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Business is Personal: The Truth About What it Takes to Be Successful While Staying True to Yourself
by Bethenny FrankelA New York Times bestselling author and successful businesswoman shares the advice she used to build a business and maintain balance as a media personality, mogul, and mother. Consider this book your strategic toolbox, full of Bethenny&’s smartest and most practical no-nonsense business principles and tactics, illustrated through her own compelling stories and lessons from the entrepreneurial front and experience building the successful Skinnygirl and Bethenny brands, becoming a successful television and podcast producer, and managing her philanthropic foundation. She also shares wisdom from her conversations with highly accomplished people from Mark Cuban to Hillary Clinton, Candace Bushnell to Matthew McConaughey and many more, on what it takes to be successful at every level in an authentic way. So many women, including stay-at-home moms yearning for more, entrepreneurs, and 9-to-5ers see this time of disruption as an open road. As Bethenny says, the snow globe has been shaken. This is THE handbook to navigate what will come next. Whether you are new to business, a seasoned rainmaker, pivoting from a loss or layoff– or just finding your way– you will find value within these pages. This book will inspire you to act without fear, turn mistakes into masterstrokes, and keep you laughing along the way.
Business Is Combat
by James D. MurphyWhether you're engaging in supersonic jet combat at 48,000 feet or entering a tough sales battle with a cutthroat competitor, the goal is the same:absolute victory. In Business is Combat, former F-15 pilot James D. Murphy, an expert in both business and combat strategy, offers a full-scale training course in military techniques that have made the United States Air Force the most advanced air-combat force in the world. From nurturing teamwork to maintaining focus to planning and executing each new mission, Murphy offers advice that's practical as well as thrilling. Whatever your mission, whatever your battle, Business Is Combat provides a blueprint for the kind of success every warrior seeks -- absolute victory.
Business is ART
by Jon UmsteadSome estimates say that as many as eight out of ten new businesses fail within the first 18 months. More conservative estimates say that about half of new business start-ups are still in business four to five years later. In either case, the likelihood of business failure is very high. Anything that improves the odds should be welcomed by, both, the business and the lender/investment communities. Studies prove that good planning practices more than double the chance of business success. Yet, the vast majority of small to medium sized businesses operate without a formal plan, and only a subset of those follow through, measuring targeted objectives and adjusting plans accordingly. Why? Some of the reasons include: they just don't know any better, it's just too complicated, and it's just too time consuming. Translation: it's just too easy NOT to do it. Start-up companies that need seed money must create business plans in order to obtain loans, attract investors and launch more successful crowd funding projects. But the process is often tedious and quickly forgotten after the initial requirement. Business owners and leaders need tools that help them easily articulate, revise and track plans and objectives on an on-going basis. Business is ART leads the reader through an easy to follow approach to business as ART, beginning with the vision and painting the picture through strategic planning, business planning and performance metric tracking. The emphasis is on ease and visual appeal in order to keep the reader engaged in the process long after putting down the book. The read is light, at times humorous, and includes several real-life examples, stories, quotes and anecdotes. Along the way it provides simplified, table-driven templates for creating plans and introduces a new, proprietary methodology for tracking metrics: the PingChart. Finally, Business is ART introduces a new, proprietary software for following this simplified approach.
Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy Cookbook
by Davide MoraschiWritten in a cookbook style, this book will teach you through the use of recipes with examples and illustrations. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions about everything necessary to execute a particular task.This book is intended for both BI and database developers who want to expand their knowledge of MicroStrategy. It is also useful for advanced data analysts who are evaluating different technologies. You do not need to be an SQL master to read this book, yet knowledge of some concepts like foreign keys and many-to-many relationships is assumed. Some knowledge of basic concepts such as dimensional modeling (fact tables, dimensions) will also help your comprehension of this book. No previous MicroStrategy knowledge is needed.
