Actionable Intelligence: A Guide To Delivering Business Results With Big Data Fast!

When our team members have usable information at their fingertips, they can: Answer questions faster, with little or no effort to collect the data; Make better use of their time planning improved outcomes; Be praised for improving results instead of blamed for past failures. Using this guide book, the reader will have the opportunity to play a part in positively impacting many people by achieving the dream business intelligence has espoused since it was first breathed as a phrase. This is an interactive book with links to webpages and documents throughout. End of chapter contents include: A Point to Ponder: A key concept of what you just read; A Quote to Remember: During our journey, we used quick, memorable phrases to explain a complex situation in simple, yet inspirational terms; A Question to Consider: Take a moment to think about the concepts, how they apply to your environment.

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 Estee 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.