Applying Business Intelligence Initiatives in Healthcare and Organizational Settings
Applying Business Intelligence Initiatives in Healthcare and Organizational Settings

Author: Miah, Shah J.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2018-07-13

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1522557199

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Data analysis is an important part of modern business administration, as efficient compilation of information allows managers and business leaders to make the best decisions for the financial solvency of their organizations. Understanding the use of analytics, reporting, and data mining in everyday business environments is imperative to the success of modern businesses. Applying Business Intelligence Initiatives in Healthcare and Organizational Settings incorporates emerging concepts, methods, models, and relevant applications of business intelligence systems within problem contexts of healthcare and other organizational boundaries. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as rise of embedded analytics, competitive advantage, and strategic capability, this book is ideally designed for business analysts, investors, corporate managers, and entrepreneurs seeking to advance their understanding and practice of business intelligence.

Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence

Author: Efraim Turban

Publisher:

Published: 2013-07-17

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781292023526

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For courses on Business Intelligence or Decision Support Systems. A managerial approach to understanding business intelligence systems. To help future managers use and understand analytics, Business Intelligence provides students with a solid foundation of BI that is reinforced with hands-on practice. The second edition features updated information on data mining, text and web mining, and implementation and emerging technologies.

Internationalizing and Privatizing War and Peace
Internationalizing and Privatizing War and Peace

Author: H. Wulf

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-08-05

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0230514812

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In this timely work, the author analyzes the use of private military firms and international interventions of the military. Outsourcing to the private sector takes missions away from the military, but the shift towards international intervention adds new, wider functions to the traditional role of defence. If these two trends continue at the present pace, important security functions will be out of control of parliaments, national governments and international authorities. The state monopoly of violence - an achievement of civilization - is at stake.

In-Memory Data Management
In-Memory Data Management

Author: Hasso Plattner

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-04-17

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 3642295754

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In the last fifty years the world has been completely transformed through the use of IT. We have now reached a new inflection point. This book presents, for the first time, how in-memory data management is changing the way businesses are run. Today, enterprise data is split into separate databases for performance reasons. Multi-core CPUs, large main memories, cloud computing and powerful mobile devices are serving as the foundation for the transition of enterprises away from this restrictive model. This book provides the technical foundation for processing combined transactional and analytical operations in the same database. In the year since we published the first edition of this book, the performance gains enabled by the use of in-memory technology in enterprise applications has truly marked an inflection point in the market. The new content in this second edition focuses on the development of these in-memory enterprise applications, showing how they leverage the capabilities of in-memory technology. The book is intended for university students, IT-professionals and IT-managers, but also for senior management who wish to create new business processes.

Model Selection and Multimodel Inference
Model Selection and Multimodel Inference

Author: Kenneth P. Burnham

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-05-28

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 0387224564

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A unique and comprehensive text on the philosophy of model-based data analysis and strategy for the analysis of empirical data. The book introduces information theoretic approaches and focuses critical attention on a priori modeling and the selection of a good approximating model that best represents the inference supported by the data. It contains several new approaches to estimating model selection uncertainty and incorporating selection uncertainty into estimates of precision. An array of examples is given to illustrate various technical issues. The text has been written for biologists and statisticians using models for making inferences from empirical data.

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: The Official Guide
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: The Official Guide

Author: Dan Volitich

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2008-05-31

Total Pages: 723

ISBN-13: 0071643591

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The Only Authorized Guide to IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Develop, deploy, and maintain a complete BI solution across your enterprise. IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: The Official Guide shows you how to take full advantage of the robust service-oriented architecture and simplified role-based user interfaces. Learn how to create, share, and analyze data-rich reports that lead to increased productivity and better business decisions. Featuring real-world insight and expert tips, this is a must-have guide for IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence users of all levels, from administrators to end users. Measure and monitor performance using dashboards and scorecards Assign user roles and privileges Provide complete and consistent access to a broad range of data sources via Cognos Connection Use Cognos 8 Go! to extend BI to Office applications, mobile devices, and search engines Enable business users to create reports with Query Studio Develop new insights by exploring data in multiple dimensions and perspectives with Analysis Studio Build Dimensional Reports with Report Studio Use Event Studio to identify and deliver mission-critical information Create, modify, organize, and publish a model from Cognos Framework Manager Implement sound security measures Take advantage of the management tools in Cognos Administration to ensure maximum reliability and availability

Analytics at Work
Analytics at Work

Author: Thomas H. Davenport

Publisher: Harvard Business Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1422177696

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As a follow-up to the successful Competing on Analytics, authors Tom Davenport, Jeanne Harris, and Robert Morison provide practical frameworks and tools for all companies that want to use analytics as a basis for more effective and more profitable decision making. Regardless of your company's strategy, and whether or not analytics are your company's primary source of competitive differentiation, this book is designed to help you assess your organization's analytical capabilities, provide the tools to build these capabilities, and put analytics to work. The book helps you answer these pressing questions: What assets do I need in place in my organization in order to use analytics to run my business? Once I have these assets, how do I deploy them to get the most from an analytic approach? How do I get an analytic initiative off the ground in the first place, and then how do I sustain analytics in my organization over time? Packed with tools, frameworks, and all new examples, Analytics at Work makes analytics understandable and accessible and teaches you how to make your company more analytical.

Remote Warfare: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Remote Warfare: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Author: Alasdair McKay

Publisher:

Published: 2021-02

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9781910814567

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Modern warfare is becoming increasingly defined by distance. Today, many Western and non-Western states have shied away from deploying large numbers of their own troops to battlefields. Instead, they have limited themselves to supporting the frontline fighting of local and regional actors against non-state armed forces through the provision of intelligence, training, equipment and airpower. This is remote warfare, the dominant method of military engagement now employed by many states. Despite the increasing prevalence of this distinct form of military engagement, it remains an understudied subject and considerable gaps exist in the academic understanding of it. Bringing together writers from various backgrounds, this edited volume offers a critical enquiry into the use of remote warfare.

The Security-Development Nexus
The Security-Development Nexus

Author: Ramses Amer

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1783080655

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‘The Security-Development Nexus: Peace, Conflict and Development’ approaches the subject of the security-development nexus from a variety of different perspectives. Chapters within this study address the nexus specifically, as well as investigate its related issues, particularly those linked to studies of conflict and peace. These expositions are supported by a strong geographical focus, with case studies from Africa, Asia and Europe being included. Overall, the text’s collected essays provide a detailed and comprehensive view of conflict, security and development.

Systems Thinking
Systems Thinking

Author: Jamshid Gharajedaghi

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2011-08-09

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 0123859166

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Systems Thinking, Third Edition combines systems theory and interactive design to provide an operational methodology for defining problems and designing solutions in an environment increasingly characterized by chaos and complexity. This new edition has been updated to include all new chapters on self-organizing systems as well as holistic, operational, and design thinking. The book covers recent crises in financial systems and job markets, the housing bubble, and environment, assessing their impact on systems thinking. A companion website is available at interactdesign.com. This volume is ideal for senior executives as well as for chief information/operating officers and other executives charged with systems management and process improvement. It may also be a helpful resource for IT/MBA students and academics. - Four NEW chapters on self-organizing systems, holistic thinking, operational thinking, and design thinking - Covers the recent crises in financial systems and job markets globally, the housing bubble, and the environment, assessing their impact on systems thinking - Companion website to accompany the book is available at interactdesign.com