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Think Fast! The insight you need to compete and win with self-service analytics

Foreword by Boris Evelson, Forrester Research, Inc.

Your organization is under intense pressure to create value, and that’s why business leaders are turning to analytics for help. But you can’t effectively use information to sell more, spend less, and work smarter—and do it with the speed and agility business leaders require—unless you understand the 26 most important aspects of people, process, technology, and data that make analytics work.

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Accolades for Think Fast!

2019 Book Excellence Award Winner - Business Reference (July 2019)

#1 Amazon New Release - Information Management (October 2018)

#1 Amazon New Release - Social Science Methodology (October 2018)

#1 Amazon New Release - Literacy (October 2018)

#3 Amazon Bestseller - Library & Information Science (October 2018)

#8 Amazon Bestseller - Business Mathematics Skills (October 2018)

“Powerful, thoughtful and engaging...”

— Dan Grace, SVP and Director of Innovation Product Management at Bank of America

The 26 insights you'll cover in this book:

  • Understanding Self-Service

    Value Attainment

    Agile BI

    Defining Analytics

    Describing Self-Service

  • The People Domain

    Organizational Alignment

    The Organizational Model

    The Importance of Collaboration

    The Right Team

    The Right Support

  • The Process Domain

    Setting Priorities

    Balancing Risk and Reward

    Building Requirements that Work

    Evaluate and Evolve

    Sell the Vision

    Control the Chaos

  • The Technology Domain

    The Role of Technology

    The Self-Service Architecture

    The Place for Big Data

    The Confusing Analytics Landsape

  • The Data Domain

    Understanding Data

    Preparing Data

    Data on the Edge

    Understanding Data Science

    Data Privacy

  • Closing Thoughts

    Planning and Execution

    Change is Inevitable

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“Think Fast! can position your organization to scale its analytic-driven transformation and compete against the next generation of disruptors.”

— Paul Hlivko, VP & CTO at Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield

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Bart B
Actionable insights ;-) for every organization's self-service analytics journey

A book that can be used as a valuable guide in your self-service analytics journey (yes, both for business & IT folks), that well explains all the attention points, provides tips & tricks but moreover explains what self-service is all about.
After more then 15y in the analytics business this book still helps to reflect on your own experiences and makes you adapt where needed.
I read books to learn and discover new angles on certain analytics subjects, which this book does.
Thx Greg Steffine !

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Chris Miladinovich
A must read for management consultants

With the way data is going, more leaders and organizations are looking for faster self service ways to look at insights and make decisions. This book articulates the need and the ways to enable organizations to position for this type of thinking. I think it's a strong perspective on how to approach holistically and provides business intelligence leaders and consultants methods and tools to realize value quickly for their organizations and clients alike.

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Skye
Informative and easy primer

straight forward and informative; very useful - as a non-technical business person, the book gave me immediate insight

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Craig
Informative and useful.

Great insight into today’s organizational needs and the current BI environment. The authors experience and guidance on self-service BI make it a good resource.

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Michael J. Betts
Very useful, ongoing reference for any analytics enterprise environment.

In my view, corporate adoption of self-service analytics is early stage. “Think Fast” was a quick read, chock full of revelations that drew me back to the book as a reference on multiple, topic specific re-reads. This is one of those books that keeps on giving; each time you pick it up, you get another nugget.

I would say it doesn’t matter if you are a quant, an IT veteran, or a business manager or consumer of analytic reports, having read this, you will walk away with a higher level of awareness that will improve your contribution in a collaborative environment where self-service analytics is either an ambition or an adopted practice.

For frame of reference, I work in an analytics software advisory role to industry execs and have modeling experience. I would recommend this book to organizations that want to promote a team effort among various department silos, or to individuals tasked with efficiently guiding the adoption of self-service analytics at any level really. The contributing authors within each chapter provide real world guidance that will save you money and time.

…fast read (few hours), and a useful ongoing resource.