Business Analytics Unleashing Data Driven Decision Making

In today's dynamic and data-driven business landscape, the art and science of Business Analytics have emerged as critical tools for exploration, introspection, and informed decision-making. "Business Analytics," the book at hand, delves into the practices and competencies essential for unraveling the complexities of business performance, facilitating purposeful, intuitive, and expedient decision-making processes. The essence of Business Analytics lies in the extensive exploration of business data, aiming to extract meaningful information usable by managers across various organizational levels. This book positions Business Analytics as a catalyst for fact-based decision-making, elevating accountability in the decision-making process. It defines Business Analytics as a methodical process that involves scrutinizing and summarizing data with the explicit purpose of uncovering hidden predictive insights. This book places a particular emphasis on the science and artistry of business analytics, with a special focus on financial analytics. It not only explores the practical aspects but also lays the theoretical foundations, providing a comprehensive context for various elements of business analytics within specific business situations. A distinctive feature of this book is its commitment to showcasing the implementation of analytics by illustrating how leading companies leverage this power to enhance their investments. Acknowledging that scientific knowledge alone may not suffice for sound decision-making, the book underscores the importance of combining scientific expertise with a deep understanding of the business context and the best available information. Addressing a notable gap in existing literature, this book goes beyond traditional academic texts that predominantly concentrate on quantitative methods. Instead, it extends its reach to cover analytics for non-quantitative managers. In doing so, the book aims to equip a broader audience with the knowledge and tools necessary to harness the benefits of Business Analytics in diverse business scenarios. As you embark on this journey through the pages of "Business Analytics," you will gain insights into the transformative power of analytics in decision-making, and how it has become an indispensable asset for businesses navigating the intricacies of the contemporary corporate landscape.

Business Analytics: A Data-Driven Decision Making Approach for Business-Part I,/i> provides an overview of business analytics (BA), business intelligence (BI), and the role and importance of these in the modern business decision-making. The book discusses all these areas along with three main analytics categories: (1) descriptive, (2) predictive, and (3) prescriptive analytics with their tools and applications in business. This volume focuses on descriptive analytics that involves the use of descriptive and visual or graphical methods, numerical methods, as well as data analysis tools, big data applications, and the use of data dashboards to understand business performance. The highlights of this volume are: Business analytics at a glance; Business intelligence (BI), data analytics; Data, data types, descriptive analytics; Data visualization tools; Data visualization with big data; Descriptive analytics-numerical methods; Case analysis with computer applications.

This book aims to explain Data Analytics towards decision making in terms of models and algorithms, theoretical concepts, applications, experiments in relevant domains or focused on specific issues. It explores the concepts of database technology, machine learning, knowledge-based system, high performance computing, information retrieval, finding patterns hidden in large datasets and data visualization. Also, it presents various paradigms including pattern mining, clustering, classification, and data analysis. Overall aim is to provide technical solutions in the field of data analytics and data mining. Features: Covers descriptive statistics with respect to predictive analytics and business analytics. Discusses different data analytics platforms for real-time applications. Explain SMART business models. Includes algorithms in data sciences alongwith automated methods and models. Explores varied challenges encountered by researchers and businesses in the realm of real-time analytics. This book aims at researchers and graduate students in data analytics, data sciences, data mining, and signal processing.

