A review by statman
Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning by Thomas H. Davenport

4.0

This is not the kind of book that you read for fun. I read it for work reasons because I've been doing more work related to analytics and how to improve business decisions based on better data. So I found this to be an extremely useful book for what I do at work in helping me to think outside of just statistical methods. The premise is that it takes a lot of different skills: computer science, statistics, business understanding, communication skills to really be able to be an analytical company. As a result, I found that this book broadened my horizons on what is possible and the future. It does not have much detail on how to actually do analytics as it focuses more on a high level view of what analytics are and how they can be of benefit.