Perfunctory efforts to show investment in a business relationship-detailed in so many books about global work and cultural intelligence-don't cut it anymore. Business professionals working across national and cultural boundaries need to form authentic relationships that drive rapport, camaraderie, and optimal team performance-and Forging Bonds in a Global Workforce provides the most thorough and practical approach to date on this issue. Renowned academics...

Your company relies on data to succeed—data that traditionally comes from a business's transactional processes, pulled from the transaction systems through an extract-transform-load (ETL) process into a warehouse for reporting purposes. But this data flow is no longer sufficient given the growth of the internet of things (IOT), web commerce, and cybersecurity. How can your company keep up with today's increasing magnitude of data and insights?...

"Join practitioners from a range of industries to learn how they're putting new tools and massive data sets to work. We'll hear how music, geophysics, and the legal system are all changing by putting huge, rich information into the hands of business."--Resource description page.

Written in a cookbook style, this book will teach you through the use of recipes with examples and illustrations. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions about everything necessary to execute a particular task. This book is intended for both BI and database developers who want to expand their knowledge of MicroStrategy. It is also useful for advanced data analysts who are evaluating different technologies. You do not need to be an SQL master...

Data has been a missing part of most academic curriculums for a long time, and we're all being affected. During challenging times, creating a data-informed culture can help you pivot quickly or prevent expensive missteps. Developing a data curious organization will take advantage of the burgeoning data resources available as a result of increasing digitalization. With this book, author Carl Allchin shows today's business professionals how to become...

Reveals how to build rich BI reports with just a few clicks using Crescent, Microsoft's newest BI tool

• Technical review by Microsoft's Crescent team and Foreword by Group Program Manager for Crescent
• Complete, practical examples are immediately usable to readers in a commercial environment
• CD-ROM contains 30+ reusable reports, all code samples, and supporting animations that walk thru each example

Many organizations fail to make good decisions about their data monetization strategies because their leaders lack a shared understanding of how to discuss them. This confusion can impede efforts to derive more value from the company's data assets through improvements or innovation. This article shares a simple, practical matrix approach that can help remove friction from discussions about monetizing data and identify areas of business opportunity,...