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Book System Performance and Management Analytics

Download or read book System Performance and Management Analytics written by P. K. Kapur and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shares key insights into system performance and management analytics, demonstrating how the field of analytics is currently changing and how it is used to monitor companies’ efforts to drive performance.Managing business performance facilitates the effective accomplishment of strategic and operational goals, and there is a clear and direct correlation between using performance management applications and improved business and organizational results. As such, performance and management analytics can yield a range of direct and indirect benefits, boost operational efficiency and unlock employees’ latent potential, while at the same time aligning services with overarching goals.The book addresses a range of topics, including software reliability assessment, testing, quality management, system-performance management, analysis using soft-computing techniques, and management analytics. It presents a balanced, holistic approach to viewing the world from both a technical and managerial perspective by considering performance and management analytics. Accordingly, it offers a comprehensive guide to one of the most pressing issues in today’s technology-dominated world, namely, that most companies and organizations find themselves awash in a sea of data, but lack the human capital, appropriate tools and knowledge to use it to help them create a competitive edge.

Book Performance Management

Download or read book Performance Management written by Gary Cokins and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Praise for Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics "A highly accessible collection of essays on contemporary thinking in performance management. Readers will get excellent overviews on the Balanced Scorecard, strategy maps, incentives, management accounting, activity-based costing, customer lifetime value, and sustainable shareholder value creation." —Robert S. Kaplan, Harvard Business School; coauthor of The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action, The Execution Premium, and many other books "Gary Cokins demonstrates in this book that performance management is not a mysterious black art, but a structured, process-oriented discipline. If you want your performance management system to be a smoothly running analytical machine, read and apply the ideas in this book—it's all you need." —Thomas H. Davenport, President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management, Babson College; coauthor of Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning "Drawing on a deep reservoir of knowledge and experience gained from hundreds of customer engagements around the world, Gary Cokins offers an authoritative examination of the major dimensions of performance management. Cokins not only paints a rich and textured view of the major principles and concepts driving performance management implementations, he offers a nuanced look at the important subtleties that can spell the difference between success and failure. This is an informative and enjoyable text to read!" —Wayne Eckerson, Director of Research, The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI); author of Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business "[In this] very insightful book, the view of an integrated performance management framework with a goal to link various operational activities with business strategy is an excellent approach to manage and improve business. Gary's explanation of risk-based performance management, for providing the capability to achieve long-term objectives with reliably calculated risks, is definitely thought provoking." —Srini Pallia, Global Head and Vice President of Business Technology Services, Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, India "Gary Cokins is clearly one of the world's thought leaders in the area of performance management, and the need for integrated performance management, improvement and execution is clearly at a premium in these challenging economic times. This book is a must read for CEOs, CFOs, and management accountants around the globe seeking higher levels of sustainable business performance for their stakeholders." —Jeffrey C. Thomson, President and CEO, Institute of Management Accountants

Book Analytics for Leaders

Download or read book Analytics for Leaders written by N. I. Fisher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical introduction to a novel system of performance measurement for a variety of enterprises, written for practitioners and students alike.

Book Handbook of Research on Organizational Transformations through Big Data Analytics

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Organizational Transformations through Big Data Analytics written by Tavana, Madjid and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big data analytics utilizes a wide range of software and analytical tools to provide immediate, relevant information for efficient decision-making. Companies are recognizing the immense potential of BDA, but ensuring the data is appropriate and error-free is the largest hurdle in implementing BDA applications. The Handbook of Research on Organizational Transformations through Big Data Analytics not only catalogues the existing platforms and technologies, it explores new trends within the field of big data analytics (BDA). Containing new and existing research materials and insights on the various approaches to BDA; this publication is intended for researchers, IT professionals, and CIOs interested in the best ways to implement BDA applications and technologies.

