Actionable intelligence: a guide to delivering business results with big data fast!

by Keith B. Carter

Building an analysis ecosystem for a smarter approach to intelligenceKeith Carter's" Actionable Intelligence: A Guide to Delivering Business Results with Big Data Fast! "is the comprehensive guide to achieving the dream that business intelligence practitioners have been chasing since the concept itself came into being. Written by an IT visionary with extensive global supply chain experience and insight, this book describes what happens when team members have accurate, reliable, usable, and timely information at their fingertips. With a focus on leveraging big data, the book provides expert guidance on developing an analytical ecosystem to effectively manage, use the internal and external information to deliver business results.This book is written by an author who's been in the trenches for people who are in the trenches. It's for practitioners in the real world, who know delivering results is easier said than done fraught with failure, and difficult politics. A landscape where reason and passion are needed to make a real difference.This book lays out the appropriate way to establish a culture of fact-based decision making, innovation, forward looking measurements, and appropriate high-speed governance. Readers will enable their organization to: Answer strategic questions fasterReduce data acquisition time and increase analysis time to improve outcomesShift the focus to positive results rather than past failuresExpand opportunities by more effectively and thoughtfully leveraging informationBig data makes big promises, but it cannot deliver without the right recipe of people, processes and technology in place. It's about choosing the right people, giving them the right tools, and taking a thoughtful rather than formulaic--approach. "Actionable Intelligence" provides expert guidance toward envisioning, budgeting, implementing, and delivering real benefits."

Genres: Business

226 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2014

Reviews

[Hansini Raghavan · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must read to get the know - how of travelling from having no data --> to getting the right data --> drawing insights

[Cherie Heng · Rating 3 out of 5]

Generic introduction to how actionable intelligence can bridge the gap caused by big data. Useful if new to the scene. I appreciated the examples of how actionable intelligence can improve customer-business relationships, such as by making fairer payment systems.

[Kishari Sing · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic. Real world examples of managing data for business decisions--including how to talk to other departments and get them to get beyond the fear and habit of "withholding data is power" mentality. Easy read, super helpful.

[Surendra Pathak · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was a jumbo word salad that gets harder to finish the more you read it.

[Clement · Rating 5 out of 5]

There's so much talk about using big data to make changes and insights to your company. However, not all executives are data-savvy and so, there is a gap between information and insight. This book bridges that gap by transforming information to insight. A must read for the new era ahead.

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