Keith Carter's Actionable Intelligence: A Guide to Delivering Business Results with Big Data Fast! is the comprehensive guide to achieving the dream that business intelligence practitioners have been chasing since the concept itself came into being. Written by an IT visionary with extensive global supply chain experience and insight, this book describes what happens when team members have accurate, reliable, usable, and timely information at their fingertips. With a focus on leveraging big data, the book provides expert guidance on developing an analytical ecosystem to effectively manage, use the internal and external information to deliver business results.

This book is written by an author who's been in the trenches for people who are in the trenches. It's for practitioners in the real world, who know delivering results is easier said than done - fraught with failure, and difficult politics. A landscape where reason and passion are needed to make a real difference.

This book lays out the appropriate way to establish a culture of fact-based decision making, innovation, forward looking measurements, and appropriate high-speed governance. Readers will enable their organization to:

• Answer strategic questions faster
• Reduce data acquisition time and increase analysis time to improve outcomes
• Shift the focus to positive results rather than past failures
• Expand opportunities by more effectively and thoughtfully leveraging information

Big data makes big promises, but it cannot deliver without the right recipe of people, processes and technology in place. It's about choosing the right people, giving them the right tools, and taking a thoughtful-rather than formulaic--approach. Actionable Intelligence provides expert guidance toward envisioning, budgeting, implementing, and delivering real benefits.

The data revolution was supposed to lead to better business and faster improvements, but for employees, big data often just means a big headache. Business leaders need to get all stakeholders on board with the idea that big data has the power to make life easier and improve business outcomes. That's Actionable Intelligence. In this book, Keith B. Carter takes the age-old idea of business intelligence and turns it into something businesses can actually use.

It's true that if you can gather all the right data into one place, you can come up with some significant truths that might not have been accessible a decade or two ago. It's also true that the use of big data can make organizations more agile and improve their ability to look forward to address issues before they become problems. But all this is easier said than done. Unlike many books on the market, Actionable Intelligence focuses less on the saying and more on the doing. Executives and leaders will appreciate the concrete guidance on hiring the right people, gaining their trust, and processing massive sets of data in a way that actually makes things happen faster.

Actionable Intelligence is not just about making charts and graphs. Author Keith Carter covers visualization and the basics of big data, but his approach is unique. With interactive elements and thought-provoking questions peppered throughout the text, he encourages readers to begin with a solid foundation—a firm business purpose and a genuine desire to improve the lives of others and deliver sustainable improvements using data. Carter understands the need for leaders to surround themselves with people who are passionate about moving the organization forward and doing whatever it takes to deliver results. Actionable Intelligence is a new way of thinking about data, and it could be the spark your organization needs to think bigger and act better.