Don't simply show your data--tell a story with it!

Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminative text are grounded in theory, but made accessible through numerous real-world examples--ready for immediate application to your next graph or presentation.

Storytelling is not an inherent skill, especially when it comes to data visualization, and the tools at our disposal don't make it any easier. This book demonstrates how to go beyond conventional tools to reach the root of your data, and how to use your data to create an engaging, informative, compelling story. Specifically, you'll learn how to:

• Understand the importance of context and audience
• Determine the appropriate type of graph for your situation
• Recognize and eliminate the clutter clouding your information
• Direct your audience's attention to the most important parts of your data
• Think like a designer and utilize concepts of design in data visualization
• Leverage the power of storytelling to help your message resonate with your audience

Together, the lessons in this book will help you turn your data into high impact visual stories that stick with your audience. Rid your world of ineffective graphs, one exploding 3D pie chart at a time. There is a story in your data--Storytelling with Data will give you the skills and power to tell it!

KPI Checklists is for people who have the task of creating new KPIs for their organisation, have been asked to improve or enhance existing KPIs or need help implementing a measurement system. Using brief explanations and practical checklists, this book will help you deliver meaningful measures that work, create reports that support decision-making and deploy the tools you need to engage the rest of your organisation.

Modern ERP provides a comprehensive overview of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and related systems and technologies and can be used in an undergraduate or graduate information systems or supply chain course. The book is also useful and practical for professionals interested in learning more about ERP systems. This 4th edition continues to be vendor-agnostic and has been substantially revised to keep pace with technological advances and current research in ERP. Modern ERP begins with an introduction to ERP, followed by ERP technology, business process reengineering (BPR), and process mapping. Also discussed is the myriad of activities involved in planning for and implementing ERP systems and the functionality included in ERP such as financial management, sales and order fulfillment, supply chain, and human capital management. The book concludes with ERP security and business analytics. Innovative graphics and screenshots of ERP, CRM, and business analytics software have been included in the text to facilitate the learning process.

What if you could unlock the full power of artificial intelligence and lead your business to unparalleled success? The future of innovation starts here-are you ready to take the lead?

The AI Lead: Overcoming Data Drag to Accelerate Digital Dominance is more than just an artificial intelligence book-it's your ultimate roadmap to mastering the digital revolution. In today's fast-paced world, where AI technologies are shaping the future of business, leaders face a critical challenge: how to harness the transformative power of artificial intelligence while navigating complex data landscapes.

Authored by Dr. Brian Lambert, an expert in organizational management and technology, this book equips leaders with the tools, knowledge, and confidence to thrive in the artificial intelligence future. Packed with actionable strategies, real-world case studies, and practical frameworks, it offers everything you need to understand AI for business, overcome data challenges, and drive meaningful innovation.

Whether you're exploring AI for the first time or are a seasoned professional, this book about AI demystifies the complexities and provides a step-by-step guide to using artificial intelligence (AI) as a catalyst for growth. It bridges the gap between technology and leadership, empowering readers to turn data into strategic assets and build an AI-ready culture. If you're looking for technology leadership books or business AI books that truly make a difference, this is the one for you.

Does it seem you've formulated a rock-solid strategy, yet your firm still can't get ahead? If so, construct a solid foundation for business execution--an IT infrastructure and digitized business processes to automate your company's core capabilities. In Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution, authors Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David C. Robertson show you how.

The key? Make tough decisions about which processes you must execute well, then implement the IT systems needed to digitize those processes. Citing numerous companies worldwide, the authors show how constructing the right enterprise architecture enhances profitability and time to market, improves strategy execution, and even lowers IT costs. Though clear, engaging explanation, they demonstrate how to define your operating model--your vision of how your firm will survive and grow--and implement it through your enterprise architecture. Their counterintuitive but vital message: when it comes to executing your strategy, your enterprise architecture may matter far more than your strategy itself.

Do you think process improvement is a tedious, low-value task confined to the back office of overstaffed companies? Think again.

In this insightful book, you'll discover why and how process is the key to consistent delivery, a crucial factor that separates winners from losers in most organizations. The message inside is clear: Embrace process improvement, or risk being overtaken by competitors who do.

The author, Vaughn Thurman, a passionate tech leader and company builder, presents undeniable empirical data showing the significant and sustainable advantages that process improvement brings to organizations. He then reveals how to cut through the complexity, drudgery, and friction typically associated with process improvement efforts.

