Business Analytics for Decision Making (Custom Edition), 1st edition

Published by Pearson Learning Solutions (February 8, 2018) © 2018

  • Joan Richardson

VitalSource eTextbook

ISBN-13: 9781488624278
Business Analytics for Decision Making (Custom Edition)
Published 2018

Title overview

Business Analytics for Decision Making has been produced for University of Canberra.

It comprises of selected chapters from Computing for Business Success.

Table of contents

  • About this Custom Book
  • Systems thinking and business analytics
  • The date-information-knowledge continuum
  • Information
  • Big Data
  • Systems and systems thinking
  • Systems here, there and everywhere
  • System classifications
  • System characteristics
  • Business organisations as systems
  • Organisational culture
  • Real problems
  • Data processing
  • Characteristics of information
  • Information flow
  • Business information systems
  • Systems thinking
  • Using Rich Pictures to support systems thinking
  • Rich Pictures enable insights
  • Business analytics: Addressing 'hard' problems in context
  • Business analytics - What is it?
  • Business analytics - Why is it important?
  • Case: Solution design project: Hammer Wines
  • Analytics drives business intelligence
  • Data sources and information management
  • Knowledge management
  • Business analytics
  • Designing applications to support business analytics applications
  • The Input-Processing-Output table
  • The Flow Chart
  • Pseudocode
  • Managing information and knowledge in organisations
  • Business analytics - The future
  • Case: Solution design project: Hammer Wines 3
  • Big data visualisation promotes good business decisions
  • Data visualisation
  • Infographics
  • A brief history of data visualisation
  • Data visualisation - What? Why? How?
  • Data visualisation guidelines
  • Static visualisations
  • Video visualisations
  • Data visualisations shaping lives
  • Data visualisations improving business decision making
  • Excel and data visualisation
  • Data visualisation - The future
  • Data visualisation skill sets
  • Case: Solution design project: Hammer Wines

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