Implementing a technical solution to support your Balanced Scorecard (BSC) or Business Intelligence (BI) system can have major benefits for your business, but without the right knowledge, planning and Business Intelligence tools, you could be on the fast track to your own version of corporate limbo - so close to the BSC ‘heaven' you desired, yet so far away. In this blog I will attempt to describe some of the major traps - or sins - and propose ways to avoid them with help from Microsoft's BI toolset.

Despite the promises of software companies that their tools will provide your managers unparalleled insight into the ever-increasing amount of data held within your business systems, the tools themselves have no intelligence or business acumen, no matter how large or impressive their range of outputs. What makes the difference between the success