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Customer Data Integration
Reaching a Single Version of the Truth
by Jill Dyché
Part 7 of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Whatever business you're in, you're ultimately in the customer business. No matter what your product, customers pay the bills. But the strategic importance of customer relationships hasn't brought companies much closer to a single, authoritative view of their customers. Written from both business and technical perspectives, Customer Data Integration shows companies how to deliver an accurate, holistic, and long-term understanding of their customers through CDI.
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Enterprise Risk Management
A Methodology for Achieving Strategic Objectives
by Gregory Monahan
Part 20 of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Written for enterprise risk management (ERM) practitioners who recognize ERM’s value to their organization, “Enterprise Risk Management: A Methodology for Achieving Strategic Objectives” thoroughly examines operational risk management and allows you to leverage ERM methodology in your organization by putting author and ERM authority Gregory Monahan's Strategic Objectives At Risk (SOAR) methodology to work. A must-read for anyone interested in risk management as a strategic, value-adding tool, this no-nonsense book shows you how to use ERM and SOAR to empower your company to go from stuck to competitive.
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Performance Management
Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics
by Gary Cokins
Part 21 of the Wiley and SAS Business series
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Credit Risk Assessment
The New Lending System for Borrowers, Lenders, and Investors
by Clark R. Abrahams
Part 22 of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Credit derivatives as a financial tool has been growing exponentially from almost nothing more than seven years ago to approximately US$5 trillion deals completed by end of 2005. This indicates the growing importance of credit derivatives in the financial sector and how widely it is being used these days by banks globally. It is also being increasingly used as a device of synthetic securitisation. This significant market trend underscores the need for a book of such a nature.
Kothari, an undisputed expert in credit derivatives, explains the subject matter using easy-to-understand terms, presents it in a logical structure, demystifies the technical jargons and blends them into a cohesive whole.
This revised book will also include the following:
-New credit derivative definitions
-New features of the synthetic CDO market
-Case studies of leading transactions of synethetic securitisations
-Basle II rules-The Consultative Paper 3 has significantly revised the rules, particularly on synthetic CDOs
-Additional inputs on legal issues
-New clarifications on accounting for credit derivatives/credit linked notes
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The New Know
Innovation Powered by Analytics
by Thornton May
Part 23 of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Learn to manage and grow successful analytical teams within your business
Examining analytics-one of the hottest business topics today-The New KNOW argues that analytics is needed by all enterprises in order to be successful. Until now, enterprises have been required to know what happened in the past, but in today's environment, your organization is expected to have a good knowledge of what happens next.
This innovative book covers
• Where analytics live in the enterprise
• The value of analytics
• Relationships betwixt and between
• Technologies of analytics
• Markets and marketers of analytics
The New KNOW is a timely, essential resource to staying competitive in your field.
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The Data Asset
How Smart Companies Govern Their Data for Business Success
by Tony Fisher
Part 24 of the Wiley and SAS Business series
An expert's insider secrets to how successful CEOs and directors shape, lead, and oversee their organizations to achieve corporate goals.
“Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance” shows senior executives and board members how to ensure that their companies incorporate the necessary processes, organization, and technology to accomplish strategic goals. Examining how and why some major companies failed while others continue to grow and prosper, author and internationally recognized expert Richard Steinberg reveals how to cultivate a culture, leadership process and infrastructure toward achieving business objectives and related growth, profit, and return goals.
• Explains critical factors that make compliance and ethics programs and risk management processes really work
• Explores the board's role in overseeing corporate strategy, risk management, CEO compensation, succession planning, crisis planning, performance measures, board composition, and shareholder communications
• Highlights for CEOs, senior management teams, and board members the pitfalls to avoid and what must go right for success
• Outlines the future of corporate governance and what's needed for continued effectiveness
• Written by well-known corporate governance and risk management expert Richard Steinberg
“Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance” lays a sound foundation and provides critical insights for understanding the role of governance, risk management, and compliance and its successful implementation in today's business environment.
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Bank Fraud
Using Technology to Combat Losses
by Revathi Subramanian
Part 25 of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Learn how advances in technology can help curb bank fraud
Fraud prevention specialists are grappling with ever-mounting quantities of data, but in today's volatile commercial environment, paying attention to that data is more important than ever. Bank Fraud provides a frank discussion of the attitudes, strategies, and most importantly, the technology that specialists will need to combat fraud.
