Identifying business questions
Before
you create a QMF Visionary world, identify your business questions. What
does your Board of Directors, business associate, or customer want
to know? Here are some examples:
- How do gross
sales fluctuate over the year?
- How do sales for each store location vary?
- How do sales of individual types of merchandise vary for each
store?
- How do sales of specific merchandise correlate with advertising
spending? (Which of our advertising plans is actually bringing in
more receipts? Which is the most cost-efficient?)
- Is there merchandise we should discontinue because it is not
selling well or the profit-margin is too low?
- Are we ordering enough of a popular product for a particular
location?
- What is the organizational structure of a particular department?
- How many hits does our Web site get every day?
All of these questions can be answered and monitored in a QMF
Visionary world. Talk to the customers of your QMF Visionary world
and determine early in the process what questions you need to answer.
Note: Stay flexible about your design; the design typically
changes as you work on a world. You might discover that there are
other important business observations that might enhance your world.
Or you might discover QMF Visionary features that enhance your world's
navigation, appearance, or interactivity.
