The Sentient Enterprise: The Evolution of Business Decision Making

by Oliver Ratzesberger, Mohanbir Sawhney, Thomas H. Davenport (Foreword)

Mohan and Oliver have been very fortunate to have intimate views into the data challenges that face the largest organizations and institutions across every possible industry―and what they have been hearing about for some time is how the business needs to use data and analytics to their advantage. They continually hear the same issues, such as: To really address the data concerns of today's enterprise, they wanted to find a way to help enterprises achieve the success they seek. Not as a prescriptive process―but a methodology to become agile and leverage data and analytics to drive a competitive advantage. You know, it's amazing what can happen when two people with very different perspectives get together to solve a big problem. This evolutionary guide resulted from the a-ha moment between these two influencers at the top of their fields―one, an academic researcher and consultant, and the other, a longtime analytics practitioner and chief product officer at Teradata. Together, they created a powerful framework every type of business can use to connect analytic power, business practices, and human dynamics in ways that can transform what is currently possible.

176 pages, Hardcover

First published September 18, 2017

Reviews

[Jessica Duckworth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book for anyone making enterprise level decisions and is thinking business will look like in the future. Businesses must become more agile, democratize access to data, and skill up employees to compete in the future. Read if you are in corporate management, IT or data analytics.

[Bj_sojourner · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very conceptual but inspiring. The successful stories from the industrial use cases with much end result data are not convincing enough.

[Dora Muñoz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great business book. A new way to understand the data analytic business.