Another crucial link for a consultant is to identify a project champion. A project champion is someone from the customer organization. Let's look at what a project champion does in a BI project:
- Gives you an overview
- Helps you in understanding organizational hierarchy
- Helps you to identify organizational goals and objectives
- Helps you to identify and meet key people
- Helps you in defining KPI and helps in getting sign-offs
- Helps to set the right expectations in the project
- Helps you to understand the business challenges
- Helps you to identify factors driving business adoption
- Helps you to define success factors
- Helps in the UAT phase
- Drives the BI initiative after the consultant's role is over
As you can see, a project champion plays a critical role. For a project champion, rolling out the BI solution could be the most important factor, and...