Fraudulent activity may have increased over the years, but so has the field of data science and the results that can be achieved by applying the right principles, a necessary tool today for financial institutions to protect themselves and their clientele. This resource helps professionals in the financial services industry make the most of data intelligence and uncovers the applicable methods to strengthening defenses against fraudulent behavior. This in-depth treatment of the topic begins with a brief history of fraud detection in banking and definitions of key terms, then discusses the benefits of technology, data sharing, and analysis, along with other in-depth information, including:
• The challenges of fraud detection in a financial services environment
• The use of statistics, including effective ways to measure losses per account and ROI by product/initiative
• The Ten Commandments for tackling fraud and ways to build an effective model for fraud management
“Bank Fraud” offers a compelling narrative that ultimately urges security and fraud prevention professionals to make the most of the data they have so painstakingly gathered. Such professionals shouldn't let their most important intellectual asset-data-go to waste. This book shows you just how to leverage data and the most up-to-date tools, technologies, and methods to thwart fraud at every turn.
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Mastering Organizational Knowledge Flow
How to Make Knowledge Sharing Work
by Frank Leistner
Part 26 of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Get your organization's expertise out of its silos and make it flow-with lessons from over a decade of experience
Looking at knowledge management in a holistic way, Mastering Organizational Knowledge Flow: How to Make Knowledge Sharing Work puts the proper emphasis on non-technical issues. As knowledge is deeply connected to humans, the author moves away from the often overused and therefore burned-out term "knowledge management" to the better-suited term "knowledge flow management."
• Provides lessons learned and case studies from real experience
• Discusses key knowledge flow components, success factors and traps, and where to start
Covering topics such as the power of scaling, internal marketing, measuring success, cultural aspects of sharing, and the role of Web2.0, Mastering Organizational Knowledge Flow: How to Make Knowledge Sharing Work allows you to stay up-to-date with today's knowledge flow management, and implement best practices to position your organization to take advantage of all of its assets.
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The Business Forecasting Deal
Exposing Myths, Eliminating Bad Practices, Providing Practical Solutions
by Michael Gilliland
Part 27 of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Practical-nontechnical-solutions to the problems of business forecasting
Written in a nontechnical style, this book provides practical solutions to common business forecasting problems, showing you how to think about business forecasting in the context of uncertainty, randomness and process performance.
• Addresses the philosophical foundations of forecasting
• Raises awareness of fundamental issues usually overlooked in pursuit of the perfect forecast
• Introduces a new way to think about business forecasting, focusing on process efficiency and the elimination of worst practices
• Provides practical approaches for the non-statistical problems forecasters face
• Illustrates Forecast Value Added (FVA) Analysis for identifying waste in the forecasting process
Couched in the context of uncertainty, randomness, and process performance, this book offers new, innovative ideas for resolving your business forecasting problems.
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CIO Best Practices
Enabling Strategic Value With Information Technology
by Gary Cokins
Part 34 of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Violence between children is a controversial and frequently misunderstood issue, one that has seen media-fuelled moral panic come to dominate public perceptions and debate. “Children Behaving Badly?” presents a powerful challenge to commonly held beliefs about peer violence and portrays it as an important child welfare concern.
By gathering together the most updated international research and expert commentary on peer violence issues from across the childhood spectrum, this volume directly addresses the complexity of this troubling issue from a range of multidisciplinary disciplines and perspectives. Contributions throughout the text reveal how childhood is not a homogenous experience but fragmented by gender, ethnicity, sexuality and poverty, which are each addressed within specific chapters. Other issues explored include pre-school children and peer violence, bullying, youth gangs, knife crime, teenage partner violence, sibling abuse, homophobia, international media depictions of violent youth, and implications for professionals working with children and young people.
Throughout the text, new and original research insights are presented with the goal of providing the reader with a greater understanding of the safeguarding of children and young people from this form of violence. “Children Behaving Badly?” is essential reading for policy makers, researchers, students, and practitioners from a wide range of child welfare disciplines about a highly topical and complex social problem.
