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  • Think Fast! The insight you need to compete and win with Self - Service Analytics - The Sanderson Press Store
  • Think Fast! The insight you need to compete and win with Self - Service Analytics - The Sanderson Press Store
  • Think Fast! The insight you need to compete and win with Self - Service Analytics - The Sanderson Press Store
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Think Fast! The insight you need to compete and win with Self-Service Analytics

Think Fast! The insight you need to compete and win with Self-Service Analytics

by Gregory P. Steffine

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Every organization today is under intense pressure to create value.  In fact, the digital revolution is fundamentally changing the world as we know it—from how consumers interact and behave to how business gets done.  And it’s forcing organizations to transform the way they work.  That’s why business leaders consistently turn to analytics.  They need actionable insight to innovate, differentiate, and compete.  But it’s no longer enough to simply sell more, spend less, and work smarter.  Business has to do it with unprecedented speed and agility.  Business leaders need to think fast!

In this sequel to his award-winning book, Hyper: Changing the way you think about, plan, and execute business intelligence for real results, real fast!, author Greg Steffine teams-up with experienced pros to deliver an essential, quick-read guide on the most important aspects of people, process, technology, and data you need to think about in order to deliver real value.  Packed with pragmatic advice from years of hands-on field work, think fast! provides the insight you need to compete and win with self-service analytics.

Product Details

Format: PDF eBook (Print Replica)

Page Count: 172

Publisher: Sanderson Press

Publication Date: September 21, 2018

Copyright Year: 2018

Author: Gregory P. Steffine

Language: English
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“The objective of self-service analytics is to create value from data by leveraging the intellectual capital and untapped curiosity of the enterprise.”

— Gregory P. Steffine, Author of Think Fast!

FAQs

  • Why the focus on self-service?

    It began when business leaders starting seeing IT as a roadblock to innovation, transformation, and responsiveness. The natural response was for technology leaders to then see business stakeholders as unreasonable and unwilling to accept the kind of thoughtful rigor required to make solutions perform and last. As time passed and technology evolved, so did everyone's thinking. Today, self-service has become the model for empowering business leaders with access to data and technology they need to drive effective decision-making.

  • Why include additional perspectives?

    I like what Ken Blanchard says: "None of us is as smart as all of us." I'm a big believer in the synergistic power of the group and the value that results from effective collaboration. We all have different skills and capabilities and experiences that help form our perspectives and approach to work. I thought it would be of great benefit to my readers to hear what other experienced pros had to say about the topics I cover.

  • Is this a technical resource?

    Think Fast! is not a technical resource on how to architect, deploy, or govern a self-service environment. It assumes you or your colleagues already know how to do that. Rather, it focuses on what we believe are the most important and often forgotten aspects of people, processes, technology, and data necessary for self-service success. In fact, my team and I condensed years of hands-on field work into the 26 insights you need to think about to make self-service analytics really work.

What people are saying

"This book is the go-to bible in demystifying data analytics. I left reading this book with concrete, distinguishable takeaways in implementing a comprehensive BI environment for my clients’ businesses. It is an easy read for even the busiest IT executive."

Robert Stein
Executive Director, Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh

"Greg and his ‘Perspectives from the Pros’ colleagues cut to the core issues and tear down supposed ‘truisms’ found in many other analytics books that simply don’t hold up to the realities of modern business. Particularly valuable to data-driven practitioners will be Think Fast’s recognition of the people elements of the analytics equation, the oft-unrecognized linkage point between data and execution, as well as its well-integrated advice about the service models that make analytics sustainable and with optimized impact."

Evan Sinar, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist and Vice President at DDI

"Think Fast! functions as a great self-service analytics primer for anyone — whether you are simply curious, tangentially involved, or responsible for creating and/or executing an enterprise strategy and looking for how to and how not to guidance."

Ian Gordon
Senior Vice President Operations at Regence Insurance Holding Company

"In a new data world where even business executives are able to do their own analysis from complex company data, this book provides insight into all aspects of the people, processes, enabling technologies, and data and does so in a meaningful, easy to read format. Business intelligence professionals and partners are encouraged to rely on Think Fast! to help guide them to create higher value-driven programs using self-service analytics."

Alan Aguais
Global Program Manager at eBay, Inc.

"Data is one of our most valuable assets, and self-service analytics can quickly get data into the hands of the people that can gain the most value from it. Think Fast! is a quick read that provides a lot of value on all aspects of what is needed for a successful self-service analytics ecosystem. I fully expect I will be referring to it often with my team."

Lisa Gardner
Data Analytics Architect at Nationwide

"The technical skills needed to extract actionable insights from massive amounts of data are only one dimension to the analytics puzzle. In an increasingly competitive world where data science and analytics are being utilized across industries and platforms, Steffine re-introduces us to the peripheral skills that set apart the winners from the losers. Buy-in from the line of business, agility in development, making sure you meet the needs of the client (internal or external) are all key components that decide the success of a given analytics project, and this author does a fantastic job of identifying each component in the process. Think Fast! is an essential sidekick for any analytics professional looking to gain an edge above and beyond the tech stack."

Amir Biagi
Director of Data Science at AF Group