| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
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? |
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Invested Money and Time but Not Yet Receiving Tangible BenefitsLocal 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 |
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Gaining Support with Our First Tool: Global Inventory ToolOff 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 |
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Step 4: Implement Changes in People, Processes, and Systems to Improve Data QualityThe 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 |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
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Decision making.
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Strategic planning.
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Big data.
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Decision Making
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decision making.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior.
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Big data
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Decision making
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Strategic planning
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2014027154 |
| ISBN |
9781118920602 |
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1118920600 |
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9781118920657 |
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1118920651 |
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1118915232 |
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9781118915233 |
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9781322044927 |
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1322044929 |
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