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Social Network Analysis in Telecommunications
by Carlos Andre Reis Pinheiro
Part 37 of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Modern portfolio theory (MPT), which originated with Harry Markowitz's seminal paper "Portfolio Selection" in 1952, has stood the test of time and continues to be the intellectual foundation for real-world portfolio management. This book presents a comprehensive picture of MPT in a manner that can be effectively used by financial practitioners and understood by students.
“Modern Portfolio Theory” provides a summary of the important findings from all of the financial research done since MPT was created and presents all the MPT formulas and models using one consistent set of mathematical symbols. Opening with an informative introduction to the concepts of probability and utility theory, it quickly moves on to discuss Markowitz's seminal work on the topic with a thorough explanation of the underlying mathematics.
• Analyzes portfolios of all sizes and types, shows how the advanced findings and formulas are derived, and offers a concise and comprehensive review of MPT literature
• Addresses logical extensions to Markowitz's work, including the Capital Asset Pricing Model, Arbitrage Pricing Theory, portfolio ranking models, and performance attribution
• Considers stock market developments like decimalization, high frequency trading, and algorithmic trading, and reveals how they align with MPT
• Companion Website contains Excel spreadsheets that allow you to compute and graph Markowitz efficient frontiers with riskless and risky assets
If you want to gain a complete understanding of modern portfolio theory this is the book you need to read.
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Branded!
How Retailers Engage Consumers with Social Media and Mobility
by Bernie Brennan
Part 39 of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Written through the eyes of retail and technology executives, Branded! explores retailers who are successfully implementing social media and mobility strategies.
Market-leading retailers are engaging technology-savvy customers though social media and mobility. Branded! reveals how these digital communication channels are an extension of a retailer's culture and strategy resulting in building brand equity. Comprehensive reviews of Starbucks, Zappos, Wet Seal, Macy's, 1-800-Flowers.com, JCPenney, Pizza Hut and Best Buy are featured. Branded!:
• Provides a clear review of social media as well as the rapid changes in the development and use of mobility.
• Demonstrates why retailers cannot 'wait and see', and must move rapidly
• Shows how each company's social media and mobility initiatives are based on the individual personality of the company.
• Discusses sophisticated analytic tools that enable retailers to measure their performance and make informed decisions on the data.
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The Executive's Guide to Enterprise Social Media Strategy
How Social Networks Are Radically Transforming Your Business
by Mike Barlow
Part 42 of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Social media has already transformed society. Now it is poised to revolutionize communications and collaborative business processes. This book provides you with an actionable framework for developing and executing successful enterprise social networking strategies. Using straightforward language, accompanied by exhibits and fleshed out with real-world stories and revealing anecdotes, you will learn how to develop your own internal corporate social media strategy. Through the use of in-depth interviews with leading companies using these strategies, you will also discover best practices that will propel your business to new heights.
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The Value of Business Analytics
Identifying the Path to Profitability
by Evan Stubbs
Part 43 of the Wiley and SAS Business series
TURN YOUR CHALLENGES INTO SUCCESSES — LEARN HOW AND WHY SOME TEAM STRUGGLE AND SOME SUCCEED
This groundbreaking resource defines what business analytics is, the immense value it brings to an organization, and how to harness its power to gain a competitive edge in the marketplace. Author Evan Stubbs provides managers with the tools, knowledge, and strategies to get the organizational commitment you need to get business analytics up and running in your company.
Drawing from numerous practical examples, “The Value of Business Analytics” provides an overview of how business analytics maps to organizational strategy and through examining the mistakes teams commonly make that prevent their success, author Evan Stubbs uncovers a four-step framework which helps improve the odds of success.
Built on field-tested experience, The Value of Business Analytics explains the importance of and how to:
• Define the Value: Link analytics outcomes to business value, thereby helping build a sense of urgency and a need for change.
• Communicate the Value: Persuade the right people by understanding what motivates them.
• Deliver the Value: Link tactical outcomes to long-term strategic differentiation.
• Measure the Value: Validate wins and deliver continuous improvement to help drive ongoing transformation.
Translating massive amounts of data into real insight is beyond magic, it's competitive advantage distilled. Nothing else offers an equivalent level of agility, productivity improvement, or renewable value. Whether you're looking to quantify the value of your work or generate organizational support, learn how to leverage advanced business analytics with the hands-on guidance found in “The Value of Business Analytics”.
