Information Systems Business

What is your digital business model? While many leaders of companies recognize the threat from digital - and the potential opportunity - they lack a common language or a compelling framework to help them assess it and, more importantly, to direct them. They don't know how to think about their digital business model. In this probing and practical book, Peter Weill and Stephanie Woerner provide much-needed tools, self-assessments, motivating examples, and key financial analyses of where the profits will likely be made.

Focusing on the business and financial value of big data analytics, respected technology journalist Frank J. Ohlhorst shares his insights on the newly emerging field of big data analytics in Big Data Analytics. This breakthrough book demonstrates the importance of analytics, defines the processes, highlights the tangible and intangible values, and discusses how you can turn a business liability into actionable material that can be used to redefine markets, improve profits, and identify new business opportunities.

Data is everywhere, coming at us in a never-ceasing, ever-rising river that threatens to overwhelm us. Igor Tulchinsky, the trader behind global quantitative investment management firm WorldQuant, reveals, how natural patterns underlie data patterns that may dictate life or death, success, or failure. This book demonstrates how to exercise real intelligence by discerning the patterns that surround us every day and how to leverage this information into success in the workplace and beyond.