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Big Data Revolution is a guide to improving performance, making better decisions, and transforming business through the effective use of big data. Listeners are guided through tried-and-true methodologies for getting more out of data and using it to the utmost advantage. This audiobook describes the major trends emerging in the field, the pitfalls and triumphs being experienced, and the many considerations surrounding big data, all while guiding listeners toward better decision-making from the perspective of a data scientist.

Struggling? Juggling? Drowning? Argh! These experiences of being overwhelmed can be a common part of a normal day or week in our life. Yes, the world can be an overwhelming place. We might have an emotional experience of being overwhelmed. We can experience the "too much" workload - too much to do and not enough time in which to do it.

L'ère de l'économie industrielle est révolue : place à l'économie de l'information, une économie "nouvelle" régie par des règles propres et des business modèles basés sur la disparition des intermédiaires et le règne de l'information en temps réel. L'auteur propose ici une lecture du nouveau damier stratégique en place dans l'économie internationale, montrant ainsi le glissement opéré en quelques années seulement entre une économie du "camion" et une économie du "photon".

What is your digital business model? While many leaders of companies recognize the threat from digital - and the potential opportunity - they lack a common language or a compelling framework to help them assess it and, more importantly, to direct them. They don't know how to think about their digital business model. In this probing and practical book, Peter Weill and Stephanie Woerner provide much-needed tools, self-assessments, motivating examples, and key financial analyses of where the profits will likely be made.

Data is everywhere, coming at us in a never-ceasing, ever-rising river that threatens to overwhelm us. Igor Tulchinsky, the trader behind global quantitative investment management firm WorldQuant, reveals, how natural patterns underlie data patterns that may dictate life or death, success, or failure. This book demonstrates how to exercise real intelligence by discerning the patterns that surround us every day and how to leverage this information into success in the workplace and beyond.

Distinguished author Dr. Charles R. Chaffin delivers a fun and evidence-based exploration of how you can devote more attention on what you believe is important while ignoring the distractions that increasingly permeate your life. Using research from cognitive, education, positive, and clinical psychology, the book identifies the sources of noise and distraction in this information age and how we can manage it in all aspects of our lives.

With an exclusive toolkit of forms and worksheets, this essential guide offers an entire roadmap to the business selling process, so you can plan your exit and sell when ready. Learn the entire process, from methods of business valuation and choosing the best exit option, to attracting buyer, protecting confidentiality, and finally negotiating a successful sale.

How is society being reshaped by the continued diffusion and increasing centrality of the internet in everyday life and work? Society and the Internet provides key information for students, scholars, and those interested in understanding the interactions of the Internet and society. This multidisciplinary collection of theoretically and empirically anchored chapters addresses the big questions about one of the most significant technological transformations of this century, through a diversity of data, methods, theories, and approaches.

This groundbreaking guide delivers the practical insights and strategies you need to build a positive relationship with information and excel at work and in all your ventures. Ross Dawson draws on his work as a leading futurist and twenty-five years of research into the practices that transform a surplus of information into compelling value. In Thriving on Overload, he shares simple actionable techniques for staying ahead in an accelerating world. It's all about choosing to thrive on overload—rather than being overwhelmed by it.

We are facing a future of unbounded complexity. Whether that complexity is harnessed to build a world that is safe, pleasant, humane and profitable, or whether it causes us to careen off a cliff into an abyss of mind-numbing junk is an open question. The challenges and opportunities - technical, business, and human - that this technological sea change will bring are without precedent. Entire industries will be born and others will be laid to ruin as our society navigates this journey.

COVID-19 has caused fundamental shifts in attitudes around remote and office work. And in The New Normal in IT: How the Global Pandemic Changed Information Technology Forever, internationally renowned IT executive Gregory S. Smith explains how and why companies today are shedding corporate office locations and reducing office footprints.

This groundbreaking audiobook reveals how different kinds of information overload impact workers and businesses as a whole. It helps businesses get a grip on the financial and human costs of email overload and interruptions and details how working in an information-overloaded environment impacts employee productivity, efficiency, and morale.

In Brand Currency, former Amazon Advertising executive creative director Steve Susi takes you inside the corporate enigma to reveal the four currencies that dictate the customer’s and Amazon’s every move: money, information, loyalty, and time. Steve offers firsthand experience and case studies from across the brandscape to prove that prioritizing these currencies is exactly what your brand needs to break through, maximize its potential, and leave everyone asking, “How do they do it?”

Do you find each and every day is incredibly rewarding and fulfilling on an emotional and spiritual level? Do you want to organize your goals and make your dreams come true? If you answered "yes" to any of these, then this is the perfect, educational, and informational audiobook for you! You need to be able to identify the areas of your life that you're not 100 percent satisfied with and then make concrete plans to help you change them. It's about knowing what you want and knowing how to get it.

Many companies automatically assume that they have to hire an accountant to be capable of getting their business to the idea that they need it nevertheless, you won't need to hire an accountant. You merely should try to learn the fundamentals of accounting and you'll be in a position to be the financial expert of your business.

Multiply your information publishing profits by repurposing your content and adding creative offers. Earn more from your expertise and your content. Discover profitable new ways to present what you know or have sitting in your file cabinets. Shape-shift your material, deliver it in a creative fashion, rework it for a different audience, raise the perceived value (and the price!) and add meaningful, easy-to-produce items to your product line.

Do you have a published book you want to convert for sale on Kindle or ideas for a series of Kindle originals? Whether you write fiction or nonfiction, discover all the angles for success on Kindle and the other ebook marketplaces (Nook, iBookstore, Kobo, etc.). Enjoy an ever-growing stream of additional income, new readers around the world, a fresh credential as an author, and a second life for content you already have on hand. Learn from someone with a deep background in traditional publishing, marketing, and entrepreneurship.

Without question, IT consultancy is one of the smartest jobs for the money, time, and flexibility it allows. For this reason, people qualified and yet to be qualified aspire to enter the IT consulting space. It then becomes a question of what is required, how to set up, get clients, and dominate competition. How to Start and Run IT Consultancy Business provides you with proven answers to these how's as well as the educational requirements, and the financial outlay for starting an IT firm.

Never underestimate the impression you may make on others; remember just how much difference one person can make in someone's life.

Integrating and managing the services of multiple third-party IT service providers is becoming increasingly popular, but there is no formal best-practice guidance for service integration and management (SIAM). This book provides clear guidance on the SIAM process, answering questions on what service integration is, when SIAM is applicable, and what approach should be taken when sourcing ITSM services in a multi-sourced environment.