First, if you’re only approaching BI as a project, you’re missing the opportunity to think and act broadly. As ZapThink’s Ronald Schmelzer explained back in 2008, project-focused thinking isn’t working anymore:

Companies that have no plans to do any sort of heterogeneous application development or composition, or who have the time and budget they need to deal with constantly expanding projects in the face of continuously expanding complexity can afford to do discrete IT project management. But for the rest of us, any movement we make to try to bring the organization’s systems together into a predictable, composable, governed, loosely-coupled, and potentially reusable set of assets, or in other words, to apply any real Enterprise Architecture, will require that we stop doing IT project management in a discrete fashion and treat IT as a continuously evolving asset.

Read the entire article at http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/better-bi-requires-strategic-approach-to-data/?cs=47584.