LancetCheckUp - Assessment & Insight for Your Business Intelligence Program
HOW HEALTHY IS YOUR BI PROGRAM? WE ALL NEED A CHECK-UP NOW AND THEN. Many BI programs fail to thrive because of organizational issues. A LancetCheckup™ helps you understand the status of your program and its environment. This assessment will pinpoint issues that prevent your program from delivering its full value.
RECEIVE A PERSONALIZED SCORECARD
Designed by experts in the Business Intelligence field, this unique diagnostic tool provides you with a customized view of your program. After completing the assessments, you will receive a customized four-page report with your results, interpretations and recommended next steps, as well as two hours of face-to-face time for implementation and follow-up.
The LancetCheckUp Assessment & Scorecard Overview
- Analyze the health of your BI Program
- Discover your organization's readiness for change
- Benchmark yourself against other companies
- Decide your next steps to ensure program success
- Learn your BI Program's maturity score

Who Should Participate?
The LancetCheckUp Assessment is designed for novice to experienced BI professionals. Regardless of your program's age, you can expect to gain valuable insights.
The LancetCheckUp Process
Our process involves two two-hour meetings, about one week apart. During the first meeting, we will review the goals, complete the diagnostic questionnaires and discuss any questions. At the second meeting, we will review your results and discuss recommendations and next steps.

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How to Start a BI Program
Two-Day Program
Getting started is the hardest part. Make sure you are getting off to the right start by taking this course. You will learn:
- Tips & Tricks for getting started
- Who to talk to
- Role playing for discussion
- ROI/CBA Templates
- How to market
- How to create a BI Roadmap
How to Create a BI Roadmap
Two-Day Program
Deciding what your BI program will focus on over time is a challenge. A BI roadmap is one way to create a strategy and document processes.
In 2008, Gartner released a report indicating that much of the failure of Business Intelligence programs can be attributed to the lack of vision and planning. You will learn:
- The importance of a BI roadmap to the long-term success of your program
- Requirements-gathering methodology
- How to score for objective decision-making
- Templates for completion of each phase
Need more help to write your roadmap than just two days of training? Bring our team on-site to help write your roadmap. During this eight-week effort, Lancet will gather and document requirements, facilitate scoring sessions and assist in the creation of your final roadmap.
LancetCheckUp XL
It happens to the best of us. You are heads-down, working hard to deliver your BI program and one day you look up and you've lost your sponsor, or a leadership change has called into question the value of your program. We customize this program to fit your specific needs, beginning with the LancetCheckUp Assessment and Scorecard, to determine:
- Where you fall in TDWI's BI Maturity Model
- Your Organization's readiness for change
You will receive:
- Two days of consultation
- Personalized assessment and recommendation of next steps
- Optional third day for personalized coaching, training or meeting with your sponsor and senior leadership
- Six follow-up meetings to keep you on track
All documents, templates and meeting minutes are yours to keep.