Business Intelligence Tools for Small Companies: A Guide to Free and Low-Cost Solutions
by Albert Nogués Juan ValladaresLearn how to transition from Excel-based business intelligence (BI) analysis to enterprise stacks of open-source BI tools. Select and implement the best free and freemium open-source BI tools for your company's needs and design, implement, and integrate BI automation across the full stack using agile methodologies. Business Intelligence Tools for Small Companies provides hands-on demonstrations of open-source tools suitable for the BI requirements of small businesses. The authors draw on their deep experience as BI consultants, developers, and administrators to guide you through the extract-transform-load/data warehousing (ETL/DWH) sequence of extracting data from an enterprise resource planning (ERP) database freely available on the Internet, transforming the data, manipulating them, and loading them into a relational database. The authors demonstrate how to extract, report, and dashboard key performance indicators (KPIs) in a visually appealing format from the relational database management system (RDBMS). They model the selection and implementation of free and freemium tools such as Pentaho Data Integrator and Talend for ELT, Oracle XE and MySQL/MariaDB for RDBMS, and Qliksense, Power BI, and MicroStrategy Desktop for reporting. This richly illustrated guide models the deployment of a small company BI stack on an inexpensive cloud platform such as AWS. What You'll Learn You will learn how to manage, integrate, and automate the processes of BI by selecting and implementing tools to: Implement and manage the business intelligence/data warehousing (BI/DWH) infrastructure Extract data from any enterprise resource planning (ERP) tool Process and integrate BI data using open-source extract-transform-load (ETL) tools Query, report, and analyze BI data using open-source visualization and dashboard tools Use a MOLAP tool to define next year's budget, integrating real data with target scenarios Deploy BI solutions and big data experiments inexpensively on cloud platforms Who This Book Is For Engineers, DBAs, analysts, consultants, and managers at small companies with limited resources but whose BI requirements have outgrown the limitations of Excel spreadsheets; personnel in mid-sized companies with established BI systems who are exploring technological updates and more cost-efficient solutions
Business Intelligence Success Factors
by Olivia Parr RudTransform challenges into opportunities with emerging Business Intelligence technologies Written by an expert in data mining and statistical analysis, this valuable resource unveils the connection between the increased use of BI and the need for new, proven theories and models in BI, as well as the guidance to implement them successfully in your organization. Are you ready to become adaptable? Learn how to harness today's rapidly evolving global economy with Business Intelligence Success Factors.
Business Intelligence Software at SYSCO
by Andrew Mcafee Alison Berkley WagonfeldThe large food service company SYSCO has decided to purchase business intelligence (BI) software, a technology intended to provide superior monitoring and analysis capabilities. Twila Day, assistant vice president of technology and applications, is in charge of the BI project and must determine exactly how much software to buy. She must also plan the BI implementation throughout the company. After conferring with Business Objects, the BI application's vendor, SYSCO has decided initially to configure the software and train employees to address only a limited set of questions.
Business Intelligence in Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010
by Stacia Misner Mariano Teixeira Neto John Campbell Norman P. WarrenDive into the business intelligence (BI) features in SharePoint 2010--and use the right combination of tools to deliver compelling solutions. This practical guide helps you explore several BI application services available in SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft SQL Server® 2008 R2. You'll learn each technology with step-by-step instructions, and determine which ones work best in specific BI scenarios--whether you're a SharePoint administrator, SQL Server developer, or business analyst. Choose the BI tools that meet your needs--and learn how they work together Examine the BI lifecycle, from determining key performance indicators to building dashboards Take Microsoft Excel® further--gain more control and functionality with web-based Excel Services Mash up data from multiple sources using PowerPivot for Excel 2010 Create data visualizations with objects, context, and metrics using Microsoft Visio® Services Build dashboards, scorecards, and other monitoring and analysis tools with PerformancePoint® Services Use SharePoint to view BI reports side by side, no matter which tools were used to produced them Your companion web content includes: Interactive exercises that help you try out concepts or techniques Code samples that enable you to work with the exercises
Business Intelligence for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: An Agile Roadmap toward Business Sustainability
by Lila Rao-Graham Maurice L. McNaughton Gunjan MansinghBusiness intelligence (BI) has evolved over several years as organizations have extended their online transaction processing (OLTP) capabilities and applications to support their routine operations. With online analytical processing (OLAP), organizations have also established the capability to extract internal and external data from a variety of sources to specifically obtain intelligence about non-routine and often less-structured arrangements. BI therefore refers to applications and technologies that are used to gather, provide access to, and analyze data and information about the operations of an organization. It has the capability of providing comprehensive insight into the more volatile factors affecting the business and its operations, thereby facilitating enhanced decision-making quality and contributing to the creation of business value. Larger and more sophisticated organizations have long been exploiting these capabilities. Business Intelligence for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) guides SMEs in replicating this experience to provide an agile roadmap toward business sustainability. The book points out that successful BI implementations have generated significant increases in revenue and cost savings, however, the failure rates are also very high. More importantly, it emphasizes that a full range of BI capabilities is not the exclusive purview of large organizations. It shows how SMEs make extensive use of BI techniques to develop the kind of agility endowing them with the organizational capability to sense and respond to opportunities and threats in an increasingly dynamic business environment. It points to the way to a market environment in which smaller organizations could have a larger role. In particular, the book explains that by establishing the agility to leverage internal and external data and information assets, SMEs can enhance their competitiveness by having a comprehensive understanding of the key to an agile roadmap for business sustainability.
