Business intelligence tools: The four areas to consider

What can a global leader at McKinsey teach us about what business tools we need to be thinking about for growth?

Here's the foible with most discussions of business intelligence tools, IMHO. A lot of times, companies think they can throw a technological solution -- i.e. business intelligence tools -- at a problem ("pain point") and it will be automatically solved. Here's a classic example: "employee engagement." What typically happens in that space is as follows:

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