The Sentient Enterprise : The Evolution of Business Decision Making.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Reimagining the Enterprise -- Disruption and Decision Making -- Self-Disruption at Cisco: On Purpose and at Scale -- Self-Disrupt in Sustainable Ways -- Analytic Pain Points and a Self-Service Revolution -- Access and Control -- A Necessary Evolution -- Putting It All Together -- Chapter 2 Leveraging an Expanding Universe of Data -- A Universe of Data: Expanding Exponentially with New Sources -- Game-Changing Capabilities -- Well-Intentioned Anarchy -- Data Marts and Their Discontents -- A Solution? "LinkedIn for Analytics" -- Getting Back to eBay: Fulfilling the Analytics Mandate -- Chapter 3 The Agile Data Platform -- Retaining Agility at Scale -- Rethinking Waterfall Methodologies -- Agile Analytics -- Spreading Agility Company-Wide with the Virtual Data Mart -- A Virtual Data Mart (by Any Other Name) in Action -- Time Boxing -- Fewer Requirements, More Prototypes -- Analytics on Analytics -- Making It Real with the Layered Data Architecture -- Driving Change in the Auto Industry -- Remembering the Big Picture -- Chapter 4 The Behavioral Data Platform -- Personalized-If Not Personal-Interaction -- New Measures for Success, Built on Behavioral Data -- Leveraging Behavioral Data for Real-World Business Challenges -- Behavioral Data Is Everywhere -- Agile Systems for Behavioral Data -- Back Inside the Layered Data Architecture -- Reaping Value and Insight -- Proactive Data Standards and Designing for the Unknown -- Chapter 5 The Collaborative Ideation Platform -- Avoiding "Anti-Social" Analytics -- The Problem of Metadata at Scale -- Collaboration and Context at Scale -- Merchandising Analytic Insights -- Staying on the Path to Value through Analytics on Analytics -- Adoption Takes Time -- Operationalizing Insights.

Chapter 6 The Analytical Application Platform -- Turning Analytic Insight into Action Across the Organization -- Lessons from the Cloud -- Creating an App Economy for the Enterprise -- DevOps to Make It Real -- Less ETL . . . -- . . . More "Data Listening" -- Setup for Sentience -- Chapter 7 The Autonomous Decisioning Platform -- Fast-Changing Capabilities -- Self-Driving Cars … and Companies -- "System of Systems" Building Blocks for Sentience -- Algorithms: A Must-Have for Autonomous Decisioning -- Strategically Applying Algorithmic Intelligence in the Enterprise -- Algorithmic "Magic" -- Analytics on Algorithms to Improve Decision Making -- Combining Algorithms on the Home Stretch to Sentience -- Agility as the Ultimate Litmus Test -- Chapter 8 Implementing Your Course to Sentience -- Ask the Right Questions, Warts and All -- Agile Strategic Planning Is Not an Oxymoron -- Adopt a Start-Up Mind-Set and Don't Boil the Ocean -- Pick the Right Internal Partners to Demonstrate Value -- Embrace Agile Project Management Strategies -- Embrace Concurrency, Ensure Scalability -- Design in Governance That's Seamless and Repeatable -- Optimize a Workforce to Act Fast, Fail Fast, and Scale Fast -- "It's the Culture, Stupid" -- Conclusion -- The Ergonomics of Data: Redefining Human-Data Interaction -- Society-Wide System of Systems Adoption -- The Greater Good -- Looking to the Future -- A Final Word -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Index -- EULA.

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