Book Performance Improvement in Hospitals and Health Systems

Download or read book Performance Improvement in Hospitals and Health Systems written by James R. Langabeer II and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthcare Organizations offer significant opportunities for change and improvement in their overall performance. Hospitals and clinics are generally large, complex, and inefficient, and need serious development in process workflow and management systems, which will ultimately lead to better patient and financial outcomes. The National Academy of Medicine has stated that hospital systems are broken, and that they must begin by "... improving hospital efficiency and patient flow, and using operational management methods and information technologies." In fact, costs and quality are two of the important aspects of the "triple aim" in healthcare. One area that offers significant potential for improvement is through the application of performance improvement methods to patient and process flows. Performance improvement has a significant impact on a hospital’s over financial and strategic performance. Performance improvement involves the deployment of quantitative and scientific methods to model and influence the functioning of organizations. Performance improvement professionals are tasked with managing a variety of activities, such as deploying new information technologies, serving as project managers for construction events, re-engineering departmental process workflow, eliminating bottlenecks, and improving the flow and movement of patients between resource-intensive clinical areas. All of these are high risk, and require use of advanced, sophisticated methods to improve efficiency and quality, while minimizing disruptions from change. This updated edition is a comprehensive and concise guide to performance improvement in healthcare. It describes the management engineering principles focused on designing optimal management and information systems and processes. Case studies and examples are integrated throughout all chapters.

Book Managing Performance in Turbulent Times

Download or read book Managing Performance in Turbulent Times written by Ed Barrows and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Straightforward playbook for executing world-class strategy for tangible results Designed with three key ideas: leverage the tools that are working, simplify the model, and make the content readable for managers, Managing Performance in Turbulent Times is a road map for the modern strategy manager. Through their simplified execution process the authors—performance management experts—show executives how to get results and execute even in the most difficult conditions. Addresses importance of adaptability to change within today's business environment Explores the environmental turbulence that constantly confounds virtually all organizational systems, with workable solutions Provides a streamlined execution process any organization can use to improve business results Managers need tools to do their jobs better. Filled with proven solutions, this book reveals how to get results through successful strategy execution, presenting a process that will help your organization execute strategy in a simplified, efficient manner.

Book Performance Dashboards

Download or read book Performance Dashboards written by Wayne W. Eckerson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tips, techniques, and trends on harnessing dashboard technology to optimize business performance In Performance Dashboards, Second Edition, author Wayne Eckerson explains what dashboards are, where they can be used, and why they are important to measuring and managing performance. As Director of Research for The Data Warehousing Institute, a worldwide association of business intelligence professionals, Eckerson interviewed dozens of organizations that have built various types of performance dashboards in different industries and lines of business. Their practical insights explore how you can effectively turbo-charge performance–management initiatives with dashboard technology. Includes all-new case studies, industry research, news chapters on "Architecting Performance Dashboards" and "Launching and Managing the Project" and updated information on designing KPIs, designing dashboard displays, integrating dashboards, and types of dashboards. Provides a solid foundation for understanding performance dashboards, business intelligence, and performance management Addresses the next generation of performance dashboards, such as Mashboards and Visual Discovery tools, and including new techniques for designing dashboards and developing key performance indicators Offers guidance on how to incorporate predictive analytics, what-if modeling, collaboration, and advanced visualization techniques This updated book, which is 75% rewritten, provides a foundation for understanding performance dashboards, business intelligence, and performance management to optimize performance and accelerate results.

Book Decision Management  Concepts  Methodologies  Tools  and Applications

Download or read book Decision Management Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 2314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The implementation of effective decision making protocols is crucial in any organizational environment in modern society. Emerging advancements in technology and analytics have optimized uses and applications of decision making systems. Decision Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a compendium of the latest academic material on the control, support, usage, and strategies for implementing efficient decision making systems across a variety of industries and fields. Featuring comprehensive coverage on numerous perspectives, such as data visualization, pattern analysis, and predictive analytics, this multi-volume book is an essential reference source for researchers, academics, professionals, managers, students, and practitioners interested in the maintenance and optimization of decision management processes.

