Actionable Intelligence : A Guide to Delivering Business Results with Big Data Fast!.
Keith B. Carter
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (226 pages)
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Intro -- Actionable Intelligence: A Guide to Delivering Business Results with Big Data Fast! -- Contents -- Preface -- A Vision of What Could Be: The Hospital Information System -- Benefits of Actionable Intelligence -- How to Use This Book -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Vision of Actionable Intelligence -- The Challenge at Hand -- The Big Data Lie -- Actionable Intelligence: The Road and the Destination -- Business Discovery -- Improving Outcomes -- Stages of Actionable Intelligence: Getting Ready for the Journey by Knowing Where You Are and Where to Go -- No Facts . . . So, Use Your Gut? -- Invested Money and Time but Not Yet Receiving Tangible Benefits -- Local Hero -- Intelligence Leader (Enterprise Actionable intelligence Capabilities) -- Growing People's Capabilities on Actionable Intelligence -- Are You Ready to Take the First Step? -- Why Is It Called Actionable Intelligence and Not Analytics or Big Data? -- Summary and Considerations -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Discovery of the Business Situation (Business Discovery) -- Government Intelligence -- Ask the Questions -- Answer the Questions: Business Discovery -- Business Discovery Example -- Visual Consistency and the First Tool -- Gaining Support with Our First Tool: Global Inventory Tool -- Off to the Races -- Summary and Considerations -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Creating a Foundation of Data -- Building the Foundation -- Benefits of Having the Right Data -- The Data Challenge -- Acquire Data in Four Consistent Steps -- Step 1: Identify the Data Needed and Gather Data from the Known Sources -- Step 2: Document the Acquisition Process into the Data Dictionary -- Step 3: Determine the Data Owners, Validate the Data with Them, and Create a Data Dashboard for Those Owners -- Step 4: Implement Changes in People, Processes, and Systems to Improve Data Quality.. - Governing the Use of Actionable Intelligence and Establishing Data Security -- For Better, for Worse -- Google Cheat View -- Safety First -- Protect the Hard Work -- Encounter with an Alleged Russian FSB Agent -- Everyone on Security Detail -- Spying on Your Intelligence Organization, the Most Important Work! -- Summary and Considerations -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Sustaining Delivery of Actionable Intelligence -- Leading Intelligence -- Quick Wins to Build Trust -- Dashboards and Cockpits -- Hiring Done Right for Big Data with Big Data -- Wait! Don't Hire That Guy Too Fast! -- Training -- Sustainable Training Model -- Business Cultural Change -- Use Actionable Intelligence as a Tool, Not a Weapon -- How You Can Enact Cultural Change with Psychology -- Communication -- Knowledge Lock‐In -- What's Next? -- Summary and Considerations -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Tying It All Together -- Clifford Siegel's Journey at Lifetime Brands -- Starting the Right Way -- Finding the Right Pitch -- Developing a Mission and Strategy for Intelligence Capabilities -- Step 1: Let People Provide Ideas -- Step 2: Ensure Collaboration between the Business and IT -- Step 3: Define How to Measure Success -- Step 4: Engage the Organization Top to Bottom and, as Usual, Work Iteratively -- TIE: The Intelligent Enterprise at STATS ChipPAC with Elizabeth Lim -- Business-Led versus IT‐Led -- The Recipe to Greatness -- Summary and Considerations -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Next Frontiers -- A Healthier Lifestyle with Actionable Intelligence -- The Street-Smart Cabbies -- The Amplified Customer Experience -- Selling Better -- Serve Me Better . . . But Don't Intrude on My Private Life -- Getting Started -- The Starbucks Experience -- Summary and Considerations -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Epilogue -- Four Steps of Actionable Intelligence -- About the Author -- About the Contributors -- Index -- EULA.. - The Byproduct: Master Data Management -- Data Management Issues in the Spotlight -- The Data Supply Chain -- Build the House -- Summary and Considerations -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Visualization -- Complete Circle -- So Now, How Can You Do It? -- The Way Ahead -- Example of Iterative Visualization to Solve the Question "How Do I Get There Quickly, Safely, Efficiently?": Leveraging Global Positioning System Data -- Effective Visualizations: Tell a Story to Your Mind -- Noticing Visualization Pitfalls -- The Post Hoc Fallacy -- Summary and Considerations -- Notes -- Chapter 5 The Initial Answers -- Attempting to Regularly Capture Benefits, False Starts, and a Rhythm -- The Results of Actionable Intelligence Delivered -- The Power of Quotes -- Possibilities with Actionable Intelligence -- Social Media Sentiments -- Execution Excellence -- Prediction of Future Performance -- Cost Management -- Mergers and Acquisitions -- Manufacturing, Operations, and Quality -- Testing and Getting the Right Formula -- Health Care and Healthier Living -- Attracting and Retaining Customers -- Business Capabilities for Insurers -- Pricing Optimization -- Almost Done? -- Summary and Considerations -- Note -- Chapter 6 Time for Change -- Collaborative Business Planning -- What Is Collaborative Business Planning? -- Linking Collaboration to Actionable Intelligence -- Ground Zero -- A Continuing Challenge -- Collaborative Business Planning Health Check -- Summary and Considerations -- Chapter 7 Governance: Funding Intelligence, Protecting the Results -- An Actionable Intelligence Governance Methodology -- Methodology for Fast-Tracking Projects -- Governing Does Not Stop with Approving -- Every Project Should Have a Measurement for Success -- Governance Does Not Stop with Results Either -- Intelligence Budgeting -- Remember the Key Points of the UPS Story -- Key Budget Categories.. - Building an analysis ecosystem for a smarter approach to intelligence Keith 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 information Big 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.
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| ISBN | 1-118-92065-1
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