Drawing on the successes and failures of countless organizations, author Evan Stubbs provides a reference rich in content that spans everything from hiring the right people, understanding technical maturity, assessing culture, and structuring strategic planning. A must-read for any business analytics leader and an essential reference in shifting the perspective of business analytics away from algorithms towards outcomes.
Learn how to increase the odds of successful value creation with The Value of Business Analytics.
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Retail Analytics
The Secret Weapon
by Emmett Cox
Part 45 of the Wiley and SAS Business series
The inside scoop on boosting sales through spot-on analytics
Retailers collect a huge amount of data, but don't know what to do with it. Retail Analytics not only provides a broad understanding of retail, but also shows how to put accumulated data to optimal use. Each chapter covers a different focus of the retail environment, from retail basics and organization structures to common retail database designs. Packed with case studies and examples, this book insightfully reveals how you can begin using your business data as a strategic advantage.
• Helps retailers and analysts to use analytics to sell more merchandise
• Provides fact-based analytic strategies that can be replicated with the same success the author achieved on a global level
• Reveals how retailers can begin using their data as a strategic advantage
• Includes examples from many retail departments illustrating successful use of data and analytics
Analytics is the wave of the future. Put your data to strategic use with the proven guidance found in Retail Analytics.
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Delivering Business Analytics
Practical Guidelines for Best Practice
by Evan Stubbs
Part 52 of the Wiley and SAS Business series
AVOID THE MISTAKES THAT OTHERS MAKE — LEARN WHAT LEADS TO BEST PRACTICE AND KICKSTART SUCCESS
This groundbreaking resource provides comprehensive coverage across all aspects of business analytics, presenting proven management guidelines to drive sustainable differentiation. Through a rich set of case studies, author Evan Stubbs reviews solutions and examples to over twenty common problems spanning managing analytics assets and information, leveraging technology, nurturing skills, and defining processes.
“Delivering Business Analytics” also outlines the Data Scientist's Code, fifteen principles that when followed ensure constant movement towards effective practice. Practical advice is offered for addressing various analytics issues, the advantages and disadvantages of each issue's solution, and how these solutions can optimally create organizational value.
With an emphasis on real-world examples and pragmatic advice throughout, Delivering Business Analytics provides a reference guide on:
• The economic principles behind how business analytics leads to competitive differentiation
• The elements which define best practice
• The Data Scientist's Code, fifteen management principles that when followed help teams move towards best practice
• Practical solutions and frequent missteps to twenty-four common problems across people and process, systems and assets, and data and decision-making
Drawing on the successes and failures of countless organizations, author Evan Stubbs provides a densely packed practical reference on how to increase the odds of success in designing business analytics systems and managing teams of data scientists.
Uncover what constitutes best practice in business analytics and start achieving it with “Delivering Business Analytics”.
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Taming the Big Data Tidal Wave
Finding Opportunities in Huge Data Streams with Advanced Analytics
by Bill Franks
Part 56 of the Wiley and SAS Business series
You receive an e-mail. It contains an offer for a complete personal computer system. It seems like the retailer read your mind since you were exploring computers on their web site just a few hours prior....
As you drive to the store to buy the computer bundle, you get an offer for a discounted coffee from the coffee shop you are getting ready to drive past. It says that since you're in the area, you can get 10% off if you stop by in the next 20 minutes....
As you drink your coffee, you receive an apology from the manufacturer of a product that you complained about yesterday on your Facebook page, as well as on the company's web site....
Finally, once you get back home, you receive notice of a special armor upgrade available for purchase in your favorite online video game. It is just what is needed to get past some spots you've been struggling with....
Sound crazy? Are these things that can only happen in the distant future? No. All of these scenarios are possible today! Big data. Advanced analytics. Big data analytics. It seems you can't escape such terms today. Everywhere you turn people are discussing, writing about, and promoting big data and advanced analytics. Well, you can now add this book to the discussion.
What is real and what is hype? Such attention can lead one to the suspicion that perhaps the analysis of big data is something that is more hype than substance. While there has been a lot of hype over the past few years, the reality is that we are in a transformative era in terms of analytic capabilities and the leveraging of massive amounts of data. If you take the time to cut through the sometimes-over-zealous hype present in the media, you'll find something very real and very powerful underneath it. With big data, the hype is driven by genuine excitement and anticipation of the business and consumer benefits that analyzing it will yield over time.
