This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet / TechRepublic special feature, explores how you set up an analytics infrastructure that sees around corners and gives you options to avoid a head-on crash. Read ...

Understanding your customers when there’s only a handful isn’t too difficult. But as your company grows and the number of customers expands rapidly, it can be overwhelming to keep up with the change.

Henry Mintzberg, a world-renowned professor of management studies at McGill University, once said, "Management is, above all, a practice where art, science and craft meet." What Mintzberg did not ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Exploring Cloud, AI, Big Data and all things Digital Transformation. Analytics is probably the most important tool a company has ...

While predictive analytics have been an ed tech buzzword in recent years, they are but a midpoint in the evolution of data analytics in higher education. What began as descriptive analytics, the ...

Bazerman, M. H., and M. A. Neale. "Negotiator Rationality and Negotiator Cognition: The Interactive Roles of Prescriptive and Descriptive Research." In Negotiation ...

Prescriptive analytics is the final stage of business analytics. Learn more and read tips on how to get started with prescriptive analytics. Technology has given us the ability to forecast enterprise ...

Prescriptive analytics has become a real competitive advantage for marketers. Here's why. Analytics has long been the backbone of marketing success. Analytics enables marketers to make data-driven ...

I was watching a short video by Babson College Prof. Thomas Davenport on the Harvard Business Review website recently and found it to be a good, simplified explanation of analytics. (Stop! Don't swipe ...