI projects. Clarity PMs do the following:

• Open the lines of communication, and set communications standards and processes both within and among teams.
• Engage client stakeholders, legacy BI teams, and current project teams in the exchange of ideas.
• Provide transparent project reporting and objective issue resolution.
• Serve as a liaison between client executives and end users in order to champion strategy, gain project support, and facilitate solution adoption.

Need a leader for your BI efforts? Contact us today.