Think Fast!: The insight you need to compete and win with self-service analytics - Softcover

Steffine, Gregory P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1732010803 ISBN 13: 9781732010802

Publisher: Sanderson Press, 2018

Synopsis

Get the knowledge you need to confidently plan and execute an analytics strategy that helps you to out-think and out-perform your competitors.

Your organization is under intense pressure to create value, and that’s why business leaders are turning to analytics for help. But you can’t effectively use information to sell more, spend less, and work smarter—and do it with the speed and agility business leaders require—unless you understand the 26 most important aspects of people, process, technology, and data that make analytics work.

In Think Fast!, award-winning multi-book author Greg Steffine takes his nearly three decades of experience helping some of the most recognizable names in business become smarter, faster-moving organizations and combines it with informative perspectives from other experienced pros. The result is an essential, quick-read guide that empowers you to compete and win.

The objective of self-service analytics is to create value from data. Think Fast! helps by demystifying data analytics and presenting you with practical, concrete takeaways around the most important and often-forgotten aspects of people, process, technology, and data. This book is chock-full of practical tips from years of hands-on field work. In it you’ll learn about:

• Organizational alignment, the role of collaboration, and the significance of team make-up
• Setting priorities, balancing risk and reward, and selling your vision
• The right architecture, the place for big data, and the confusing analytics landscape
• Preparing data, the science behind it, and privacy

Plus, you will walk away with a strong, foundational understanding of analytics, the analytics journey, and its value-creation objective.

Get Think Fast! today and discover the insights you need to drive analytics success. Your boss (and your career) will thank you.

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Review

"The use of data is defining new business models, disrupting industries and creating valuable experiences for consumers. While the outcomes can be transformative,the journey requires more than technical proficiency. Think Fast! can position your organization's operating model to scale its analytic driven transformation and compete against the next generation of disrupters." -Paul Hlivko, VP & CTO at Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield 

"This book is the go-to bible in demystifying data analytics. I left reading this book with concrete, distinguishable takeaways in implementing a comprehensive BI environment for my clients' businesses. It is an easy read for even the busiest IT executive." Robert Stein, Executive Director, Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh

"Think Fast! sets early expectations and more crucially, stays true to them throughout, as an eminently-practical, conventional wisdom-challenging guide through the complexities and ever-shifting landscape of self-service analytics. Greg and his 'Perspectives from the Pros' colleagues cut to the core issues and tear down supposed 'truisms' found in many other analytics books that simply don't hold up to the realities of modern business. Particularly valuable to data-driven practitioners will be Think Fast's recognition of the people elements of the analytics equation, the oft-unrecognized linkage point between data and execution, as well as its well-integrated advice about the service models that make analytics sustainable and with optimized impact. Throughout the book, the context for analytics execution is never disconnected from the technical details of data science work. Technology receives a balanced treatment, with foundational definitions of key data concepts (including very timely themes of data privacy) reviewed, yet adeptly avoiding the trap of recommending technology that isn't firmly grounded in business purpose and company culture." - Evan Sinar, Ph.D., Chief Scientist and Vice President, DDI

"Think Fast! is an insightful must-read for any BI Professional trying to define and lead an agile analytics organization. It provides a well-balanced and clear perspective on self-service analytics. This is especially relevant in today's world where the nature and volume of data being produced from various sources can provide fresh insights and value to the organization." - Arun Raju, VP Enterprise Architecture - Global Corporate Platforms, Equifax

"In my experience with the world's leading companies, I've found that the key differentiators for building best-in-class products and services are a commitment to design thinking and an adherence to business intelligence best practices.  Greg Steffine delivers a primer on the latter in Think Fast!  Powerful, thoughtful and engaging, this edition will hold a place on my office bookshelf for years to come--right next to his award-winning book, Hyper!" -  Dan Grace, SVP and Director - Innovation Product Management, Bank of America

Edition details

• Publisher: Sanderson Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1732010803
• ISBN 13: 9781732010802
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172