Step through the process of identifying and combining the right measures to gauge, narrate, and guide your organization's progress toward true success. All organizations have a common goal to be successful. All leaders want to make data-informed decisions and use measures to improve processes,...

Metrics are a hot topic. Executive leadership, boards of directors, management, and customers are all asking for data-based decisions. As a result, many managers, professionals, and change agents are asked to develop metrics, but have no clear idea of how to produce meaningful ones. Wouldn’t...

Fundamentals -- A short history of analytics -- Open source analytics -- The Hadoop ecosystem -- In-memory analytics -- Streaming analytics -- Analytics in the cloud -- Machine learning -- Self-service analytics -- Handbook for managers