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Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning
by Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne G. Harris
from Harvard Business School Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Five stars but... for the right audience!
  I was excited by the title, some of the reviews and rushed to buy this. Read it quite fast and got little disappointed. Probably the correct title could be ''Advocacy for Competing on Analytics''. To be clear, the book is very good if you are: a student, a junior project manager, a junior consultant, a manager looking for Business Intelligence ideas, an expert looking for tools to sell analytics, or Business Intelligence, to your top managers.
  If you are experienced in using analytics, design and use... more info

• Great Concept - Too Long
  This book could be about half as long and just as effective. After you get through the first few chapters you're pretty much rehashing the same things, but overally the book makes good points.

• A Panacea for Information Overload
  Davenport and Harris have brought a new thinking in business science. They have expanded on CRM also.
  In his book, White Nose, Don DeLillo asks "What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer, but nobody actually knows anything?" Now, with Competing on Analytics, business leaders will know what to do with the huge information they gather, and yet, do nothing with; and infact, too much information which sometimes becomes counterprodustive.
  The winning... more info

• Very disappointing
  I was intrigued by the book's description and I've found other HBS Press books very useful. However, after the foreward by Gary Loveman, the CEO of Harrah's, the book deteriorates into a 186-page argument for the use of analytics in business. The problem with that is I don't need convincing. I'm already interested in using analytics to improve my business - that's why I bought this book! There was very little actionable information presented. If I hadn't been reading this book for a grad school class, I... more info

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