Delivering Business Analytics: Practical Guidelines for Best Practice: 50 (Wiley and SAS Business Series) - Hardcover

Stubbs, Evan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1118370562 ISBN 13: 9781118370568

Publisher: Wiley, 2013

Synopsis

AVOID THE MISTAKES THAT OTHERS MAKE – LEARN WHAT LEADS TO BEST PRACTICE AND KICKSTART SUCCESS

This groundbreaking resource provides comprehensive coverage across all aspects of business analytics, presenting proven management guidelines to drive sustainable differentiation. Through a rich set of case studies, author Evan Stubbs reviews solutions and examples to over twenty common problems spanning managing analytics assets and information, leveraging technology, nurturing skills, and defining processes.

Delivering Business Analytics also outlines the Data Scientist’s Code, fifteen principles that when followed ensure constant movement towards effective practice. Practical advice is offered for addressing various analytics issues; the advantages and disadvantages of each issue’s solution; and how these solutions can optimally create organizational value.

With an emphasis on real-world examples and pragmatic advice throughout, Delivering Business Analytics provides a reference guide on:

• The economic principles behind how business analytics leads to competitive differentiation
• The elements which define best practice
• The Data Scientist’s Code, fifteen management principles that when followed help teams move towards best practice
• Practical solutions and frequent missteps to twenty-four common problems across people and process, systems and assets, and data and decision-making

Drawing on the successes and failures of countless organizations, author Evan Stubbs provides a densely packed practical reference on how to increase the odds of success in designing business analytics systems and managing teams of data scientists.

Uncover what constitutes best practice in business analytics and start achieving it with Delivering Business Analytics.

About this title

About the Author

EVAN STUBBS is the Chief Analytics Officer for SAS Australia / New Zealand and sits on the board of the Institute of Analytics Professionals of Australia. He is a prolific speaker and evangelist for the power of analytics, having written The Value of Business Analytics, a book explaining why some teams succeed while others fail. Over the years, he has developed human-machine interfaces for concept cars and models that predict criminal behavior, and has helped organizations establish analytical centers of excellence.

From the Back Cover

DELIVERING BUSINESS ANALYTICS

Practical Guidelines for Best Practice

Delivering Business Analytics offers guidance for succeeding on a day-to-day basis, equipping designers and solution architects with an essential, keep-by-your-side reference. Whether you're a manager, an analyst, or part of a newly created or mature team, this pragmatic, how-to guide gives you the answers to defining and driving best practice in business analytics.

This groundbreaking resource provides comprehensive coverage across all aspects of business analytics, presenting proven management guidelines to drive sustainable differentiation. Through a rich set of case studies, author Evan Stubbs reviews solutions and examples for over twenty common problems spanning managing analytics assets and information, leveraging technology, nurturing skills, and defining processes.

Delivering Business Analytics also outlines the Data Scientist's Code, fifteen principles that when followed ensure constant movement toward effective practice. Practical advice is offered for addressing various analytics issues; the advantages and disadvantages of each issue's solution; and how these solutions can optimally create organizational value.

Read Delivering Business Analytics and get the edge you need to make your job easier with proven solutions for:

• Defining what constitutes best practices
• Eliminating bottlenecks in delivery
• Owning your intellectual property
• Effectively managing analytical data
• Coping with information overload
• Driving value through operational analytics

Through a variety of practical examples and pragmatic advice, Delivering Business Analytics helps newly established Chief Data Scientists and grizzled analysts build the right management structures and guiding principles to support an enterprise-level execution that delivers.

From the Inside Flap

DELIVERING BUSINESS ANALYTICS

Practical Guidelines for Best Practice

Delivering Business Analytics offers guidance for succeeding on a day-to-day basis, equipping designers and solution architects with an essential, keep-by-your-side reference. Whether you're a manager, an analyst, or part of a newly created or mature team, this pragmatic, how-to guide gives you the answers to defining and driving best practice in business analytics.

This groundbreaking resource provides comprehensive coverage across all aspects of business analytics, presenting proven management guidelines to drive sustainable differentiation. Through a rich set of case studies, author Evan Stubbs reviews solutions and examples for over twenty common problems spanning managing analytics assets and information, leveraging technology, nurturing skills, and defining processes.

Delivering Business Analytics also outlines the Data Scientist's Code, fifteen principles that when followed ensure constant movement toward effective practice. Practical advice is offered for addressing various analytics issues; the advantages and disadvantages of each issue's solution; and how these solutions can optimally create organizational value.

Read Delivering Business Analytics and get the edge you need to make your job easier with proven solutions for:

• Defining what constitutes best practices
• Eliminating bottlenecks in delivery
• Owning your intellectual property
• Effectively managing analytical data
• Coping with information overload
• Driving value through operational analytics

Through a variety of practical examples and pragmatic advice, Delivering Business Analytics helps newly established Chief Data Scientists and grizzled analysts build the right management structures and guiding principles to support an enterprise-level execution—that delivers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118370562
• ISBN 13: 9781118370568
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368