For a Power BI deployment to be successful, the participation and active involvement of different personnel and teams from the organization are crucial. But because Power BI was historically sold as a self-service tool, many organizations have lost the structure for measuring and implementing it as it grows within an organization. In this blog, you’ll learn how to structure a Power BI deployment initiative in your organization from a teams perspective.
Power BI Team #1: Center Of Excellence Team
You need a centralized authority to deploy Power BI. You need a group of experts coming together from different divisions to create an internal Center of Excellence (CoE) team. This helps generate buy-in and enables users to see the potential of Power BI.
As you go through the planning phases of Power BI deployment, you must efficiently create strategies that help speed up the implementation process. You also need to bring more scale to how you can integrate Power BI in the organization over a longer period of time. This can only come from a centralized CoE team.
Power BI Team #2: Power BI Super Users
Another key point in successful Power BI deployment is to create a group of Power BI super users. This group should contain champions that are in the direct line of communication throughout the entire business. Their job is to make sure that everybody is developing workspaces according to the master plan.
Power BI won’t work if you’re only pushing its implementation from one location. You need to branch out and reach all the divisions within your organization.
The Power BI super users group will help in obtaining consistency, excitement, and inspiration. This super group will help drive communication between departments in your business.
Power BI Team #3: Key Stakeholders
The last team that’s crucial during Power BI deployment are key stakeholders.
It’s important to include all key stakeholders during Power BI deployment. If you want to create real movement in the organization, you need to have complete buy-in from individuals that matter.
Power BI is a firm-wide commitment.
There needs to be commitment from the top to the bottom of an organization’s hierarchy. You need to convince board members that Power BI will deliver better and optimized analytics compared to any other software out there.
You can use the Enterprise DNA Showcase to present sample Power BI reports to key stakeholders. Actual demos will convince more individuals on the necessity of implementing Power BI in the organization.
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Conclusion
Power BI implementation is a firm-wide commitment. Thus, it can’t be managed by one person alone. It requires the cooperation of different teams within the organization.
Key personnel and stakeholder involvement is important in Power BI deployment because it helps to ensure that the implementation is successful and the tool is used to its full potential. When stakeholders are involved in the implementation process, they understand the value of the tool and are more likely to support it.
All the best,
Sam McKay