Data-Based Decision Making and Digital Transformation : Nine Laws for Success / Daniel J. Power and Ciara Heavin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Power, Daniel J., author.

Heavin, Ciara, author.

Series:

Information systems collection.

Information systems collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decision support systems.

Decision making--Computer programs.

Decision making.

Database management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (108 p.) : ill.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Business Expert Press, LLC, [2018]

Summary:

Digital disruption is accelerating. Implementing a successful digital transformation strategy requires that senior managers make trade-off decisions to reinvent a business. Equally important all decision makers must learn to ask the right questions, use data and computer support in decision making, and increase their knowledge and skills. Creating a data-centric culture and rewarding data-based decision making leads to successful digital transformation. Join the digital journey. This book is targeted at managers, especially middle-level managers who are trying to come to grips with using data-based decision making in a transforming organization. The authors explore a number of broad questions including: How can managers become data-based decision makers? How can digital transformation become part of an organizational strategy? What new skills do managers need to implement digital transformation? How will we know an organization has been successfully transformed?

Contents:

1. Introduction and overview

2. Decision making and digital transformation

3. Data-based decision making

4. Analytics and high-velocity decision making

5. Implementing digital transformation

6. Finding a way forward

Glossary

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781631576591

1631576593