Today's most successful companies are "Intelligent Companies" that
use the best available data to inform their decision making. This
is called Evidence-Based Management and is one of the fastest
growing business trends of our times. "Intelligent Companies" bring
together tools such as Business Intelligence, Analytics, Key
Performance Indicators, Balanced Scorecards, Management Reporting
and Strategic Decision Making to generate real competitive
advantages.
As information and data volumes grow at explosive rates, the
challenges of managing this information is turning into a losing
battle for most companies and they end up drowning in data while
thirsting for insights. This is made worse by the severe skills
shortage in analytics, data presentation and communication.
This latest book by best-selling management expert Bernard Marr,
will equip you with a set of powerful skills that are vital for
successful managers now and in the future. Increase your market
value by gaining essential skills that are in high demand but in
short supply.
Loaded with practical step-by-step guidance, simple tools and
real life examples of how leading organizations such as Google,
CocaCola, Capital One, Saatchi & Saatchi, Tesco, Yahoo, as well
as Government Departments and Agencies have put the principles into
practice.
The five steps to more intelligent decision making are: Step 1:
More intelligent strategies - by identifying strategic priorities
and agreeing your real information needsStep 2: More intelligent
data - by creating relevant and meaningful performance indicators
and qualitative management information liked back to your strategic
information needsStep 3: More intelligent insights - by using good
evidence to test and prove ideas and by analysing the data to gain
robust and reliable insightsStep 4: More intelligent communication
- by creating informative and engaging management information packs
and dashboards that provide the essential information, packaged in
an easy-to-read wayStep 5: More intelligent decision making - by
fostering an evidence-based culture of turning information into
actionable knowledge and real decisions
"Bernard Marr did it again This outstanding and practical book
will help your company become more intelligent and more successful.
Marr takes the fields of business-intelligence, analytics and
scorecarding to bring them together into a powerful and
easy-to-follow 5-step framework. The Intelligent Company is THE
must-read book of our times."
--Bruno Aziza, Co-author of best-selling book "Drive Business
Performance" and "Worldwide Strategy Lead, Microsoft Business
Intelligence"
"Book after book Bernard Marr is redefining the fundamentals of
good business management. 'The Intelligent Company' is a must read
in these changing times and a reference you will want on your desk
every day "
--Gabriel Bellenger, Accenture Strategy
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