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A report from the International Monetary Fund.... More

A report from the International Monetary Fund.... More

A report from the International Monetary Fund.... More

IMF technical assistance provided by the Statistics Department -- toward assisting IMF member countries in developing the ability to provide reliable and comparable economic and financial data on a timely basis to policymakers and markets -- has increased more than fourfold over the past decade. Th... More

For too long, managers have relied on their intuition or their "golden gut" to make decisions. Important decisions have been based not on data, but on the experience and unaided judgment of the decision maker. Sometimes intuitive and experience-based decisions work out well, but all too often they g... More

For too long, managers have relied on their intuition or their "golden gut" to make decisions. Important decisions have been based not on data, but on the experience and unaided judgment of the decision maker. Sometimes intuitive and experience-based decisions work out well, but all too often they g... More

To develop an enterprise-wide view of analytics, a company must do more than integrate data, combine analysts, or build a corporate IT platform. It must eradicate all of the limited, piecemeal perspectives harbored by managers with their own agendas, needs, and fears - and replace them with a single... More

There is no doubt that to be a full-fledged analytical competitor, you need the CEO in your corner. However, there is also no doubt that almost any employee can move an organization in a more analytical direction. In this chapter you will learn how you can make your organization more analytical, adv... More

Every business can benefit from becoming more analytical across the board--in how it understands its customers, performs its operations, and makes decisions. But even the most analytically oriented company needs to target its analytical efforts where they will do the most good, because resources--es... More

Have you ever seen an analytically oriented firm without plenty of analytically oriented people? Though computers and data drive analytical decision making, they are not nearly as vital as people. Finding, developing, managing, and deploying analysts - the people who make the day-to-day-work of such... More

If you really want to put analytics to work in your organization, you need to make them an integral part of everyday business decisions and business processes. A cross-functional process perspective enables you to appreciate how different parts of the business work together (or fail miserably in doi... More

Culture is one of the softer elements of an organization's makeup, one that may seem incompatible with the "hard" nature of analytics. But building a culture that embraces analytics is critical if you want your firm, and all the people in it, to make better decisions based on data, facts, and rigoro... More

Being analytical - or more specifically, being successful with analytics - is not a one-time activity. Analytical competitors must constantly review and revise their approaches in light of their business strategies and business models, changing market conditions, competitor initiatives, and the expe... More

Life would be a lot simpler if putting analytics to work could be accomplished by executive decree alone. But like anything worthwhile, making your business thoroughly analytical takes effort and thought - and beginning with the end in mind. As the devoted users of analytics say, "All the analytics ... More

Hit a roadblock in putting analytics to work in your organization? In this chapter, the authors of Competing on Analytics identify the four key challenges and transition points you may encounter on the journey to greater analytical capabilities and reveal how to smoothly negotiate each step. Through... More

Most companies have massive amounts of data at their disposal, yet fail to utilize it in any meaningful way. But a powerful new business tool - analytics - is enabling many firms to aggressively leverage their data in key business decisions and processes, with impressive results.In their previous bo... More

The Analytics and Big Data collection offers a “greatest hits” digital compilation of ideas from world-renowned thought leader Thomas Davenport, who helped popularize the terms analytics and big data in the workplace. An agile and prolific thinker, Davenport has written or coauthored more than a ... More

The three essays in Image, written by leading philosophers of religion, explore the modern power of the visual at the intersection of the human and the technological.  Modern life is steeped in images, image-making, and attempts to control the world through vision. Mastery of images has been adva... More

The three essays in Image, written by leading philosophers of religion, explore the modern power of the visual at the intersection of the human and the technological.  Modern life is steeped in images, image-making, and attempts to control the world through vision. Mastery of images has been adva... More

The three essays in Image, written by leading philosophers of religion, explore the modern power of the visual at the intersection of the human and the technological.  Modern life is steeped in images, image-making, and attempts to control the world through vision. Mastery of images has been adva... More

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the be... More

With major retailers closing brick-and-mortar stores every month and the continued shift to online shopping, there is a major push to strengthen customer loyalty by improving the customer experience. The two most important qualities that consumers look for are convenience and efficiency. Finally a s... More