Finally, Thurman guides you through easy-to-understand steps to effectively champion and execute change within your organization. This book will transform your perspective on process improvement and equip you with the tools to lead your company or organization to market-leading success.

Vaughn Thurman is the Founder and Chief HighGear Evangelist at HighGear, Inc., a leading, intuitive no-code platform for business analysts to rapidly build enterprise-grade workflow applications.

Demystifying Artificial Intelligence for Decision-Makers in Boardrooms and C-Suites

In the rapidly evolving world of business, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a distant concept-it's a present reality that every leader must understand and leverage. AI Unplugged: A Straightforward Guide for Executives is your essential companion in navigating this complex landscape.

This book breaks down the intricacies of AI, translating technical jargon into plain language that any executive can grasp. From understanding the fundamental concepts like Machine Learning and Neural Networks to exploring advanced topics like Retrieval- Augmented Generation (RAG), this guide empowers you with the knowledge to make informed decisions that drive success.

But this isn't just another tech manual. It's a strategic playbook designed for leaders who need to stay ahead of the curve. You'll discover practical insights into how AI can revolutionize your industry, whether it's optimizing operations, enhancing customer experiences, or creating new revenue streams. With real-world examples, probing questions to challenge your thinking, and actionable advice, this book ensures you're not just following the AI trend but leading it.

Step into the future of business with confidence. This is the guide every boardroom and corner office needs to navigate the AI revolution.

You're intelligent, right? So you've already figured out that Business Intelligence can be pretty valuable in making the right decisions about your business. But you've heard at least a dozen definitions of what it is, and heard of at least that many BI tools. Where do you start?

Business Intelligence For Dummies makes BI understandable It takes you step by step through the technologies and the alphabet soup, so you can choose the right technology and implement a successful BI environment. You'll see how the applications and technologies work together to access, analyze, and present data that you can use to make better decisions about your products, customers, competitors, and more.

You'll find out how to:

• Understand the principles and practical elements of BI
• Determine what your business needs
• Compare different approaches to BI
• Build a solid BI architecture and roadmap
• Design, develop, and deploy your BI plan
• Relate BI to data warehousing, ERP, CRM, and e-commerce
• Analyze emerging trends and developing BI tools to see what else may be useful

Whether you're the business owner or the person charged with developing and implementing a BI strategy, checking out Business Intelligence For Dummies is a good business decision.

In Information Rules, authors Shapiro and Varian reveal that many classic economic concepts can provide the insight and understanding necessary to succeed in the information age. They argue that if managers seriously want to develop effective strategies for competing in the new economy, they must understand the fundamental economics of information technology. Whether information takes the form of software code or recorded music, is published in a book or magazine, or even posted on a website, managers must know how to evaluate the consequences of pricing, protecting, and planning new versions of information products, services, and systems. The first book to distill the economics of information and networks into practical business strategies, Information Rules is a guide to the winning moves that can help business leaders navigate successfully through the tough decisions of the information economy.

Here's what you should know to manage data records efficiently

With proper electronic data management, your business can lower costs, improve efficiency, eliminate duplication, and be protected in the event of a lawsuit. This book provides an overview of records management solutions and implementation strategies in plain, non-technical English. Step-by-step instructions show you how to begin managing records and information and how to maintain the program once you have it established. Sample forms for inventory, scheduling, and necessary documentation are also available on the companion website.

• Electronic records management offers cost savings, greater efficiency, and protection in case of legal action; this book gets you started on an effective data management system
• This plain-English guide helps you determine what constitutes a record, shows you how to inventory records and create an efficient way to file both electronic and paper copies, and explains how to create a retention schedule
• Walks you through switching to electronic record-keeping, what to look for in a records management system, implementing best practices, ensuring that your system will stay current, and using the system effectively
• Helps you assure that the destruction of any sensitive information is conducted and documented correctly

Records Management For Dummies helps your business save money and improve efficiency with effective electronic records management.

This book provides a blueprint of how to develop a discipline for process management that applies to any type of orientation.

As the economy moves toward a services orientation, companies are struggling with how to improve their offerings. Process management is a key component of the services that companies provide, and author Sue Conger has written a helpful tool to learn more of this key component now helping companies around the world.

