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 book, Competing on Analytics, Thomas Davenport and Jeanne Harris showed how pioneering firms were building their entire strategies around their analytical capabilities. Rather than «going with the gut»...
Your guide to making better decisionsDespite the dizzying amount of data at our disposal today—and an increasing reliance on analytics to make the majority of our decisions—many of our most critical choices still come down to human judgment. This fact is fundamental to organizations whose leaders must often make crucial decisions: to do this they need the best available insights.In Judgment Calls, authors Tom Davenport and Brook Manville share twelve stories of organizations...
Why Everyone Needs Analytical SkillsWelcome to the age of data. No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up)—your world is awash with data.As a successful manager today, you must be able to make sense of all this information. You need to be conversant with analytical terminology and methods and able to work with quantitative...
Innovative ruptures of traditional boundaries in value chains are requiring companies to rethink how they go to market, what they need to own, what they need to retain and innovate as core competencies, and how they innovatively deal with suppliers and customers. The key message of the book is that the new knowledge-networked innovation economy requires a totally different strategic management mindset, approach and toolbox, and its major value-added is a new strategic management approach and...
Knowledge workers create the innovations and strategies that keep their firms competitive and the economy healthy. Yet, companies continue to manage this new breed of employee with techniques designed for the Industrial Age. As this critical sector of the workforce continues to increase in size and importance, that's a mistake that could cost companies their future. Thomas Davenport argues that knowledge workers are vastly different from other types of workers in their motivations,...
Ажиотаж вокруг искусственного интеллекта и его применения в классическом бизнесе не утихает, но многие компании до сих пор не понимают, какую реальную выгоду принесет им внедрение новых технологий в их бизнес-процессы. Эксперт в области аналитики и больших данных, преподаватель в Гарвардской школе бизнеса Томас Дэвенпорт в своей книге покажет, как можно эффективно интегрировать ИИ и когнитивные технологии в текущую бизнес-стратегию предприятия, чтобы сделать продукты привлекательнее, процессы...
Ажиотаж вокруг искусственного интеллекта и его применения в классическом бизнесе не утихает, но многие компании до сих пор не понимают, какую реальную выгоду принесет им внедрение новых технологий в их бизнес-процессы. Эксперт в области аналитики и больших данных, преподаватель в Гарвардской школе бизнеса Томас Дэвенпорт в своей книге покажет, как можно эффективно интегрировать ИИ и когнитивные технологии в текущую бизнес-стратегию предприятия, чтобы сделать продукты привлекательнее, процессы...
