Actionable Intelligence: A Guide to Delivering Business Results with Big Data Fast! - Hardcover

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KEITH B. CARTER enjoys making the lives of others easier with technology and is an avid sportsman, private pilot, fencer, and family man. Born in Long Island, he spent most of his life in New York until moving to Singapore in 2012, where he currently resides. Always interested in both corporate and academic roles, Keith is working as Visiting Senior Fellow of Decision Sciences at the prestigious National University of Singapore Business School as well as principal advisor to KPMG, board member of Mentorica Technology Pte. Ltd. (a retail sales, mobile, big data solution provider), and board member of 1st Call Consulting, a competitive intelligence firm specializing in finance and supply chain. He previously worked at Estée Lauder in supply chain and Accenture in financial services and government. As an inventor, he recently received a patent on a financial intelligence tool design. Keith has a Master's in Business Administration from Cornell University and a Bachelor's in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Praise for Actionable Intelligence: A Guide to Delivering Business Results with Big Data Fast!

As with most new terms, a true definition should be provided to set the readers understanding in the right place. I believe BIG DATA is, to Keith s point, moving from just numbers to actionable facts that can drive major business impacts. People are hungry for how to get this done and how much data/info is good enough to go forward and use. Plus how one can get better over time. Keith provides the way forward.
Jacquelyn M. Howard, Vice President, Supply Chain, MCDonald s China/Hong Kong

Actionable Intelligence has the critical insights business leaders need to leverage Big Data to win in the emerging digital marketplace! Well done, Keith!
Ed Hunter, Vice President, Product Supply-Asia, Procter & Gamble Europe SA - Singapore

Keith Carter s Actionable Intelligence discusses Keith s use of data personally and professionally. He understands that the answer is not just more data, but data that you need and can use to make decisions. In an era when some authors simply extoll the massive size of available data, Actionable Intelligence helps the reader to think through how to utilize the right data, including big data if necessary, at the right time, to yield results.
—Dr. L. Joseph Thomas, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor of Operations Management, Dean Emeritus, S.C. Johnson Business School, Cornell University

If you ve ever thought to yourself that there just has to be a better way, well, you re right. Actionable intelligence is not easy. In this book Keith, Donald, and Cliff provide a framework and a roadmap for how to deliver on the often-elusive promise. I m requiring my whole Business Intelligence (BI) team to read this book!
—Robert Hewardt, Current Head of Marketing Operations at Red Hat and former IT Vice President, Computer Associates (CA) Technologies

Actionable intelligence is key to any decision maker s success. Whether it is on the battlefield or in the boardroom, good information means good decisions; good decisions mean better outcomes. However, many assume this level of intelligence is only for governments and big multinationals. Not anymore. Access to technology and Big Data is the new equalizer. This book makes that case. It is a must read.
—John Ritchie, Head of Security for a major US financial institution in Asia, and former Operations Officer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Keith Carter understands the need for speed and accuracy of decision making in business. Actionable Intelligence supports business leaders need to have fact-based decision making. Actionable Intelligence: A Guide to Delivering Business Results with Big Data Fast! is a must read for all business leaders that require quick and fact-based decision making to support profitable business growth.
—Bill Kunz, President, Kunz Consulting Services, with over 25 years of supply chain and procurement experience within the beauty industry

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The data revolution was supposed to lead to better business and faster improvements, but for employees, big data often just means a big headache. Business leaders need to get all stakeholders on board with the idea that big data has the power to make life easier and improve business outcomes. That s Actionable Intelligence. In this book, Keith B. Carter takes the age-old idea of business intelligence and turns it into something businesses can actually use.

It s true that if you can gather all the right data into one place, you can come up with some significant truths that might not have been accessible a decade or two ago. It s also true that the use of big data can make organizations more agile and improve their ability to look forward to address issues before they become problems. But all this is easier said than done. Unlike many books on the market, Actionable Intelligence focuses less on the saying and more on the doing. Executives and leaders will appreciate the concrete guidance on hiring the right people, gaining their trust, and processing massive sets of data in a way that actually makes things happen faster.

Actionable Intelligence is not just about making charts and graphs. Author Keith Carter covers visualization and the basics of big data, but his approach is unique. With interactive elements and thought-provoking questions peppered throughout the text, he encourages readers to begin with a solid foundation a firm business purpose and a genuine desire to improve the lives of others and deliver sustainable improvements using data. Carter understands the need for leaders to surround themselves with people who are passionate about moving the organization forward and doing whatever it takes to deliver results. Actionable Intelligence is a new way of thinking about data, and it could be the spark your organization needs to think bigger and act better.