The book author of competing on analytics, tom davenport, suggests readers apply data carefully and gain an advantage through it. In competing on analytics, davenport and harris explain how analytics are transforming the basis of competition in industry after industry. Theyll get the best customers and charge them exactly the price that the customer is willing to pay for their product and service. Thanks to michael lewiss bestselling book moneyball, which demonstrated the power of. Davenport has 52 books on goodreads with 16202 ratings. Harris argue that the frontier of using data has shifted dramatically.
Authors thomas davenport and jeanne harris were on the leading edge of sharing the new standard for business competition in this book. Davenport and harris provide an answer in the books final paragraph. Organizations are competing on analytics not just because they canbusiness today is awash in data and data crunchersbut also because they should. Certain highperforming enterprises are now building their competitive strategies around datadriven insights that in turn generate impressive business results. Davenport s most popular book is competing on analytics. Competing on analytics guide books acm digital library.
Harris is on the faculty at columbia university, where she teaches business analytics management. At a time when firms in many industries offer similar products and use comparable technologies, business processes are among the last remaining points of differentiation. Even in industries where analytical data is prevalent, some cooperations are better at using data and making a smarter decision than others. Buy competing on analytics 07 edition 9781422103326 by thomas h.
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