Im Auftrag des Ministeriums für Wirtschaft, Infrastruktur, Tourismus und Arbeit (MV) führt die Studie „Struktur-, Regional- und Potenzialanalyse des Handwerks in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – Handwerk 2030“ eine umfassende Bestandsanalyse des Handwerks im Bundesland Mecklenburg-Vorpommern...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of individuals' competencies in business intelligence (BI) and analytics (BA) on process effectiveness (PE). Moreover, to investigate the mediating role of user participation (UP) and the moderating role of gender in this relationship. An...

Purpose: The objective of this research was to implement new inventory management in a footwear company through the analysis of indicators obtained from inventory data collection. Design/methodology/approach: The methods of ABC analysis, demand forecasting, safety stock, reorder point and...

Purpose: Prior studies on customer satisfaction research have focused on the private sector. However, few studies have looked at services of general interest. Methodology: Using a PLS-SEM methodology, we establish and adapt a theoretical model based on the well-known ECSI to the waste disposal...

Purpose: Increasing quantity and sources of data and their potential to fuel value-adding applications in Supply Chain Management (SCM) are of considerable importance for corporations. Methodology: We utilize a qualitative research design of semi-structured expert interviews. Findings: Utilizing...

Purpose: Recently, big data has received considerable industrial and academic attention. Social media(SM) are becoming reliable big data sources that include various information such as customer’s opinions, product reviews and trends. However, the supply chain management (SCM) field has been...

Purpose: The objective of this research was to implement new inventory management in a footwear company through the analysis of indicators obtained from inventory data collection. Design/methodology/approach: The methods of ABC analysis, demand forecasting, safety stock, reorder point and...

Business Analytics indicates the practices and competencies for exploration and introspection of business performance to make purposive, intuitive, and expedient business decisions. Business analytics involves a plethora of analysis around business data to draw information that could be used by...

The absence of observable innovation data for a firm often leads us to exclude or classify these firms as non-innovators. We assess the reliability of six methods for dealing with unreported innovation using several different counterfactuals for firms without reported R&D or patents. These tests...

This proceedings volume presents new methods and applications in Operational Research and Management Science with a special focus on Business Analytics. Featuring selected contributions from the XIV Balkan Conference on Operational Research held in Thessaloniki, Greece in 2020 (BALCOR 2020), it...

1. Introduction -- 2. Basic Statistics and Functions using R -- 3. Regression Fundamentals -- 4. Simple Linear Regression -- 5. Multiple Regression -- 6. Estimation Intervals and Analysis of Variance -- 7. Predictor Variable Transformations -- 8. Model Diagnostics -- 9. Variable Selection.

"This book provides comprehensive information on data analytics. It begins with a preliminary introduction and overview of the data mining process in Part I. In Part II the authors move on to discuss data exploration and dimension reduction. Part III covers performance evaluation and Part IV...

"The practice of data analytics is changing and modernizing. Innovations in computation and machine learning are creating new opportunities for the data analyst: exposing previously unexplored data to scientific analysis, scaling tasks through automation, and allowing deeper and more accurate...

"Shortlisted for the Business Book Awards, The Business Analysis Handbook was ground-breaking in providing a hands-on guide to the business analyst role. This second edition reflects key developments and new career pathways in the profession.Business analysis helps organizations to develop an...

Machine Learning for Business AnalyticsMachine learning--also known as data mining or data analytics--is a fundamental part of data science. It is used by organizations in a wide variety of arenas to turn raw data into actionable information.Machine Learning for Business Analytics: Concepts,...

Das wertschöpfende Potenzial von Business Analytics und Daten im Unternehmen nutzen."Dieses Buch liefert einen strukturierten Überblick über die verschiedenen Prozessschritte von Business Analytics. Im Fokus stehen dabei weniger technisch-mathematische, sondern vielmehr anwendungsspezifische...

Business Analysts and Data Scientists are in huge demand, as global companies seek to digitally transform themselves and leverage their data resources to realize competitive advantage.This book covers all the fundamentals, from statistics to programming to business applications, to equip you...

"This book seeks to demonstrate the financial applications of business analytics tools (e.g., machine learning) that can help financial managers and investors to better understand financial theory and improve institutional investment practices. Further, this book targets the value extraction...

Purpose: Business analytics, a buzzword of the recent decade, has been applied by thousands of enterprises to help generate more values and enhance their business performance. However, many aspects of business analytics remain unclear. This study clarifies the definition of business analytics...

We demonstrate some of the achievements and potential of business analytics in services. To focus our study, we review recent operations research literature on analytics in healthcare. We suggest the term comparative analytics that focuses on comparing performances of systems under different...

We find that acquirers create higher shareholder returns when advised by investment banks with more experience in the target industry. This finding is stronger when acquirers face more difficulties understanding and evaluating the targets. Further analyses show that these banks help acquirers...