Book Enterprise Performance Management Done Right

Download or read book Enterprise Performance Management Done Right written by Ron Dimon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-03-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A workable blueprint for developing and implementing performancemanagement in order to improve revenue growth and profitmargins Enterprise performance management (EPM) technology has beenrapidly advancing, especially in the areas of predictive analysisand cloud-based solutions. Real Enterprise PerformanceManagement introduces a framework for implementing and managingnext-generation functionality for better insight, focus, andalignment of EPM. This blueprint shows that EPM can have a directpositive impact on revenue growth, operating margin, assetutilization, and cash cycle efficiency. Introduces a framework for implementing and managingnext-generation functionality for better insight, focus, andalignment Reveals that EPM can have a strong impact on revenue growth,operating margin, asset utilization, cash cycle efficiency Today's businesses have a great deal of data and technology, butless-than-fact decisions are still made. Executives need astructured framework for gathering, analyzing, and debating thebest ways to deploy capital, people and time. Real EnterprisePerformance Management joins IT and finance in a digestibleblueprint for developing and implementing performance management inorder to improve revenue growth and profit margins.

Book Enterprise Analytics

Download or read book Enterprise Analytics written by Thomas H. Davenport and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2013 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "International Institute for Analytics"--Dust jacket.

Book Decision Management Systems

Download or read book Decision Management Systems written by James Taylor and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A very rich book sprinkled with real-life examples as well as battle-tested advice.” —Pierre Haren, VP ILOG, IBM "James does a thorough job of explaining Decision Management Systems as enablers of a formidable business transformation.” —Deepak Advani, Vice President, Business Analytics Products and SPSS, IBM Build Systems That Work Actively to Help You Maximize Growth and Profits Most companies rely on operational systems that are largely passive. But what if you could make your systems active participants in optimizing your business? What if your systems could act intelligently on their own? Learn, not just report? Empower users to take action instead of simply escalating their problems? Evolve without massive IT investments? Decision Management Systems can do all that and more. In this book, the field’s leading expert demonstrates how to use them to drive unprecedented levels of business value. James Taylor shows how to integrate operational and analytic technologies to create systems that are more agile, more analytic, and more adaptive. Through actual case studies, you’ll learn how to combine technologies such as predictive analytics, optimization, and business rules—improving customer service, reducing fraud, managing risk, increasing agility, and driving growth. Both a practical how-to guide and a framework for planning, Decision Management Systems focuses on mainstream business challenges. Coverage includes Understanding how Decision Management Systems can transform your business Planning your systems “with the decision in mind” Identifying, modeling, and prioritizing the decisions you need to optimize Designing and implementing robust decision services Monitoring your ongoing decision-making and learning how to improve it Proven enablers of effective Decision Management Systems: people, process, and technology Identifying and overcoming obstacles that can derail your Decision Management Systems initiative

Book Smart Analytics  Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Performance Management in a Global Digitalised Economy

Download or read book Smart Analytics Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Performance Management in a Global Digitalised Economy written by Pallavi Tyagi and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-29 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Covid 19 pandemic has created chaos in the business world and forced leaders to rethink their operational status quo. Though the benefits outweigh the risks, the challenges in digitalised economies are as sophisticated as the solutions they offer.

Book High Performance Big Data Analytics

Download or read book High Performance Big Data Analytics written by Pethuru Raj and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a detailed review of high-performance computing infrastructures for next-generation big data and fast data analytics. Features: includes case studies and learning activities throughout the book and self-study exercises in every chapter; presents detailed case studies on social media analytics for intelligent businesses and on big data analytics (BDA) in the healthcare sector; describes the network infrastructure requirements for effective transfer of big data, and the storage infrastructure requirements of applications which generate big data; examines real-time analytics solutions; introduces in-database processing and in-memory analytics techniques for data mining; discusses the use of mainframes for handling real-time big data and the latest types of data management systems for BDA; provides information on the use of cluster, grid and cloud computing systems for BDA; reviews the peer-to-peer techniques and tools and the common information visualization techniques, used in BDA.

