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Book Description

Is your company ready for the next wave of analytics?

Data analytics offer the opportunity to predict the future, use advanced technologies, and gain valuable insights about your business. But unless you're staying on top of the latest developments, your company is wasting that potential--and your competitors will be gaining speed while you fall behind.

Strategic Analytics: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will provide you with today's essential thinking about what data analytics are capable of, what critical talents your company needs to reap their benefits, and how to adopt analytics throughout your organization--before it's too late.

Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?
Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues--blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more--each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow. You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas--and prepare you and your company for the future.

Table of Contents

  1. Series Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction. What Makes Analytics Strategic
  6. Section 1. Understanding Analytics Basics
    1. 1. The Five Essential Elements for Succeeding with Data
    2. 2. Understanding the Types of Data and How They’re Captured
    3. 3. The Right Way to Deploy Predictive Analytics
    4. 4. What Great Data Analysts Do
    5. 5. What Data Is and Isn’t Good For
  7. Section 2. Becoming an Analytics-Driven Organization
    1. 6. Prioritize Which Data Skills Your Company Needs
    2. 7. How a German Manufacturing Company Set Up Its Analytics Lab
    3. 8. Cloud Computing Is Helping Smaller, Newer Firms Compete
    4. 9. Data Science and the Art of Persuasion
  8. Section 3. Applying Data Analytics
    1. 10. How Vineyard Vines Uses Analytics to Win Over Customers
    2. 11. How to Use Employee Data Responsibly
    3. 12. What AI-Driven Decision Making Looks Like
    4. 13. How Companies Can Use the Data They Collect to Further the Public Good
  9. About the Contributors
  10. Index
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