The Business of Innovation.

"Business intelligence (BI) is a business management term which refers to applications and technologies which are used to gather, provide access to, and analyze data and information about their company operations." (lifted from Business Intelligence at Wikipedia). The authors at training magazine wrote a great little article about the business of innovation. They said, "Companies that consistently emphasize "delivering value" over creativity are significantly more effective at innovating, according to the 2007 futurethink Innovation Tracker, a survey conducted by innovation research, tools, and service firm futurethink." In my opinion, it is the act of innovation that allows for business intelligence to be a reality. Read the rest of the article at The Business of Innovation. Thanks to Jared for the tip on this article. -- Corey Smith is the Vice President of Innovation at Fisher's Document Systems where he maintains a blog on business and technology.