Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning

Win with Advanced Business Analytics: A book review by Bob Morris

January 6, 2013

Win with Advanced Business Analytics: Creating Business Value from Your Data Jean-Paul Isson and Jesse Harriott John Wiley & Sons (2012) How to leverage business analytics to create value for everyone involved in the given enterprise Most of what I…

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Business Analytics for Managers: A book review by Bob Morris

August 15, 2012

Business Analytics for Managers: Taking Business Intelligence Beyond Reporting Gert H.N. Laursen and Jesper Thorlund John Wiley & Sons (2010) How and why making decisions based on “huge, noisy, messy data” requires business analytics Although business analytics can probably be traced back at least to Frederick Winslow Taylor’s…

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The Value of Business Analytics: A book review by Bob Morris

August 7, 2012

The Value of Business Analytics: Identifying the Path to Profitability Evan Stubbs John Wiley & Sons (2011) How and why the success of selling the value of analytics depends on four key activities Although business analytics can probably be traced back at least to Frederick Winslow…

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Competing on Analytics: A book review by Bob Morris

June 20, 2011

Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris Harvard Business School Press (2007) In this volume, Thomas Davenport and Jeanne Harris explain how to become an analytical competitor: “an organization that uses analytics…

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You know you are competing on analytics when….

February 21, 2011

In an article that appeared in Harvard Business Review (January 2006), Thomas H. Davenport explains how to become an analytics competitor: champion analytics from the top, create a single analytics initiative, focus on your analytics efforts, establish an analytics culture,…

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