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Book Review – The power to predict

August 26, 2007

The Power to Predict: How Real Time Businesses Anticipate Customer Needs, Create Opportunities, and beat the competition
I recently read The Power to Predict: How Real Time Businesses Anticipate Customer Needs, Create Opportunities, and Beat the Competition by Vivek Ranadive (CEO of Tibco). I liked the book – it was readable and well-written. It was [...]

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Book Review – Hard facts, dangerous half truths and total nonsense

June 18, 2007

Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management
On the plane over I finished Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton. This excellent book lays out why and how companies fail to drive their business based on evidence, and instead “miracle cure” advice [...]

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Book Review – Competing on Analytics

February 26, 2007

Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning by Tom Davenport and Jeanne Harris
Tom and Jeanne have written a new book (building on a paper they wrote some time ago) about what they call “analytic competitors”, that is to say companies that use their analytic prowess not just to enhance their operations but as their [...]

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