Big data is the next wave of new data sources that will drive the next wave of analytic innovation in business, government, and academia. These innovations have the potential to radically change how organizations view their business. The analysis that big data enables will lead to decisions that are more informed and, in some cases, different from what they are today. It will yield insights that many can only dream about today. As you'll see, there are many consistencies with the requirements to tame big data and what has always been needed to tame new data sources. However, the additional scale of big data necessitates utilizing the newest tools, technologies, methods, and processes. The old way of approaching analysis just won't work. It is time to evolve the world of advanced analytics to the next level. That's what this book is about.
“Taming the Big Data Tidal Wave” isn't just the title of this book, but rather an activity that will determine which businesses win and which lose in the next decade. By preparing and taking the initiative, organizations can ride the big data tidal wave to success rather than being pummeled underneath the crushing surf. What do you need to know and how do you prepare in order to start taming big data and generating exciting new analytics from it? Sit back, get comfortable, and prepare to find out!
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Health Analytics
Gaining the Insights to Transform Health Care
by Jason Burke
Part 71 of the Wiley and SAS Business series
A hands-on, analytics road map for health industry leaders
The industry-wide transformation taking place across the health and life sciences ecosystem is mandating that organizations adopt new decision-making capabilities, based on science and real-world information. Analytics will be a required competency for the modern health enterprise, this book is about how to "cross the chasm." The ultimate analytics guide for the health industry leader, this essential book equips business leaders with little-to-no experience in analytics to understand how to incorporate analytics as a cornerstone of their 21st century competitive business strategy.
• Paints the picture for a new health enterprise, one focused on the patient
• Explores the financial components of this new operating model, using analytics to optimize the tradeoffs between cost and value
• Deals with the rising role of the consumer, using analytics to create a completely new health engagement model with individual recipients of care
• Looks at how analytics can drive innovations in care practice, patient-experienced medical outcomes, and analytically driven novel therapies optimized for the individual patient
• Presents a variety of text, tables, and graphics illustrating the various concepts being described
Within each section and chapter, Health Analytics assesses the current landscape, proposing a new model/concept, sharing real-world stories of how the old and new world come together, and framing a "how-to" for the reader in terms of growing that particular set of capabilities in their own enterprises.
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Profit From Your Forecasting Software
A Best Practice Guide for Sales Forecasters
by Paul Goodwin
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Go beyond technique to master the difficult judgement calls of forecasting
A variety of software can be used effectively to achieve accurate forecasting, but no software can replace the essential human component. You may be new to forecasting, or you may have mastered the statistical theory behind the software's predictions, and even more advanced "power user" techniques for the software itself-but your forecasts will never reach peak accuracy unless you master the complex judgement calls that the software cannot make. “Profit From Your Forecasting Software” addresses the issues that arise regularly and shows you how to make the correct decisions to get the most out of your software.
Taking a non-mathematical approach to the various forecasting models, the discussion covers common everyday decisions such as model choice, forecast adjustment, product hierarchies, safety stock levels, model fit, testing, and much more. Clear explanations help you better understand seasonal indices, smoothing coefficients, mean absolute percentage error, and r-squared, and an exploration of psychological biases provides insight into the decision to override the software's forecast. With a focus on choice, interpretation, and judgement, this book goes beyond the technical manuals to help you truly grasp the more intangible skills that lead to better accuracy.
• Explore the advantages and disadvantages of alternative forecasting methods in different situations
• Master the interpretation and evaluation of your software's output
• Learn the subconscious biases that could affect your judgement toward intervention
• Find expert guidance on testing, planning, and configuration to help you get the most out of your software
Relevant to sales forecasters, demand planners, and analysts across industries, “Profit From Your Forecasting Software” is the much sought-after "missing piece" in forecasting reference.
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Hotel Pricing in a Social World
Driving Value in the Digital Economy
by Kelly A. Mcguire
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Supercharge options analytics and hedging using the power of Python.
