April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
2h 28m
English
book
Strategic Analytics: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
by Harvard Business Review, Eric Siegel, Edward L. Glaeser, Cassie Kozyrkov, Thomas H. Davenport
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Contents
- Introduction
- What Makes Analytics Strategic
- They make your strategy or business model possible.
- by Thomas H. Davenport
- Section 1
- Understanding Analytics Basics
- 1. The Five Essential Elements for Succeeding with Data
- And the costs of missing any.
- by Thomas C. Redman
- 2. Understanding the Types of Data and How They’re Captured
- Increase your data literacy.
- by Hugo Bowne-Anderson
- 3. The Right Way to Deploy Predictive Analytics
- Focus first on your team, then on technology.
- by Eric Siegel
- 4. What Great Data Analysts Do
- And why every organization needs them.
- by Cassie Kozyrkov
- 5. What Data Is and Isn’t Good For
- Numbers rarely reveal the “why.”
- by Joel Shapiro
- Section 2
- Becoming an Analytics-Driven Organization
- 6. Prioritize ...
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