Role of Business Intelligence (BI) Cycle in Work Scheduling:An overview

The aim of every organization is to achieve its set goals and objectives as well as secure competitive advantage over its competitors.

However, these cannot be achieved or actualized if staff or workers act independently and do not share ideas. Today and prominent businesses are becoming more aware that the business intelligence of their employees is one of their primary assets. Sometimes organizational decisions cannot be effectively made with information alone; there is need for Business Intelligence Cycle. Value of Business Intelligence Cycle for an organization is described in detail. An effective Business Intelligence Cycle can give a company the competitive edge it needs to be successful work scheduling. This means that for any organization to be competitive in today's global world there is need for combination or pooling together of ideas by employees in order to achieve teamwork; this is in support of the saying that 'two good heads are better than one'. The relevance of BI Cycle for work scheduling is mention in this paper. For the implementation phase different BI techniques are used like Decision Engineering, Aggregate Planning and we finally succeeded to implement the BI Cycle at work schedule to validate it with the managers and executives in a firm. For the executives, the system is able to provide analytical reports and dashboards. We have also considered the system's development lifecycle that has to be flexible and easy to fulfil. This paper has tried to explain the process of knowledge creation with the help of case examples.