The Business Intelligence Impact on Better Decision Making
There are examples all around us of profoundly bad judgements and the effect they can have on business intelligence, and the overall organization.
When key decisions are viewed as the prerogative of a specific individual, or group, without adhering to data insights and processes, the fallout can bleed into the rest of the organization leading to unnecessary time and cost disruptions as well as negatively impacting the satisfaction of your customers.
Hope is not a strategy, you need data! Your print business intelligence processes need to be integrated with logic, metrics and accountability – with the ongoing ability to course correct as variables change.
Lisa Oakleaf, Ricoh Senior Global Product Manager and Matt Prusa, Avanti Systems Director of Sales discuss and evaluate customer use cases focused on how to:
- Simplify BI into digestible, relevant data
- Easily apply insights to your decision-making processes
- Take it to the next level thorough integrated smart tools for forecasting, notifications and dashboards
Meet the Presenters
Lisa is a Colorado native who has always had a passion for print. Before beginning in product marketing at Ricoh, she worked in the commercial print segment for more than 20 years. Her experience encompasses all aspects of the print workflow: production management, scheduling, planning and advanced prepress integration from Kodak, Agfa, Screen and many more. Her fluency in offset and digital technologies has served her well in the product marketing landscape where Lisa manages commercial print software solutions. Always a customer advocate, Lisa applies their feedback to help develop better products for their business success.
A 30-year sales veteran with broad leadership expertise, Matt has been applying his business acumen to both sales agency and production print environments, expanding their capabilities through automation and meeting aggressive sales targets. Currently the Director of Sales, Software & Strategic Solutions for RICOH Graphic Communications, Matt has been guiding the strategic direction and planning for the Avanti Sales and Solutions Architect teams, driving to overachieve the company’s print MIS sales goals since 2013 across North America and the UK. Mr. Prusa is a graduate of the University of Missouri, Kansas City with a Master in Business Administration in addition to holding Public Accounting and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certifications.