Apply a powerful new approach and method that ensures continuous performance improvement for
your business. You will learn how to determine and value the people process and
technology-based solutions that will optimize your organization's data-to-learning-to-action
processes. This book describes in detail how to holistically optimize the chain of activities
that span from data to learning to decisions to actions an imperative for achieving
outstanding performance in today's business environment. Adapting and integrating insights from
decision science constraint theory and process improvement the book provides a method that
is clear effective and can be applied to nearly every business function and sector. You will
learn how to systematically work backwards from decisions to data estimate the flow of value
along the chain and identify the inevitable value bottlenecks. And importantly you will
learn techniques for quantifying the value that can be attained by successfully addressing the
bottlenecks providing the credible support needed to make the right level of investments at
the right place and at just the right time. In today's dynamic environment with its
never-ending stream of new disruptive technologies that executives must consider (e.g. cloud
computing Internet of Things AI machine learning business intelligence enterprise social
etc. along with the associated big data generated) author Steven Flinn provides the
comprehensive approach that is needed for making effective decisions about these technologies
underpinned by credibly quantified value. What You'll Learn Understand
data-to-learning-to-action processes and their fundamental elements Discover the highest
leverage data-to-learning-to-action processes in your organization Identify the key decisions
that are associated with a data-to-learning-to-action process Know why it's NOT all about data
but it IS all about decisions and learning Determine the value upside of enhanced learning that
can improve decisions Work backwards from the decisions to determine the value constraints in
data-to-learning-to-action processes Evaluate people process and technology-based solution
options to address the constraints Quantify the expected value of each of the solution options
and prioritize accordingly Implement measure and continuously improve by addressing the next
constraints on value Who This Book Is For Business executives and managers seeking the next
level of organizational performance knowledge workers who want to maximize their impact
technology managers and practitioners who require a more effective means to prioritize
technology options and deployments technology providers who need a way to credibly quantify
the value of their offerings and consultants who are ready to build practices around the next
big business performance paradigm
