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Beyond Dashboards: Business Intelligence Tools for Program Analysis and Reporting

NTEN

AUGUST 8, 2012

More than simply graphically displaying static data, they offer trend analysis, forecasting and drill-down capabilities that can dramatically expand your insight into program performance. New York University. Business Intelligence tools, or "BI" tools, take the dashboard idea to the next level.

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Case Study: Death With Dignity National Center Applies Lessons from the Nonprofit Technology Leadership Academy

NTEN

JUNE 4, 2013

Gaining buy-in early on, soliciting bids and conducting an ROI analysis helped Death With Dignity National Center prioritize its top technology projects and prepare to develop metrics for evaluation. Kimberlee Roth. Prior to the Academy, DWD was "keeping the lights on" as far as technology adoption and reactive in its approach. "We

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Learn From Each Other, Not Just the Data

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Using data to help your organization succeed in its mission involves achieving consensus on what success looks like, getting good data that helps drive decisions making, and performing good analysis so you understand what is and is not working. When you get your data, make sure you understand why things happen.

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Measurement Takes Center Stage in Bill Gates' 2013 Letter

NTEN

JANUARY 30, 2013

There also needs to be accountability, which I believe is a role the nonprofit community in partnership with the grant-makers need to play.

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Introducing a New NTEN Workbook: Getting Started With Data-Driven Decision Making

NTEN

JANUARY 28, 2013

It’s important that your entire team buys-in to the strategy—data collection, analysis, and reiteration is a cultural shift for many of us, and it’s something that can’t be done once or intermittently or inconsistently across your organization if we’re going to be more effective.

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Managing Technology Change: Imagine All the People

NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

2008 “Increasing the Efficacy of Emergency Departments Through Systems Analysis of Enterprise Architecture: Mitigating the Impact of Technological Change.” Tags: NPTech bev magda NTEN Newsletter change management. The George Washington University. 2 Magda, B. The George Washington University.

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Forget the Tech, Let’s Talk Mission

NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Your task here is to minimize the obstacles via the development of relationships and an organizational analysis of I.T. Tags: Change Management Newsletter NPTech NTEN Planning IT Staff. that can awaken and visualize the needs. In simple terms, this is I.T. business alignment.

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Technology Process Improvement for Nonprofits (Can Help Raise More Funds)

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Unless you want an entire troop of gorillas fighting you every step of the way, thoroughly involve your team in every part of the process analysis and decision-making. It's the 500-pound gorilla that will pick up your entire server rack, throw it out the window, and crush your nice new electric car siting below.*

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Case Study: Moving to Google Apps

NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

The first step was to create and present a proposal for the management team and get an approval. I made a SWOT analysis between an in-house server solution and Google Apps. When the analysis was done, I created a proposal with my recommendations, which was approved by October 2009.

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Intuition vs. Data: How VolunteerMatch Uses Data to Change the Way It Makes Strategic Decisions

NTEN

MAY 4, 2011

Test small, incremental changes instead of overhauling everything. Avoid using marketing hype as a substitute for your own analysis. Status Quo Bias Status Quo bias takes many forms, but in simple terms, it involves fear of change. Be prepared to return to old methods if it's not working. But visits continued to stagnate.

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Going from Accidental Techie to Technology Leader

NTEN

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Get good at cost/benefit analysis and measuring ROI. No one can think of every contingency for a project, but you can reduce the likelihood that you’ll be caught red-faced by doing your homework and asking for advice from leaders in your field. At the end of the day, you have to "show them the money." Don't fudge your costs.

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Tech Across Your Org: Sharing a Cause and Data Across Multiple Orgs

NTEN

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

During each brief webinar, we shared our analysis in quick, memorable bites , and asked organizations (if they felt comfortable) to share their Shark Week campaign plans and challenges. It turns out, Shark Week is a massive shark fan convention online, and a huge opportunity for conservationists.

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Beyond Dashboards: Business Intelligence Tools for Program Analysis and Reporting

Case Study: Death With Dignity National Center Applies Lessons from the Nonprofit Technology Leadership Academy

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Learn From Each Other, Not Just the Data

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Measurement Takes Center Stage in Bill Gates' 2013 Letter

Introducing a New NTEN Workbook: Getting Started With Data-Driven Decision Making

Managing Technology Change: Imagine All the People

Forget the Tech, Let’s Talk Mission

Technology Process Improvement for Nonprofits (Can Help Raise More Funds)

Case Study: Moving to Google Apps

Intuition vs. Data: How VolunteerMatch Uses Data to Change the Way It Makes Strategic Decisions

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Tech Across Your Org: Sharing a Cause and Data Across Multiple Orgs

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