This book has three main parts: mapping, improvement, and error-proofing and metrics. In the first part-mapping-the reader will learn how to map a process so that the map is immediately understandable for identifying the roles, work steps, and automation support used in process delivery. The second part improvement-provides a series of techniques for defining, prioritizing, and analyzing problems from several perspectives. The first perspective is called leaning, and its purpose is to remove waste from an existing process. The second perspective is cleaning, during which the remaining steps following leaning are analyzed for possible improvement. The third perspective is greening, which explores opportunities and trade-offs for outsourcing, coproduction, and environmental improvements related to the process.

The final part of the book-error-proofing and metrics-presents several techniques for ensuring risk mitigation for the new process and for measuring changes that define their impacts and discusses a method for proposing changes to executives in a case for change. And throughout this book, Conger provides a blueprint of how to develop a discipline for process management that applies to any type of orientation.

Le Guide du corpus de connaissance en analyse métier (Business Analysis Body of Knowledge(R) - Guide BABOK(R))

est la seule norme de pratique reconnue mondialement pour l'analyse métier. Développé au moyen d'un

processus rigoureux fondé sur le consensus, le Guide BABOK(R) incorpore la sagesse et l'expérience d'un collectif

d'experts de partout dans le monde.

Les éditions précédentes ont guidé des centaines de milliers de professionnels dans leur travail et ont été

adoptées par des centaines d'entreprises comme base de leur analyse métier.

Cette dernière version du guide étend sa portée au-delà de l'analyse métier, dans des projets utilisant le mode

agile, la gestion de processus métier, l'intelligence métier (business Intelligence) et d'architecture d'entreprise.

WINNER: CILIP's Knowledge and Information Management Award 2019 - Information Resources Print Category

The way an organization manages and disseminates its knowledge is key to informed business decision-making, effectiveness and competitive edge. The Knowledge Manager's Handbook takes you step by step through the processes needed to define and embed an effective knowledge management framework within an organization.

This second edition now includes clear guidance on the best practice requirements from the first ever internationally recognised standard for knowledge management, ISO 30401:2018, as well as content on the impact of AI and data analytics. Nick Milton and Patrick Lambe work through each stage of creating and implementing a knowledge management framework for an organization's specific needs, based around the four essential aspects of knowledge management: people, processes, technologies and governance. With updated international case studies from organizations of all sizes and sectors, along with user-friendly templates and checklists to help implement effective knowledge management procedures, The Knowledge Manager's Handbook is the end-to-end guide to making a sustainable change in the knowledge management culture.

This best-selling, comprehensive text is the go to book for newly appointed records managers, as well as experienced records and information management (RIM) professionals who want a review of specific topics; supervisors who oversee RIM functions; decision makers who develop strategies and tactics for managing information assets; and for students in RIM or allied disciplines, such as library science, archives management, information systems, and office administration. The third edition has been thoroughly updated and expanded to: Set the professional discipline of RIM in the context of information governance, risk mitigation, and compliance and indicate how it contributes to those initiatives in government agencies, businesses, and not-for-profit organizationsProvide a global perspective, with international examples and a discussion of the differences in records management issues in different parts of the worldIts eight chapters are practical, rather than theoretical, and reflect the scope and responsibilities of RIM programs inall types of organizations. Emphasizing best practices and citing relevant standards, these chapters focus on: The role of RIM as a business disciplineRecords retention schedule development and implementationRecords center operationsDocument imaging technologiesVital records program development and risk managementPhysical and electronic filing principles and methodsDigital document manageme

Data-gathering technology is more sophisticated than ever, as are the ethical standards for using this data. This second edition shows how to navigate this complex environment.

Data Ethics provides a practical framework for the implementation of ethical principles into information management systems. It shows how to assess the types of ethical dilemmas organizations might face as they become more data-driven. This fully updated edition includes guidance on sustainability and environmental management and on how ethical frameworks can be standardized across cultures that have conflicting values. There is also discussion of data colonialism, the challenge of ethical trade-offs with ad-tech and analytics such as Covid-19 tracking systems and case studies on Smart Cities and Demings Principles.

As the pace of developments in data-processing technology continues to increase, it is vital to capitalize on the opportunities this affords while ensuring that ethical standards and ideals are not compromised. Written by internationally regarded experts in the field, Data Ethics is the essential guide for students and practitioners to optimizing ethical data standards in organizations.

