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

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

  • Joan Richardson

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

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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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