Business Intelligence for New-Generation Managers: Current Avenues of Development
by Jörg H. Mayer Reiner QuickExecutives in Europe have significantly expanded their role in operations - in parallel to their strategic leadership. At the same time, they need to make decisions faster than in the past. In these demanding times, a redesigned Business Intelligence (BI) should support managers in their new roles. This book summarizes current avenues of development helping managers to perform their jobs more productively by using 'BI for managers' as their central, hands-on, day-to-day source of information - even when they are mobile.
Business Intelligence For Dummies
by Swain SchepsYou're intelligent, right? So you've already figured out that Business Intelligence can be pretty valuable in making the right decisions about your business. But you've heard at least a dozen definitions of what it is, and heard of at least that many BI tools. Where do you start?Business Intelligence For Dummies makes BI understandable! It takes you step by step through the technologies and the alphabet soup, so you can choose the right technology and implement a successful BI environment. You'll see how the applications and technologies work together to access, analyze, and present data that you can use to make better decisions about your products, customers, competitors, and more.You'll find out how to:Understand the principles and practical elements of BIDetermine what your business needsCompare different approaches to BIBuild a solid BI architecture and roadmapDesign, develop, and deploy your BI planRelate BI to data warehousing, ERP, CRM, and e-commerceAnalyze emerging trends and developing BI tools to see what else may be usefulWhether you're the business owner or the person charged with developing and implementing a BI strategy, checking out Business Intelligence For Dummies is a good business decision.
Business Intelligence Applied
by Michael S. GendronExpert guidance for building an information communication and technology infrastructure that provides best in business intelligenceEnterprise performance management (EPM) technology has been rapidly advancing, especially in the areas of predictive analysis and cloud-based solutions. Business intelligence caught on as a concept in the business world as the business strategy application of data warehousing in the early 2000s. With the recent surge in interest in data analytics and big data, it has seen a renewed level of interest as the ability of a business to find the valuable data in a timely--and competitive--fashion. Business Intelligence Applied reveals essential information for building an optimal and effective information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure.Defines ICT infrastructureExamines best practices for documenting business change and for documenting technology recommendationsIncludes examples and cases from Europe and AsiaWritten for business intelligence staff, CIOs, CTOs, and technology managersWith examples and cases from Europe and Asia, Business Intelligence Applied expertly covers business intelligence, a hot topic in business today as a key element to business and data analytics.
Business Intelligence and the Cloud
by Michael S. GendronHow to measure cloud computing options and benefits to impact business intelligence infrastructureThis book is a guide for managers and others involved in using cloud computing to create business value. It starts with a discussion of the media hype around cloud computing and attempt to pull together what industry experts are saying in order to create a unified definition. Once this foundation is created--assisting the reader's understanding of what cloud computing is--the discussion moves to getting business benefits from cloud computing. Lastly, the discussion focuses on examples of cloud computing, public clouds, private clouds, and virtualization. The book emphasizes how these technologies can be used to create business value and how they can be integrated into an organizations business intelligence system. It helps the user make a business case for cloud computing applications--applications that are used to gather/create data, which in turn are used to generate business intelligence.
