Global Business Analytics Models ─ Concepts and Applications in Predictive, Healthcare, Supply Chain, and Finance Analytics

Business analytics can help you manage the accelerating risk and uncertainty associated with today’s global business environments. InGlobal Business Analytics Models, Hokey Min empowers managers to use today’s analytical tools and techniques to gain reliable, actionable international business intelligence, and to solve many of the most urgent problems their global businesses face.

Min offers a practical, easy-to-understand overview of business analytics in a global context, focusing especially on managerial and strategic implications. After demystifying the basic quantitative tools of modern analytics, he demonstrates them at work in global applications ranging from finance and supply chain management to healthcare. Coverage includes:

• Developing analytic thinking, and operationalizing Big Data in global environments
• Capitalizing on business analytics to build a winning global strategy
• Collecting, sorting, prioritizing, storing, and managing data
• Predicting international customer behavior, segmenting global markets, and forecasting demand in unfamiliar foreign markets
• Performing international risk and assessments more effectively
• Using analytics to help plan the financing of global business operations
• Integrating international social and mobile analytics
• Overcoming cultural and technical differences that complicate the use of analytics in global firms
• Establishing effective performance metrics for your use of analytics
• Taming Big Data for global Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
• Making better decisions about global suppliers, manufacturing, distribution, transportation, and supply chain resilience
• Analyzing clinical, pharmaceutical, and patient behavior data to improve healthcare
• Anticipating future paths of innovation in global business analytics

HOKEY MIN (Toledo, OH Area) holds the James R. Good Chair in Global Supply Chain Strategy at Bowling Green State University. His recent publications includeHealthcare Supply Chain Management: Basic Concepts and Principles. He holds a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University - The Max M. Fisher College of Business, and an M.S. in Operations Management from University of South Carolina-Columbia. Min is author of The Essentials of Supply Chain Management: New Business Concepts and Applications.