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Data warehouse support people should be physically located in the business user departments, and while on assignment, should spend all their waking hours devoted to the business content of the departments they serve. Such a relationship engenders trust and credibility with the business users, which ultimately is the “gold coin” for IT. Mistake
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Ralph Kimball (The Kimball Group Reader: Relentlessly Practical Tools for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Remastered Collection)
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So our CORE PROPOSITION was: ‘This was an opportunity to acquire currently cutthroat competing businesses at distressed values where an immediate uplift in value would be derived from (a) the reduction in competition and (b) the synergies from joint purchasing, IT warehousing, and management.’ Seven warehouses would be reduced to three, two merchandising teams to one and two finance teams to one.
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Bill Ferris (Inside Private Equity: Thrills, spills and lessons by the author of Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained)