Keeping Up With the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding + Using Analytics

Davenport, Tom

ISBN 10 : 1622314522 ISBN 13 : 9781622314522

Editeur : Highbridge Company, 2014

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

"Quantitative literacy" for managers: How to develop basic analytical skills and be a more informed consumer of data. We're moving beyond the information age into the quantitative information age. This book promises to become your "quantitative literacy" guide - helping you develop the analytical skills needed in today's world of work, no matter your role or experience. As a successful manager today, you need to be a more informed consumer of data, more conversant with analytical thinking and methods, and better at working with quantitative information. In Keeping Up with the Quants, authors and professors Tom Davenport and Jin-ho Kim offer the tools to enhance your thinking and decision-making. You'll walk away with a basic understanding of today's necessary skills including: How to formulate a hypothesis; How to gather and analyze relevant data; How to interpret and communicate results; How to develop habits of quantitative thinking; and, How to deal effectively with the "quants" in your organization. If you don't have a business degree or you aren't comfortable with statistics and quant methods, this book is for you. Keeping Up with the Quants will give you the new skills you need to compete - and succeed.

Biographie de l'auteur

Tom Davenport is a renowned thought-leader who has helped hundreds of companies worldwide to revitalize their management practices. He combines his interests in business, research, and academia as the President's Distinguished Professor in Management and Information Technology at Babson College and as a Visiting Professor at the Harvard Business School for the 2012-2013 academic year. He's also co-founder and research director of the International Institute for Analytics, and a Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics. Davenport is the author of eight books including the Competing on Analytics and Analytics at Work. Jin-ho Kim is professor of statistics at the National Defense University in Korea and the research director of the KNDU Lab for Analytics Research. He holds a PhD from Wharton and has published six books in Korea, including the bestselling 100 Common Senses in Statistics and Freak Statistics. He has been a columnist for the Korea Economic Daily, and consults to a wide variety of businesses and organizations in Korea.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Highbridge Company
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1622314522
• ISBN 13: 9781622314522
• Reliure: CD
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible