Comments on: Book Review – Competing on Analytics

By: Analytic truth and myth — JT on EDM

Analytic truth and myth — JT on EDM — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:14:38 +0000

[...] interest in it. MYTH While it is true that the only companies I see who have made it to what Tom Davenport called “analytic competitor” are those that have CEOs who are involved with the analytics, I do not believe that CEO involvement [...]

By: Make Better Decisions — JT on EDM

Make Better Decisions — JT on EDM — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:18:12 +0000

[...] has some good stuff about decisioning in it – though I like all the books he lists too (Competing on Analytics, Blink and Super Crunchers are all ones I have [...]

By: Balancing Intuition and Analytics in Decision Making #PBLS — JT on EDM

Balancing Intuition and Analytics in Decision Making #PBLS — JT on EDM — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:31:52 +0000

[...] Know: Innovation Powered by Analytics)and Tom Davenport (author of Competing on Analytics, reviewed here) made up a high powered panel for this. Various random comments [...]

By: Book Review: Super Crunchers — JT on EDM

Book Review: Super Crunchers — JT on EDM — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:00:39 +0000

[...] book extolling the virtues of data-driven decision making. In that regard it is very similar to Competing on Analytics. The book focuses in on the power of data mining and other analytic techniques, especially when [...]

By: Book Review – The power to predict — JT on EDM

Book Review – The power to predict — JT on EDM — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:58:31 +0000

[...] decisions that his examples apply predictive analytics. Many of the examples overlap with those in Competing on Analytics, where the analytics in question are being used as part of deciding how to respond to events. To me [...]