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The Economics of Data, Analytics, and Digital Transformation

By : Bill Schmarzo
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Book Image

The Economics of Data, Analytics, and Digital Transformation

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By: Bill Schmarzo

Overview of this book

In today’s digital era, every organization has data, but just possessing enormous amounts of data is not a sufficient market discriminator. The Economics of Data, Analytics, and Digital Transformation aims to provide actionable insights into the real market discriminators, including an organization’s data-fueled analytics products that inspire innovation, deliver insights, help make practical decisions, generate value, and produce mission success for the enterprise. The book begins by first building your mindset to be value-driven and introducing the Big Data Business Model Maturity Index, its maturity index phases, and how to navigate the index. You will explore value engineering, where you will learn how to identify key business initiatives, stakeholders, advanced analytics, data sources, and instrumentation strategies that are essential to data science success. The book will help you accelerate and optimize your company’s operations through AI and machine learning. By the end of the book, you will have the tools and techniques to drive your organization’s digital transformation. Here are a few words from Dr. Kirk Borne, Data Scientist and Executive Advisor at Booz Allen Hamilton, about the book: "Data analytics should first and foremost be about action and value. Consequently, the great value of this book is that it seeks to be actionable. It offers a dynamic progression of purpose-driven ignition points that you can act upon."
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Index
Appendix A: My Most Popular Economics of Data, Analytics, and Digital Transformation Infographics

Summary

Chapter 1, The CEO Mandate: Become Value-driven, Not Data-driven, sets the stage for the rest of the book. If organizations are ready to embrace that "data is the new oil" and the catalyst for the economic growth of the 21st century—then addressing this question becomes paramount to the organization's digital transformation success:

How effective is our organization at leveraging data and analytics to power our business models?

The BDBMMI provides a benchmark against which organizations can compare themselves. But equally important, the Big Data Business Maturity Model provides a roadmap or a guide. It guides organizations in transitioning from retrospective reports that tell them what happened, towards predictions as to what is likely to happen, and prescriptive, and preventative actions based upon those predictions. It guides organizations in helping to monetize their customer, product and operational insights, and finally towards digital transformation...