Adopting Power BI
The subject of an organization adopting a disruptive technology such as Power BI is a vast and complex subject and a complete treatment of this subject is beyond the scope of this book. However, this section introduces the topic and provides the essential strategies for adopting Power BI within an organization.
Adoption as covered here is the diffusion of a disruptive technology within an organization. It means that a technology progresses from being used infrequently by a small percentage of an organization to being used by the entire organization on a daily basis. Power BI, a self-service business intelligence technology, should be viewed as a disruptive technology that must be evangelized in order to promote its use throughout an organization.
The basic underpinnings of the diffusion of technology within a society is a well-researched subject within scientific literature, popularized in 1962 by Everett Rodger's seminal work, Diffusion of Innovation....