num_pages: 229
description: Why Everyone Needs Analytical SkillsWelcome to the age of data. No matter your interests (sports movies politics) your industry (finance marketing technology manufacturing) or the type of organization you work for (big company nonprofit small start-up)your world is awash with data.As a successful manager today you must be able to make sense of all this information. You need to be conversant with analytical terminology and methods and able to work with quantitative information. This book promises to become your quantitative literacy guidehelping you develop the analytical skills you need right now in order to summarize data find the meaning in it and extract its value.In Keeping Up with the Quants authors professors and analytics experts Thomas Davenport and Jinho Kim offer practical tools to improve your understanding of data analytics and enhance your thinking and decision making. Youll gain crucial skills including: How to formulate a hypothesis How to gather and analyze relevant data How to interpret and communicate analytical results How to develop habits of quantitative thinking How to deal effectively with the quants in your organizationBig data and the analytics based on it promise to change virtually every industry and business function over the next decade. If you dont have a business degree or if you arent comfortable with statistics and quantitative methods this book is for you. Keeping Up with the Quants will give you the skills you need to master this new challengeand gain a significant competitive edge.
language: English
title: Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics
publisher: Harvard Business Review Press