Business Intelligence and Performance Management: Theory, Systems and Industrial Applications (Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing)
by Alaa F. Sheta Aladdin Ayesh Peter RauschDuring the 21st century business environments have become more complex and dynamic than ever before. Companies operate in a world of change influenced by globalisation, volatile markets, legal changes and technical progress. As a result, they have to handle growing volumes of data and therefore require fast storage, reliable data access, intelligent retrieval of information and automated decision-making mechanisms, all provided at the highest level of service quality. Successful enterprises are aware of these challenges and efficiently respond to the dynamic environment in which their business operates. Business Intelligence (BI) and Performance Management (PM) offer solutions to these challenges and provide techniques to enable effective business change. The important aspects of both topics are discussed within this state-of-the-art volume. It covers the strategic support, business applications, methodologies and technologies from the field, and explores the benefits, issues and challenges of each. Issues are analysed from many different perspectives, ranging from strategic management to data technologies, and the different subjects are complimented and illustrated by numerous examples of industrial applications. Contributions are authored by leading academics and practitioners representing various universities, research centres and companies worldwide. Their experience covers multiple disciplines and industries, including finance, construction, logistics, and public services, amongst others. Business Intelligence and Performance Management is a valuable source of reference for graduates approaching MSc or PhD programs and for professionals in industry researching in the fields of BI and PM for industrial application.
Business Intelligence and Modelling: Unified Approach with Simulation and Strategic Modelling in Entrepreneurship (Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics)
by Damianos P. Sakas Dimitrios K. Nasiopoulos Yulia TaratuhinaThis book highlights interdisciplinary insights, latest research results, and technological trends in Business Intelligence and Modelling in fields such as: Business Intelligence, Business Transformation, Knowledge Dissemination & Implementation, Modeling for Logistics, Business Informatics, Business Model Innovation, Simulation Modelling, E-Business, Enterprise & Conceptual Modelling, etc. The book is divided into eight sections, grouping emerging marketing technologies together in a close examination of practices, problems and trends. The chapters have been written by researchers and practitioners that demonstrate a special orientation in Strategic Marketing and Business Intelligence. This volume shares their recent contributions to the field and showcases their exchange of insights.
Business Intelligence and Information Technology: Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Intelligence and Information Technology BIIT 2021 (Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies #107)
by Aboul Ella Hassanien Yaoqun Xu Zhijie Zhao Sabah Mohammed Zhipeng FanThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Business Intelligence and Information Technology (BIIT 2021) held in Harbin, China, during December 18–20, 2021. BIIT 2021 is organized by the School of Computer and Information Engineering, Harbin University of Commerce, and supported by Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE), Egypt. The papers cover current research in electronic commerce technology and application, business intelligence and decision making, digital economy, accounting informatization, intelligent information processing, image processing and multimedia technology, signal detection and processing, communication engineering and technology, information security, automatic control technique, data mining, software development, and design, blockchain technology, big data technology, artificial intelligence technology.
Business Intelligence and Information Technology: Proceedings of BIIT 2022 (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies #358)
by Aboul Ella Hassanien Dequan Zheng Zhijie Zhao Zhipeng FanThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Business Intelligence and Information Technology (BIIT 2022) held in Harbin, China, during December 17–18, 2022. BIIT 2022 is organized by the School of Computer and Information Engineering, Harbin University of Commerce, and supported by Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE), Egypt. The papers cover current research in electronic commerce technology and application, business intelligence and decision making, digital economy, accounting informatization, intelligent information processing, image processing and multimedia technology, signal detection and processing, communication engineering and technology, information security, automatic control technique, data mining, software development, and design, blockchain technology, big data technology, and artificial intelligence technology.
Business Intelligence and Human Resource Management: Concept, Cases, and Practical Applications
by Singh Anurag Omar Amizan Goyal S. B. Singh DeepmalaBusiness Intelligence (BI) is a solution to modern business problems. This book discusses the relationship between BI and Human Resource Management (HRM). In addition, it discusses how BI can be used as a strategic decision-making tool for the sustainable growth of an organization or business. BI helps organizations generate interactive reports with clear and reliable data for making numerous business decisions. This book covers topics spanning the important areas of BI in the context of HRM. It gives an overview of the aspects, tools, and techniques of BI and how it can assist HRM in creating a successful future for organizations. Some of the tools and techniques discussed in the book are analysis, data preparation, BI-testing, implementation, and optimization on GR and management disciplines. It will include a chapter on text mining as well as a section of case studies for practical use. This book will be useful for business professionals, including but not limited to, HR professionals, and budding business students.