Book Network Performance and Fault Analytics for LTE Wireless Service Providers

Download or read book Network Performance and Fault Analytics for LTE Wireless Service Providers written by Deepak Kakadia and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to describe how to leverage emerging technologies big data analytics and SDN, to address challenges specific to LTE and IP network performance and fault management data in order to more efficiently manage and operate an LTE wireless networks. The proposed integrated solutions permit the LTE network service provider to operate entire integrated network, from RAN to Core , from UE to application service, as one unified system and correspondingly collect and align disparate key metrics and data, using an integrated and holistic approach to network analysis. The LTE wireless network performance and fault involves the network performance and management of network elements in EUTRAN, EPC and IP transport components, not only as individual components, but also as nuances of inter-working of these components. The key metrics for EUTRAN include radio access network accessibility, retainability, integrity, availability and mobility. The key metrics for EPC include MME accessibility, mobility and capacity, SGW, PGW capacity and connectivity. In the first parts of the book, the authors describe fundamental analytics techniques, and various key network partitions - RAN, Backhaul, Metro and Core of a typical LTE Wireless Service Provider Network. The second part of the book develops more advanced analytic techniques that can be used to solve complex wireless network problems. The second part of this book also describes practical and novel solutions for LTE service network performance and fault management systems using big data engineering. Self-organizing network (SON) architecture is presented as a way to utilize network performance and fault analytics to enable network automation. SON can significantly improve operational efficiencies and speed up network deployment. This book provides various ways to leverage data science to more intelligently and reliably to automate and manage a wireless network. The contents of the book should be useful to professional engineers and networking experts involved in LTE network operations and management. The content will also be of interest to researchers, academic and corporate, interested in the developments in fault analytics in LTE networks.

Book Optimization Models in Software Reliability

Download or read book Optimization Models in Software Reliability written by Anu G. Aggarwal and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book begins with an introduction to software reliability, models and techniques. The book is an informative book covering the strategies needed to assess software failure behaviour and its quality, as well as the application of optimization tools for major managerial decisions related to the software development process. It features a broad range of topics including software reliability assessment and apportionment, optimal allocation and selection decisions and upgradations problems. It moves through a variety of problems related to the evolving field of optimization of software reliability engineering, including software release time, resource allocating, budget planning and warranty models, which are each explored in depth in dedicated chapters. This book provides a comprehensive insight into present-day practices in software reliability engineering, making it relevant to students, researchers, academics and practising consultants and engineers.

Book Advances in Production Management Systems  Innovative and Knowledge Based Production Management in a Global Local World

Download or read book Advances in Production Management Systems Innovative and Knowledge Based Production Management in a Global Local World written by Bernard Grabot and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three volumes IFIP AICT 438, 439, and 440 constitute the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2014, held in Ajaccio, France, in September 2014. The 233 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 271 submissions. They are organized in 6 parts: knowledge discovery and sharing; knowledge-based planning and scheduling; knowledge-based sustainability; knowledge-based services; knowledge-based performance improvement, and case studies.

Book Advancement in Business Analytics Tools for Higher Financial Performance

Download or read book Advancement in Business Analytics Tools for Higher Financial Performance written by Gharoie Ahangar, Reza and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relentless growth of data in financial markets has boosted the demand for more advanced analytical tools to facilitate and improve financial planning. The ability to constructively use this data is limited for managers and investors without the proper theoretical support. Within this context, there is an unmet demand for combining analytical finance methods with business analytics topics to inform better investment decisions. Advancement in Business Analytics Tools for Higher Financial Performance explores the financial applications of business analytics tools that can help financial managers and investors to better understand financial theory and improve institutional investment practices. This book explores the value extraction process using more accurate financial data via business analytical tools to help investors and portfolio managers develop more modern financial planning processes. Covering topics such as financial markets, investment analysis, and statistical tools, this book is ideal for accountants, data analysts, researchers, students, business professionals, academicians, and more.