Thomas H. Davenport

Jeanne G. Harris

The New Science of Winning

Competing on Analytics

En un mundo donde las bases tradicionales de la ventaja competitiva se han evaporado en gran medida, ¿cómo destacar la actuación de su empresa de la del resto? Utilice la inteligencia analítica para tomar mejores decisiones y sacar el máximo valor de sus procesos empresariales. En Competing on Analytics: Inteligencia competitiva para ganar, Thomas H. Davenport y Jeanne G. Harris sostienen que la frontera hasta donde se utilizan los datos ha cambiado de forma espectacular. Las compañías líderes están haciendo algo más que simplemente recoger y almacenar información en grandes cantidades. Están construyendo sus estrategias competitivas alrededor de nuevos conocimientos basados en datos que a su vez están generando unos resultados de negocio impresionantes. ¿Su arma secreta? La inteligencia analítica: análisis cuantitativos y cualitativos sofisticados y modelos de predicción respaldados por expertos en el manejo de los datos y una potente tecnología de la información. ¿Por qué la competitividad basada en la inteligencia analítica? En una época en que las empresas de muchos sectores de actividad ofrecen productos similares y emplean tecnologías parecidas, los procesos de gestión de negocio distintivos se cuentan entre los últimos aspectos diferenciales que aún siguen vigentes. Muchas bases previas de competitividad –como la ventaja geográfica o una normativa protectora– han sido erosionados por la globalización. Las tecnologías propias y exclusivas se copian con rapidez, y las innovaciones importantes en productos o servicios son cada vez más difíciles de lograr.

Inteligencia competitiva para ganar

Competing on analytics

Robert Morison

Most companies have massive amounts of data at their disposal, yet fail to utilize it in any meaningful way. But a powerful new business tool - analytics - is enabling many firms to aggressively leverage their data in key business decisions and processes, with impressive results. In their previous book, Competing on Analytics, Thomas Davenport and Jeanne Harris showed how pioneering firms were building their entire strategies around their analytical capabilities. Rather than "going with the gut" when pricing products, maintaining inventory, or hiring talent, managers in these firms use data, analysis, and systematic reasoning to make decisions that improve efficiency, risk-management, and profits. Now, in Analytics at Work, Davenport, Harris, and coauthor Robert Morison reveal how any manager can effectively deploy analytics in day-to-day operations—one business decision at a time. They show how many types of analytical tools, from statistical analysis to qualitative measures like systematic behavior coding, can improve decisions about everything from what new product offering might interest customers to whether marketing dollars are being most effectively deployed. Based on all-new research and illustrated with examples from companies including Humana, Best Buy, Progressive Insurance, and Hotels.com, this implementation-focused guide outlines the five-step DELTA model for deploying and succeeding with analytical initiatives. You'll learn how to: · Use data more effectively and glean valuable analytical insights · Manage and coordinate data, people, and technology at an enterprise level · Understand and support what analytical leaders do · Evaluate and choose realistic targets for analytical activity · Recruit, hire, and manage analysts Combining the science of quantitative analysis with the art of sound reasoning, Analytics at Work provides a road map and tools for unleashing the potential buried in your company's data.

Smarter Decisions, Better Results

Analytics at Work

The Analytics and Big Data collection offers a “greatest hits” digital compilation of ideas from world-renowned thought leader Thomas Davenport, who helped popularize the terms analytics and big data in the workplace. An agile and prolific thinker, Davenport has written or coauthored more than a dozen bestselling books. Several of these titles are offered together for the first time in this curated digital bundle, including: Big Data at Work, Competing on Analytics, Analytics at Work, and Keeping Up with the Quants. The collection also includes Davenport’s popular Harvard Business Review articles, “Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century” (2012) and “Analytics 3.0” (2013). Combined, these works cover all the bases on analytics and big data: what each term means; the ramifications of each from a technical, consumer, and management perspective; and where each can have the biggest impact on your business. Whether you’re an executive, a manager, or a student wanting to learn more, Analytics and Big Data is the most comprehensive collection you’ll find on the ever-growing phenomenon of digital data and analysis—and how you can make this rising business trend work for you. Named one of the ten “Masters of the New Economy” by CIO magazine, Thomas Davenport has helped hundreds of companies revitalize their management practices. He combines his interests in research, teaching, and business management as the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology & Management at Babson College. Davenport has also taught at Harvard Business School, the University of Chicago, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, and the University of Texas at Austin and has directed research centers at Accenture, McKinsey & Company, Ernst & Young, and CSC. He is also an independent Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics.

Analytics and Big Data: The Davenport Collection (6 Items)

You have more information at hand about your business environment than ever before. But are you using it to “out-think” your rivals? If not, you may be missing out on a potent competitive tool. In Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning, Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris argue that the frontier for using data to make decisions has shifted dramatically. Certain high-performing enterprises are now building their competitive strategies around data-driven insights that in turn generate impressive business results. Their secret weapon? Analytics: sophisticated quantitative and statistical analysis and predictive modeling. Exemplars of analytics are using new tools to identify their most profitable customers and offer them the right price, to accelerate product innovation, to optimize supply chains, and to identify the true drivers of financial performance. A wealth of examples—from organizations as diverse as Amazon, Barclay’s, Capital One, Harrah’s, Procter & Gamble, Wachovia, and the Boston Red Sox—illuminate how to leverage the power of analytics.

Jeanne G. Harris

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