Certain enterprises are building their competitive strategies around data-driven insights that in turn generate impressive business results. This book puts forward an argument that the frontier for using data to make decisions has shifted. It uses analytics which is a sophisticated quantitative and statistical analysis and predictive modeling.

Provides a perspective on knowledge management at Siemens, an internationally recognised benchmark, by presenting the reader with the best of the corporation's practical applications and experiences.

Drawing from more than twenty case studies, this book illustrates how Balanced Scorecard adopters have taken their tool to the next level. It provides an account of how a range of organizations in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors have deployed these principles to achieve breakthrough, sustainable performance improvements.

Takes readers to the next level of precision in strategy implementation. This title offers a visual cause-and-effect explanation of what's working and what doesn't in a way that everyone in the company can understand. It helps get the organization involved in strategy.

Knowledge workers create the innovations and strategies that keep their firms competitive and the economy healthy. This book provides insights into how knowledge workers think, how they accomplish tasks, and what motivates them to excel.

Establishes the vocabulary and concepts in the field of knowledge management. This book examines how various types of companies can understand, analyze, measure, and manage their intellectual assets, turning corporate wisdom into market value. It also presents an approach to catalogue and store knowledge.

Welcome to the attention economy, in which the new scarcest resource isn't ideas or talent, but attention itself. This book argues that businesses are headed for disaster - unless they overcome the dangerously high attention deficits that threaten to cripple the workplace.

Demonstrating that the essence of the job of an executive is to manage today's information-led business, not simply to manage the technology, this text explains how the information generated makes a contribution to strategy formulation, market reach, and effective organizational design.

Provides numerous examples of firms that have succeeded or failed in combining business change and technology initiatives. This text also highlights the roles of organizational structures and human resource programs in developing process innovation.

Suggesting enterprise system's are not the right choice for every company, the author provides a set of guidelines to help managers evaluate the benefits and risks for their organizations. He argues that an organization must make simultaneous changes in its information systems, its business processes, and its business strategy.

A 'How-to' guide for putting to work and developing an analytic capability in your company. It provides practical frameworks and tools for companies that want to use analytics as a basis for more effective and more profitable decision making.

Offers tools and frameworks for assessing the merits of the top business gurus, scanning and tracking emerging ideas in the marketplace, and distinguishing promising ideas from rhetoric. This book also covers refining ideas to suit organization's particular needs, packaging and selling the idea internally, and ensuring successful implementation.

Information technology spending in the US over the last decade is estimated at 3 trillion dollars, yet, by many accounts, has not worked. In this text, the author proposes a way of looking at information management which takes into account the total information environment within an organization.