In my years at Gartner, I worked together with Howard Dresner, who was my mentor, and who I also consider a very good friend. We also worked together at Hyperion. Howard is widely recognized as the ‘father of business intelligence’, the person who put BI on the map.
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Howard in London again, and it wasn’t all friendly chit-chat, I also did a hard-hitting interview with him. As he is the father of BI, he also has a few things to explain! As I wrote in an earlier blog, you could argue BI partly caused the credit crunch. Analytics on risk portfolios that weren’t understood, performance measures linked to extreme bonuses that caused irresponsible behaviors and too much focus on compliance reporting as the business case. I wondered what Howard had to say for himself ;-). Furthermore, I was curious if Howard felt if all his predictions had come true!
If you want to watch the interview, go to www.epmtv.eu!