Business Intelligence and Big Data: Drivers of Organizational Success
by Celina M. OlszakThe twenty-first century is a time of intensifying competition and progressive digitization. Individual employees, managers, and entire organizations are under increasing pressure to succeed. The questions facing us today are: What does success mean? Is success a matter of chance and luck or perhaps is success a category that can be planned and properly supported? Business Intelligence and Big Data: Drivers of Organizational Success examines how the success of an organization largely depends on the ability to anticipate and quickly respond to challenges from the market, customers, and other stakeholders. Success is also associated with the potential to process and analyze a variety of information and the means to use modern information and communication technologies (ICTs). Success also requires creative behaviors and organizational cleverness from an organization. The book discusses business intelligence (BI) and Big Data (BD) issues in the context of modern management paradigms and organizational success. It presents a theoretically and empirically grounded investigation into BI and BD application in organizations and examines such issues as: Analysis and interpretation of the essence of BI and BD Decision support Potential areas of BI and BD utilization in organizations Factors determining success with using BI and BD The role of BI and BD in value creation for organizations Identifying barriers and constraints related to BI and BD design and implementation The book presents arguments and evidence confirming that BI and BD may be a trigger for making more effective decisions, improving business processes and business performance, and creating new business. The book proposes a comprehensive framework on how to design and use BI and BD to provide organizational success.
Business Intelligence and Big Data: 7th European Summer School, eBISS 2017, Bruxelles, Belgium, July 2–7, 2017, Tutorial Lectures (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #324)
by Esteban ZimányiThis book constitutes revised tutorial lectures of the 7th European Business Intelligence and Big Data Summer School, eBISS 2017, held in Bruxelles, Belgium, in July 2017. The tutorials were given by renowned experts and covered advanced aspects of business intelligence and big data. This summer school, presented by leading researchers in the field, represented an opportunity for postgraduate students to equip themselves with the theoretical, practical, and collaboration skills necessary for developing challenging business intelligence applications.
Business Intelligence & Analytics – Grundlagen und praktische Anwendungen: Ansätze der IT-basierten Entscheidungsunterstützung
by Henning Baars Hans-Georg KemperEine fundierte und praxisorientierte Einführung in die IT-basierte Managementunterstützung. Business Intelligence umfasst mehr als den Bereich Data Warehousing. Ziel ist die Realisierung eines Gesamtkonzeptes. Charakteristika sind eine konsistente, harmonisierte Datenhaltung, eine hohe Integrationsdichte der Analysesysteme und die Einbindung betriebswirtschaftlich anspruchsvoller Auswertungskonzepte. In dem Buch werden eine Business-Intelligence-Architektur sowie ein Vorgehensmodell zur Entwicklung integrierter BI-Anwendungssysteme entworfen und anhand von aussagekräftigen Praxisbeispielen ausführlich illustriert.
Business Intelligence: 8th International Conference, CBI 2023, Istanbul, Turkey, July 19–21, 2023, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #484)
by Rachid El Ayachi Mohamed Fakir Mohamed BaslamThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Business Intelligence, CBI 2023, which held in Istanbul, Turkey, during July 19–21, 2023.The 15 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: artificial intelligence and business intelligence; and optimization and decision support.
Business Intelligence: The Effectiveness of Strategic Intelligence and its Impact on the Performance of Organizations
by Corine CohenFollowing a long process of qualitative, quantitative, and empirical research next to Strategic Intelligence (SI) experts and large companies, this book proposes a way to improve SI and its impact on the performance of an organization. From an exploration, description and evaluation model of SI, a measurement tool in two parts has been built. For all kind of firms and all advancement levels of SI, it explains the construction of a control panel which can be used to pilot SI and its impact on the performance of an organization.
Business Intelligence: 6th International Conference, CBI 2021, Beni Mellal, Morocco, May 27–29, 2021, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #416)
by Mohamed Fakir Mohamed Baslam Rachid El AyachiThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Business Intelligence, CBI 2021, which took place in Beni Mellal, Morocco, during May 27-29, 2021.The 26 full and 6 poster papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 60 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: decision support, information systems and NLP; big data, datamining, Web services and Web semantics; optimization and decision support; signal, image and vision computing; networking, cloud computing and networking architectures in cloud.
Business Intelligence: 7th International Conference, CBI 2022, Khouribga, Morocco, May 26–28, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #449)
by Mohamed Fakir Mohamed Baslam Rachid El AyachiThis book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Business Intelligence, CBI 2022, which took place in Khouribga, Morocco, during May 26-28, 2022. The 23 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 68 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: decision support and artificial intelligence; business intelligence and database; and optimization and dynamic programming.