In homage to a now-retired David Letterman, here are my top 10 signs that your company may be struggling with business intelligence:

10. Metadata and data governance in general are considered nice-to-haves
9. People in your organization believe Business Intelligence is a fancy word for reporting like sanitation engineer is for garbage man
8. Your company doesn’t have a Business Intelligence team
7. Your company has many Business Intelligence teams
6. Every project’s “lessons learned” includes “Engage BI Team earlier in the project” but no one ever does
5. Your BI Manager knows what time everyone leaves for the day
4. You started with the “What is Business Intelligence” section of the website
3. Your “data marts” consist of multiple spreadsheets and Access Databases managed by people who haven’t been promoted since the Bill Clinton Presidency
2. Your senior management read an article in InformationWeek about that guy who did that thing and, you know, big data and now you’ve been charged with “making it happen”
1. I don’t work for your company