Gregory S Nelson - The Analytics Lifecycle Toolkit: A Practical Guide for an Effective Analytics Capability

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 3
3. Chapter 4
4. Chapter 5
5. Chapter 6
6. Chapter 7
7. Chapter 8
8. Chapter 10
9. Chapter 11

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 7
8. Chapter 8
9. Chapter 9
10. Chapter 10
11. Chapter 11
12. Chapter 12
13. Chapter 13

Gregory S. Nelson

The Wiley & SAS Business Series presents books that help senior-level managers with their critical management decisions.

Titles in the Wiley & SAS Business Series include:

• The Analytic Hospitality Executive by Kelly A. McGuire
• The Analytics Lifecycle Toolkit: A Practical Guide for an Effective Analytics Capability by Gregory S. Nelson
• Analytics: The Agile Way by Phil Simon
• Analytics in a Big Data World: The Essential Guide to Data Science and Its Applications by Bart Baesens
• Bank Fraud: Using Technology to Combat Losses by Revathi Subramanian
• Big Data Analytics: Turning Big Data into Big Money by Frank Ohlhorst
• Big Data, Big Innovation: Enabling Competitive Differentiation through Business Analytics by Evan Stubbs
• Business Analytics for Customer Intelligence by Gert Laursen
• Business Intelligence Applied: Implementing an Effective Information and Communications Technology Infrastructure by Michael Gendron
• Business Intelligence and the Cloud: Strategic Implementation Guide by Michael S. Gendron
• Business Transformation: A Roadmap for Maximizing Organizational Insights by Aiman Zeid
• Connecting Organizational Silos: Taking Knowledge Flow Management to the Next Level with Social Media by Frank Leistner
• Data-Driven Healthcare: How Analytics and BI Are Transforming the Industry by Laura Madsen
• Delivering Business Analytics: Practical Guidelines for Best Practice by Evan Stubbs
• Demand-Driven Forecasting: A Structured Approach to Forecasting, Second Edition by Charles Chase
• Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment: Creating a More Efficient Supply Chain by Robert A. Davis
• Developing Human Capital: Using Analytics to Plan and Optimize Your Learning and Development Investments by Gene Pease, Barbara Beresford, and Lew Walker
• The Executive's Guide to Enterprise Social Media Strategy: How Social Networks Are Radically Transforming Your Business by David Thomas and Mike Barlow
• Economic and Business Forecasting: Analyzing and Interpreting Econometric Results by John Silvia, Azhar Iqbal, Kaylyn Swankoski, Sarah Watt, and Sam Bullard
• Economic Modeling in the Post Great Recession Era: Incomplete Data, Imperfect Markets by John Silvia, Azhar Iqbal, and Sarah Watt House
• Enhance Oil & Gas Exploration with Data Driven Geophysical and Petrophysical Models by Keith Holdaway and Duncan Irving
• Foreign Currency Financial Reporting from Euros to Yen to Yuan: A Guide to Fundamental Concepts and Practical Applications by Robert Rowan
• Harness Oil and Gas Big Data with Analytics: Optimize Exploration and Production with Data Driven Models by Keith Holdaway
• Health Analytics: Gaining the Insights to Transform Health Care by Jason Burke
• Heuristics in Analytics: A Practical Perspective of What Influences Our Analytical World by Carlos Andre Reis Pinheiro and Fiona McNeill
• Human Capital Analytics: How to Harness the Potential of Your Organization's Greatest Asset by Gene Pease, Boyce Byerly, and Jac Fitz-enz
• Implement, Improve, and Expand Your Statewide Longitudinal Data System: Creating a Culture of Data in Education by Jamie McQuiggan and Armistead Sapp
• Intelligent Credit Scoring: Building and Implementing Better Credit Risk Scorecards, Second Edition by Naeem Siddiqi
• JMP Connections by John Wubbel
• Killer Analytics: Top 20 Metrics Missing from Your Balance Sheet by Mark Brown
• Machine Learning for Marketers: Hold the Math by Jim Sterne
• On-Camera Coach: Tools and Techniques for Business Professionals in a Video-Driven World by Karin Reed
• A Practical Guide to Analytics for Governments: Using Big Data for Good by Marie Lowman
• Predictive Analytics for Human Resources by Jac Fitz-enz and John Mattox II
• Predictive Business Analytics: Forward-Looking Capabilities to Improve Business Performance by Lawrence Maisel and Gary Cokins
• Profit Driven Business Analytics: A Practitioner's Guide to Transforming Big Data into Added Value by Wouter Verbeke, Cristian Bravo, and Bart Baesens
• Retail Analytics: The Secret Weapon by Emmett Cox
• Social Network Analysis in Telecommunications by Carlos Andre Reis Pinheiro
• Statistical Thinking: Improving Business Performance, Second Edition by Roger W. Hoerl and Ronald D. Snee
• Strategies in Biomedical Data Science: Driving Force for Innovation by Jay Etchings
• Style & Statistics: The Art of Retail Analytics by Brittany Bullard
• Taming the Big Data Tidal Wave: Finding Opportunities in Huge Data Streams with Advanced Analytics by Bill Franks
• Too Big to Ignore: The Business Case for Big Data by Phil Simon
• Using Big Data Analytics: Turning Big Data into Big Money by Jared Dean
• The Value of Business Analytics: Identifying the Path to Profitability by Evan Stubbs
• The Visual Organization: Data Visualization, Big Data, and the Quest for Better Decisions by Phil Simon
• Win with Advanced Business Analytics: Creating Business Value from Your Data by Jean Paul Isson and Jesse Harriott

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