Why BI fails in the Last Mile

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Your dashboards look great. Data is clean. Access is granted.
So why aren't decisions happening?

Because most BI doesn't fail on data. It fails between insight and action. That gap is the Last Mile. And 70–80% of BI initiatives stall there.

This webinar shows why it happens and how top teams fix it.

Presenter:

Andrej Lapajne

Founder, Zebra BI

Presenter:

Tine Ozimič

Head of BI at Zebra BI

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Your BI looks successful. Until you try to use it.

THE PROBLEM

The pattern is always the same:

You invest in Power BI. Dashboards are built. Data is cleaned. Execs sign off. Launch day looks good.

Six months later, Excel is still running the business.

Finance exports dashboards to add commentary. Sales asks, "Okay, but what should we do?" Board decks live in PowerPoint. Meetings explain dashboards instead of making decisions.

That's not a tooling problem. That's the Last Mile problem.

Four ways BI fails after go-live

Dashboards explain the past, not the decision

Leaders want what's off plan, why, and what we're doing about it. Most dashboards stop halfway.

Teams spend 60–80% of time interpreting

That ratio should be flipped. Too much time analyzing, not enough time acting.

Insights live outside decision workflows

ERP here. CRM there. Dashboards somewhere else. Friction kills momentum.

BI teams become bottlenecks

Every new question means a new dashboard. IT optimizes for structure. The business optimizes for speed. These incentives don't align.

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The Last Mile is where value leaks out

WHY THIS KEEPS HAPPENING

The Last Mile is the gap between seeing an insight and acting on it.

Most organizations lose 60–80% of their analytics value here and don't notice until they ask: "Why did we invest all this money if decisions aren't faster?"

Traditional BI is built for analysts. Not for decision-makers.

Dashboards mirror data models, not decisions. Insights need translation before anyone can act.

The evidence is consistent:

70–80% of BI projects miss their objectives. Not because of data but because of what happens after launch.

Only 29% of employees use analytics tools even as BI investment keeps rising.

60–73% of enterprise data goes unused. The data exists. The action doesn't.

78–92% of executives blame culture, not tech. Communication. Workflow. Ownership. The Last Mile.

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What top performers do differently

High-performing organizations don't buy better dashboards. They invest differently.

Research shows:

90% of top performers allocate 50%+ of their analytics budget to the Last Mile

Most companies spend less than 25%.

That gap, not the BI tool, separates leaders from laggards.

THE Solution

What you’ll learn

This webinar gives you pattern recognition, not theory.

A shared language for the Last Mile

Explain what's broken without blaming tools or teams.

How top teams invest their analytics budget

What "50% in the Last Mile" means in practice.

The three gaps killing adoption

Insight-to-Action, Workflow Disruption, Communication. Know how to spot each and what it costs you.

Three questions to ask your BI team tomorrow

Immediate diagnostics. No new tools.

What decision-ready analytics actually looks like

Real before/after examples. Reports designed for decisions, not databases.

Part 1 of a 3-part series

SERIES CONTEXT

Most teams stop after understanding the problem.

This series takes you from problem through solution to proof.

Part 1 • Feb. 26, 2026

Why BI fails in the Last Mile

Why BI stalls after dashboards go live and why this is systemic, not technical.

Outcome: A shared language for the problem.

Part 2 • Mar. 26, 2026

How teams cross the Last Mile

What decision-ready analytics looks like. Why standards like IBCS drive clarity, not aesthetics.

Outcome: A practical model for action-driven analytics.

Part 3 • Apr. 23, 2026

How teams actually did It

Real examples from teams who closed the gap. What changed in behavior, not just reports.

Outcome: Confidence to apply this approach.

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Who should watch this?

This webinar is for teams who already have BI but aren't seeing the impact they expected.

BI Developers & Analytics Leaders

You build great dashboards. Adoption is low. Change requests are constant. You're told to "drive more value" with no additional resources. This shows you what's missing.

Finance Leaders & Controllers

Your team spends days on monthly reporting cycles. You export dashboards to Excel to add commentary. You translate BI outputs into PowerPoint for executives. This is for you.

Senior Analysts & FP&A Teams

Your insights don't stick after meetings. Executives ask "what should we do?" after seeing your reports. Decisions lag despite clean data. You need this.

Power BI Teams Under Pressure

You're a bottleneck for every insight request. Self-service BI isn't working. You're doing everything the BI playbook says and it's still not enough. This framework helps.

So amazing, even Microsoft uses it for internal reporting.

Learn from people who've seen this pattern hundreds of times

Andrej Lapajne

Founder, Zebra BI

Andrej brings 25 years of experience in business intelligence and software development and 20 years as a consultant. Helping numerous international and regional companies achieve consistent and efficient internal reporting throughout the organization inspired him to build Zebra BI.

Tine Ozimič

Head of BI at Zebra BI

Tine is the Head of Business Intelligence at Zebra BI with nearly 6 years of experience leading the BI team. He specializes in empowering organizations to transform complex data into actionable insights, working closely with BI specialists across all departments to implement strategic solutions that drive confident decision-making throughout the organization.

Why BI fails in the Last Mile

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