Big Data, Big Innovation: Enabling Competitive Differentiation through Business

Description: Big Data, Big Innovation by Evan Stubbs A practical guide to leveraging your data to spur innovation and growth Your business generates reams of data, but what do you do with it? Reporting is only the beginning. Your data holds the key to innovation and growth you just need the proper analytics. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A practical guide to leveraging your data to spur innovation and growth Your business generates reams of data, but what do you do with it? Reporting is only the beginning. Your data holds the key to innovation and growth – you just need the proper analytics. In Big Data, Big Innovation: Enabling Competitive Differentiation Through Business Analytics, author Evan Stubbs explores the potential gold hiding in your un-mined data. As Chief Analytics Officer for SAS Australia/New Zealand, Stubbs brings an industry insiders perspective to guide you through pattern recognition, analysis, and implementation. Big Data, Big Innovation: Enabling Competitive Differentiation Through Business Analytics details a groundbreaking approach to ensuring your companys upward trajectory. Use this guide to leverage your customer information, financial reports, performance metrics, and more to build a rock-solid foundation for future growth. Build an effective analytics team, and empower them with the right toolsLearn how big data drives both evolutionary and revolutionary innovation, and who should be responsibleIdentify data collection and analysis opportunities and implement action plansDesign the platform that suits your companys current and future needsQuantify performance with statistics, programming, and research for a more complete picture of operations Effective management means combining data, people, and analytics to create a synergistic force for innovation and growth. If you want your company to move forward with confidence, Big Data, Big Innovation: Enabling Competitive Differentiation Through Business Analytics can show you how to use what you already have and acquire what you need to succeed. Back Cover We live in interesting times-weve never been so data rich yet insight poor. Were so awash in data that weve invented new computing paradigms and systems merely to keep pace. The new normal is strange, and the disruption big data analytics implies will shake industry, society, and even our day-to-day lives. Businesses that embrace this new way of thinking will survive. Those that dont will perish. In this epoch of rapid change, failure to capitalize on the value that lies in data is perilous-the future is now and it demands action. Big Data, Big Innovation: Enabling Competitive Differentiation through Business Analytics brings an urgent voice to the need for businesses to embrace a new way of thinking and provides practical instructions on using big data analytics to support innovation throughout your organization. Evan Stubbs illuminates big data analytics like no one else does. With an insiders view into the reality of what businesses are doing and what is possible with the right approach, Stubbs links big data to innovation and differentiation. This groundbreaking approach will help IT managers and executives learn faster, act faster, act smarter, and more to compete and survive. Taking a hands-on approach, this playbook addresses not only the practicalities of big data and analytics but also the culture that needs to exist to be successful. Answering the questions often asked, this guide outlines how to identify opportunities, assemble teams and hire new specialists, cultivate the proper mindset to create a corporate incubator for data analytics progress and success, and design solutions that work in the real world. With its step-by-step approach to the massive undertaking of making big data a differentiator, the book addresses every major consideration throughout the process. Further guidance is provided once the corporate culture and programs have reached maturity to ensure continued success and the proper approach to sustaining a competitive edge. Flap We live in interesting times-weve never been so data rich yet insight poor. Were so awash in data that weve invented new computing paradigms and systems merely to keep pace. The new normal is strange, and the disruption big data analytics implies will shake industry, society, and even our day-to-day lives. Businesses that embrace this new way of thinking will survive. Those that dont will perish. In this epoch of rapid change, failure to capitalize on the value that lies in data is perilous-the future is now and it demands action. Big Data, Big Innovation: Enabling Competitive Differentiation through Business Analytics brings an urgent voice to the need for businesses to embrace a new way of thinking and provides practical instructions on using big data analytics to support innovation throughout your organization. Evan Stubbs illuminates big data analytics like no one else does. With an insiders view into the reality of what businesses are doing and what is possible with the right approach, Stubbs links big data to innovation and differentiation. This groundbreaking approach will help IT managers and executives learn faster, act faster, act smarter, and more to compete and survive. Taking a hands-on approach, this playbook addresses not only the practicalities of big data and analytics but also the culture that