A Practitioner's Guide to Business Analytics (PB)

by Randy Bartlett

Overview

Gain the competitive edge with the smart use of business analytics

In today’s volatile business environment, the strategic use of business analytics is more important than ever. A Practitioners Guide to Business Analytics helps you get the organizational commitment you need to get business analytics up and running in your company. It provides solutions for meeting the strategic challenges of applying analytics, such as:

• Integrating analytics into decision making, corporate culture, and business strategy
• Leading and organizing analytics within the corporation
• Applying statistical qualifications, statistical diagnostics, and statistical review
• Providing effective building blocks to support analytics—statistical software, data collection, and data management

Randy Bartlett, Ph.D., is Chief Statistical Officer of the consulting company Blue Sigma Analytics. He currently works with Infosys, where he has helped build their new Business Analytics practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071807609
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	01/25/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Randy Bartlett, PhD, is a business analytics leader with more than 20 years of business experience and 9 years of training in statistics at Iowa State University and Texas A&M University. His experience includes performing analytics, reviewing analytics, leading analytics teams, and making analytics-based decisions. He has worked at Applied Research Associates, AHQR, AstraZeneca, Bell South, BMS, Fannie Mae, Infosys, Inspire/Merck, JDA Software, NHA, PricewaterhouseCoopers, The Associates/ Citigroup, UnitedHealthcare, Wells Fargo, and other companies. Recently he helped build a new Business Analytics practice and developed Big Data and CoE offerings.