A practical guide for anyone who aspires to become data analytics–savvy Data analytics has become central to the operation of most businesses, making it an increasingly necessary skill for every manager and for all functions across an organisation. Data Analytics for Organisational Development: Unleashing the Potential of Your Data introduces a methodical process for gathering, screening, transforming, and analysing the correct datasets to ensure that they are reliable tools for business decision-making. Written by a Six Sigma Master Black Belt and a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, this accessible guide explains and illustrates the application of data analytics for organizational development and design, with particular focus on Customer and Strategy Analytics, Operations Analytics and Workforce Analytics. Designed as both a handbook and workbook, Data Analytics for Organisational Development presents the application of data analytics for organizational design and development using case studies and practical examples. It aims to help build a bridge between data scientists, who have less exposure to actual business issues, and the "non-data scientists." With this guide, anyone can learn to perform data analytics tasks from translating a business question into a data science hypothesis to understanding the data science results and making the appropriate decisions. From data acquisition, cleaning, and transformation to analysis and decision making, this book covers it all. It also helps you avoid the pitfalls of unsound decision making, no matter where in the value chain you work. Follow the “Five Steps of a Data Analytics Case” to arrive at the correct business decision based on sound data analysis Become more proficient in effectively communicating and working with the data experts, even if you have no background in data science Learn from cases and practical examples that demonstrate a systematic method for gathering and processing data accurately Work through end-of-chapter exercises to review key concepts and apply methods using sample data sets Data Analytics for Organisational Development includes downloadable tools for learning enrichment, including spreadsheets, Power BI slides, datasets, R analysis steps and more. Regardless of your level in your organisation, this book will help you become savvy with data analytics, one of today’s top business tools.

Assuming no prior knowledge or technical skills, Getting Started with Business Analytics: Insightful Decision-Making explores the contents, capabilities, and applications of business analytics. It bridges the worlds of business and statistics and describes business analytics from a non-commercial standpoint. The authors demystify the main concepts and terminologies and give many examples of real-world applications. The first part of the book introduces business data and recent technologies that have promoted fact-based decision-making. The authors look at how business intelligence differs from business analytics. They also discuss the main components of a business analytics application and the various requirements for integrating business with analytics. The second part presents the technologies underlying business analytics: data mining and data analytics. The book helps you understand the key concepts and ideas behind data mining and shows how data mining has expanded into data analytics when considering new types of data such as network and text data. The third part explores business analytics in depth, covering customer, social, and operational analytics. Each chapter in this part incorporates hands-on projects based on publicly available data. Helping you make sound decisions based on hard data, this self-contained guide provides an integrated framework for data mining in business analytics. It takes you on a journey through this data-rich world, showing you how to deploy business analytics solutions in your organization.

This book presents a framework for developing an analytics strategy that includes a range of activities, from problem definition and data collection to data warehousing, analysis, and decision making. The authors examine best practices in team analytics strategies such as player evaluation, game strategy, and training and performance. They also explore the way in which organizations can use analytics to drive additional revenue and operate more efficiently. The authors provide keys to building and organizing a decision intelligence analytics that delivers insights into all parts of an organization. The book examines the criteria and tools for evaluating and selecting decision intelligence analytics technologies and the applicability of strategies for fostering a culture that prioritizes data-driven decision making. Each chapter is carefully segmented to enable the reader to gain knowledge in business intelligence, decision making and artificial intelligence in a strategic management context.

Written with the aim of becoming the primary resource for students of business analytics, this book provides a holistic perspective of analytics with theoretical foundations and applications of the theory using examples across several industries.

The reader of this book need not be a mathematician. This book is intended for the business-minded individual interested in learning about the strategic advantages which can be obtained from business analytics.Small Business Trends magazine reported that, "you don't need to be a Fortune 500 company with revenue in the stratosphere to benefit from the application of business intelligence. A simple analysis of data your business may already be collecting could hold the answer."Perhaps you would like to reduce your inventory, determine product and customer profitability, gain insight into customer ordering behaviour. Perhaps you would like to know where you are spending your business dollars or how to determine if your cash flow is getting better or worse. Is your business becoming more or less efficient as it grows? Perhaps you would like to predict upcoming retirements to determine the impact of the baby boomer generation on your organization.This book will present some of the simpler approaches to data analysis and will show the value of these analyses to business. The intent is to show the reader what is possible rather than teaching the mathematical techniques. From simple to the more advanced, this book will deliver a series of analytics suitable for anyone wishing to take their business to the next level.I will present a series of real-world case studies from various functional areas, the majority of which will be conducted with every day software that most businesses already possess.The book will go on to examine the advantages and disadvantages of trying to build these capabilities in-house and will provide a realistic view of the challenges associated with analytics in the business world.Finally, I will provide some advice on data analysis and visualization tools. Specifically, I will focus on the tools that are available to the reader for prices that are in line with typical office software.