Analytics at Work, Better Business Decision Making Processes
Smarter Decisions, Better Results
Business intelligence, decision support systems or data warehousing are ideas that keep appearing. This is a guide to implementing the ideas in Competing on Analytics.
With Competing on Analytics Davenport and Harris provided a new vision for using business data as tool for effective competitive strategy. Now Analytics at Work addresses the practical framework for implementing business intelligence software and analytical decision making processes. It stresses the importance of leadership in making analytics work as part of fundamental business change.
InSPECT, Strategic Analysis Alternative to PEST
Alternative Approach to Strategic Analysis
Solidus has taken the traditional PEST (Political, Environment, Social, Technology) analysis a stage further and developed InSPECT to facilitate development of business strategy.
They make the point that innovation is a key capability for business in a fast changing world. InSPECT builds creativity and new ideas into the analysis to inform the development of business strategy.
Imagining India as Future Economic Success or Missed Opportunity?
Wednesday, 23 June 2010 11:33 |
India's development has been rapid and is supported by a demographic dividend of having a population whose average age is only in its twenties. Combined with India being the world's largest democracy this provides a major opportunity to allow India to move from being an emerging market to a global powerhouse.
Winning in Emerging Markets, A Road Map for Strategy and Execution
Wednesday, 16 June 2010 05:25 |
Emerging Markets – New Opportunity, New Challenge
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The Best Book on the Market, Essentials of Economics & Free Enterprise
Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:25 |
Dr. Eamonn Butler is a world-renowned economist and Director of the Adam Smith Institute, the free-market think-tank. He is well qualified to write on the workings of markets and not surprisingly he is an enthusiast for free markets and their contribution to economic growth. What may be surprising is his writing which is lively, clear and to the point and enables him to make The Best Book on the Market , How to Stop Worrying and Love the Free Economy such a slim volume, barely less than half the length of even a short novel.
What is a Management or Business Consultant; and What are They Not?
Tuesday, 01 June 2010 00:00 |
Many, even senior managers and directors, do not know what a consultants does. This article explains the 10 key roles, whatever a consultant’s specialism. It can be argued that many consultants and their firms have also lost sight of their role as a business advisor. Many of the larger consultancy firms have widened the scope of their activities into service provision, interim management or suppliers of temporary staff. Often the essential advisory role of the consultant has been lost. There is a risk that the independence of consultants is severely compromised by the need to generate fees for the wider, non consultancy, services and products. So it is not surprising that client managers and directors feel uncertain about the role of business, management and even technical consultants.
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Imagining India sets out a detailed and thoughtful analysis of modern India facing an opportunity to emerge with a global future in international trade.
Books on economics are usually substantial, dry and rather worthy but not The Best Book on the Market. It is fast paced and as easy to read as a novel but it is still a authoritative guide to economics of free enterpise and the working of markets..