Why are there so many gaps between what firms know they should do and what they actually do? Why do so many companies fail to implement the experience and insight they've worked so hard to acquire? The Knowing-Doing Gap is the first book to confront the challenge of turning knowledge about how to improve performance into actions that produce measurable results. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton, well-known authors and teachers, identify the causes of the knowing-doing gap and explain how to close it. The message is clear--firms that turn knowledge into action avoid the smart talk trap. Executives must use plans, analysis, meetings, and presentations to inspire deeds, not as substitutes for action. Companies that act on their knowledge also eliminate fear, abolish destructive internal competition, measure what matters, and promote leaders who understand the work people do in their firms. The authors use examples from dozens of firms that show how some overcome the knowing-doing gap, why others try but fail, and how still others avoid the gap in the first place. The Knowing-Doing Gap is sure to resonate with executives everywhere who struggle daily to make their firms both know and do what they know. It is a refreshingly candid, useful, and realistic guide for improving performance in today's business.

How did we end up here, masters of scientific insight, purveyors of ever more powerful technologies, astride the burning planet that created us, and now responsible for cleaning up the mess and determining the future direction of all of life? And what do we do about it?

Technology is Dead is a book that attempts to answer both of those questions. It is a book of both challenge and hope, written for those who are able or willing to lead us out of our global predicament. It is a book for everybody: the politicians, CEOs, community leaders, everyday parents, and young people who understand that we must change our ways to ensure a sustainable future for all living things and the planet we rely on.

Upon reading this book, you will get:

- A fundamental comprehension of data analytics, including its types

- An understanding of data analytics processes, software tools, and a range of analytics methodologies

- A comprehension of what daily tasks and procedures the data analysts follow

- An investigation into the vast field of big data analytics, covering its possibilities and challenges

- An understanding of the existing legal frameworks, as well as ethical and privacy issues in data analytics

- Application-based learning using a variety of real-world case studies

From raw data to actionable insights - journey through the essentials of data analytics.

Data Analytics Essentials You Always Wanted To Know is an approachable and captivating guide to understand the complicated world of data

Data analytics is becoming increasingly important in today's data-driven society, and so has the demand for data analysts. Data Analytics Essentials You Always Wanted to Know (Data Analytics Essentials) is a comprehensive yet succinct manual, perfect for you if you are trying to understand the fundamentals of data analytics. It gives a concise introduction to data analytics and its current applicability.

This book is a great tool for professionals switching to a career in data analytics and for students who want to learn the basics of data analytics. It will give you a strong foundation by explaining everything in an easy-to-understand language.

Data Analytics Essentials goes beyond a theoretical manual and contains real-world case studies and fun facts to help you enhance your knowledge. The chapter summaries and self-assessment tests along with every chapter will help you test yourself as you move from one concept to the next.

The new world is one based on knowledge. Lean KM offers a practical approach to Knowledge Management, filled with historical references and interesting stories. It brought back wonderful memories of NASA.-Dr. Edward J Hoffman, Former NASA CKO and Director of the NASA Academy of Program, Project, & Engineering Leadership (APPEL), CEO Knowledge Strategies LLC Lecturer, Columbia University, Information and Knowledge Strategy (IKNS)

Lean Knowledge Management Helped Change NASA's Culture and It Can Do the Same for Your Organization.

NASA suffered three human spaceflight tragedies and Lean Knowledge Management was a major tool that helped NASA management implement massive cultural changes.

Traditional knowledge management is too often regarded as overly complicated or a wasteful bureaucratic exercise, but Lean Knowledge Management can become a critical component for your organization to operate effectively, efficiently and safely.

Lean Knowledge Management simplifies the process by:

• Clearly defining your organization's key employees,
• Filtering the enormous amount of internal information into critical knowledge.
• Utilizing a myriad of resources to get this critical knowledge to the people who need it most - the very people that can make your organization successful.

Repetitive mistakes and failures can cost an organization millions of dollars in lost revenue, scrap, and even lawsuits. Lean Knowledge Management strips away the academic jargon and implements a practical, cost-effective, organic program emphasizing lessons of the past.

Knowledge is free! Your hard-earned corporate knowledge is right in front of you, why risk losing it and having to pay for it all over again?

Knowledge is power! Lean Knowledge Management is a structured plan to harness that power for your organization.