needs to exist to be successful. Answering the questions often asked, this guide outlines how to identify opportunities, assemble teams and hire new specialists, cultivate the proper mindset to create a corporate incubator for data analytics progress and success, and design solutions that work in the real world. With its step-by-step approach to the massive undertaking of making big data a differentiator, the book addresses every major consideration throughout the process. Further guidance is provided once the corporate culture and programs have reached maturity to ensure continued success and the proper approach to sustaining a competitive edge. Author Biography EVAN STUBBS is the Chief Analytics Officer for SAS Australia/New Zealand and a board member of the Institute of Analytics Professionals of Australia. He has driven innovation within General Motors, transformed organizations into analytical competitors, and advises leadership teams globally on how to survive the upcoming storm. Table of Contents Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii Part One May You Live in Interesting Times 1 Chapter 1 Lead or Get Out of the Way 3 The Future is Now 3 The Secret is Leadership 5 Notes 7 Chapter 2 Disruption as a Way of Life 9 The Age of Uncertainty 10 The Emergence of Big Data 15 Rise of the Rnin 21 The Knowledge Rush 26 Systematized Chaos 31 Notes 36 Part Two Understanding Culture and Capability 41 Chapter 3 The Cultural Imperative 47 Intuitive Action 48 Truth Seeking 55 Value Creation 62 Functional Innovation 69 Revolutionary Disruption 75 Notes 78 Chapter 4 The Intelligent Enterprise 79 Level 1: Unstructured Chaos 80 Level 2: Structured Chaos 84 Levels 3–5: The Intelligent Enterprise 89 Notes 93 Part Three Making It Real 95 Chapter 5 Organizational Design 101 What Should It Look Like? 102 What Should It Focus On? 107 What Services Can It Offer? 111 What Data Does It Need? 116 Note 124 Chapter 6 Operating Models 125 Whats the Goal? 127 Whats the Enabler? 135 How Does It Create Value? 140 Notes 148 Chapter 7 Human Capital 149 What Capabilities Do I Need? 150 How Do I Get the Right People? 157 How Do I Keep Them? 162 Notes 164 Part Four Making It Happen 167 Chapter 8 Innovating with Dynamic Value 169 The Innovation Cycle 170 The Innovation Paradox 172 The Secret to Success: Dynamic Value 176 The Innovation Engine 181 Reinventing the Rnin 185 Notes 189 Chapter 9 Creating a Plan 191 Starting the Conversation 191 Defining the Vision 193 Identifying Opportunities 196 Mapping Responsibilities 198 Taking It to the Next Level 201 Note 201 Conclusion: The Final Chapter is Up to You 203 Glossary 205 About the Author 219 Index 221 Long Description Innovation, culture, and big data analytics Ignoring the big data hype and diving right into the value proposition, Big Data, Big Innovation takes a long, hard look at linking big data to innovation. This comprehensive guide to differentiation will help your organization: Hire the right people and empower them with the right culture and motivation Define the right reporting lines and organizational structure Learn how big data drives both evolutionary and revolutionary innovation Merge the agility of a start-up with the scale of a blue-chip Praise for BIG DATA, BIG INNOVATION This book is a comprehensive look at the tidal wave of change that big data is driving across the globe. It is a must-read practical guide for key decision makers in the big data space. Once again Evan has done an excellent job demystifying the how to challenge that every organization is facing today. Mark Steyn, CEO Asia Pacific, Hudson Big Data, Big Innovation joins an exclusive club as one of the very few practical guides to analytics for the businessperson. Steve Bennett, Head of Analytics and Information Management, News Corporation Evan explores the intersection of two of the biggest corporate game changers of our generation: the increasingly burgeoning amount of information available and the strategy shift from a fixation on operational performance to business innovation. Doug Laney, VP Information Innovation, Gartner Evan Stubbs new book provides great insight into driving innovation through the sea of Big Data and Business Analytics . . . don t miss out! Jay Liebowitz, Orkand Endowed Chair in Management and Technology, University of Maryland University College; editor of Big Data and Business Analytics Brilliant and scintillating read, peppered with pragmatic doses of analytical insights . . . Evan s ability to weave together a confluence of factors into a coherent and clear framework for organizations embarking on this journey makes it a remarkable read. Rahul Bhandari, Chief Analytics Officer, Cathay Pacific Asia Miles Details ISBN111872464X Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc Year 2014 ISBN-10 111872464X ISBN-13 9781118724644 Format Hardcover Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 658.4038 Media Book Pages 256 Edition 1st Short Title BIG DATA BIG INNOVATION Language English Publication Date 2014-08-19 UK Release Date 2014-08-19 NZ Release Date 2014-07-11 Author Evan Stubbs Series Wiley and SAS Business Series Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc Subtitle Enabling Competitive Differentiation through Business Analytics Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2014-08-19 AU Release Date 2014-07-10 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:78226772;

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