DecisionPath Consulting

The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence
By Steve Williams and Nancy Williams

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Steve Williams
 President,
DecisionPath Consulting

During his career in industry, Steve has held positions in general management, program management, operations, business development, financial management, systems engineering, cost analysis and reporting, marketing, human resources, and administration. In total, Steve brings over 27 years of consulting and industry experience to DecisionPath's clients.

Steve is a leading advocate for leveraging business intelligence to drive profits and business results. His consulting experience includes working with leading companies and government agencies to solve business challenges in areas such as:

  • cost analysis & cost systems
  • performance management
  • financial reporting
  • portfolio planning
  • productivity improvement
  • customer segmentation
  • customer retention
  • marketing operations
  • campaign analysis
  • cash management
  • customer service
  • supply chain operations
  • inventory management

Within the business intelligence (BI) industry, Steve has demonstrated thought leadership in developing new business-driven methods and showing how to apply them in complex business situations. Since founding DecisionPath in 1999, Steve and his DecisionPath colleagues have shown clients how to connect their BI/DW initiatives to vital strategic goals and core business processes, so that BI investments deliver concrete business results. He is a co-developer of the BI Pathway method and a judge for the yearly Best Practices competition sponsored by The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI), the BI industry's premier educational organization.

Steve has written for many different business journals and magazines, including Strategic Finance, Business Trends Quarterly, Business Intelligence Journal, and DM Review. With Nancy Williams, he is co-author of The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence (Elsevier/Morgan Kaufman Publishing, 2006). He has an MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia and a B.S. in Business Management from the University of Maryland.

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