“Derivatives Analytics with Python” shows you how to implement market-consistent valuation and hedging approaches using advanced financial models, efficient numerical techniques, and the powerful capabilities of the Python programming language. This unique guide offers detailed explanations of all theory, methods, and processes, giving you the background and tools necessary to value stock index options from a sound foundation. You'll find and use self-contained Python scripts and modules and learn how to apply Python to advanced data and derivatives analytics as you benefit from the 5,000+ lines of code that are provided to help you reproduce the results and graphics presented. Coverage includes market data analysis, risk-neutral valuation, Monte Carlo simulation, model calibration, valuation, and dynamic hedging, with models that exhibit stochastic volatility, jump components, stochastic short rates, and more. The companion website features all code and IPython Notebooks for immediate execution and automation.
Python is gaining ground in the derivatives analytics space, allowing institutions to quickly and efficiently deliver portfolio, trading, and risk management results. This book is the finance professional's guide to exploiting Python's capabilities for efficient and performing derivatives analytics.
• Reproduce major stylized facts of equity and options markets yourself
• Apply Fourier transform techniques and advanced Monte Carlo pricing
• Calibrate advanced option pricing models to market data
• Integrate advanced models and numeric methods to dynamically hedge options
Recent developments in the Python ecosystem enable analysts to implement analytics tasks as performing as with C or C++, but using only about one-tenth of the code or even less. “Derivatives Analytics with Python-Data Analysis, Models, Simulation, Calibration and Hedging” shows you what you need to know to supercharge your derivatives and risk analytics efforts.
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Win With Advanced Business Analytics
Creating Business Value from Your Data
by Jean-Paul Isson
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Plain English guidance for strategic business analytics and big data implementation
In today's challenging economy, business analytics and big data have become more and more ubiquitous. While some businesses don't even know where to start, others are struggling to move from beyond basic reporting. In some instances, management and executives do not see the value of analytics or have a clear understanding of business analytics vision mandate and benefits. “Win with Advanced Analytics” focuses on integrating multiple types of intelligence, such as web analytics, customer feedback, competitive intelligence, customer behavior, and industry intelligence into your business practice.
• Provides the essential concept and framework to implement business analytics
• Written clearly for a nontechnical audience
• Filled with case studies across a variety of industries
• Uniquely focuses on integrating multiple types of big data intelligence into your business
Companies now operate on a global scale and are inundated with a large volume of data from multiple locations and sources: B2B data, B2C data, traffic data, transactional data, third party vendor data, macroeconomic data, etc. Packed with case studies from multiple countries across a variety of industries, “Win with Advanced Analytics” provides a comprehensive framework and applications of how to leverage business analytics/big data to outpace the competition.
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A Practical Guide to Analytics for Governments
Using Big Data for Good
by Various Authors
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
An up-to-date look at the evolution of interest rate swaps and derivatives.
“Interest Rate Swaps and Derivatives” bridges the gap between the theory of these instruments and their actual use in day-to-day life. This comprehensive guide covers the main "rates" products, including swaps, options (cap/floors, swaptions), CMS products, and Bermudan callables. It also covers the main valuation techniques for the exotics/structured-notes area, which remains one of the most challenging parts of the market.
• Provides a balance of relevant theory and real-world trading instruments for rate swaps and swap derivatives
• Uses simple settings and illustrations to reveal key results
• Written by an experienced trader who has worked with swaps, options, and exotics
With this book, author Amir Sadr shares his valuable insights with practitioners in the field of interest rate derivatives-from traders and marketers to those in operations.
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Financial Institution Advantage and the Optimization of Information Processing
by Sean C. Keenan
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
A PROVEN APPROACH FOR CREATING and IMPLEMENTING EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE for DATA and ANALYTICS
Financial Institution Advantage and the Optimization of Information Processing offers a key resource for understanding and implementing effective data governance practices and data modeling within financial organizations. Sean Keenan, a noted expert on the topic, outlines the strategic core competencies, includes best practices, and suggests a set of mechanisms for self-evaluation. He shows what it takes for an institution to evaluate its information processing capability and how to take the practical steps toward improving it.
Keenan outlines the strategies and tools needed for financial institutions to take charge and make the much-needed decisions to ensure that their firm's information processing assets are effectively designed, deployed, and utilized to meet the strict regulatory guidelines. This important resource is filled with practical observations about how information assets can be actively and effectively managed to create competitive advantage and improved financial results. “Financial Institution Advantage and the Optimization of Information Processing” also includes a survey of case studies that highlight both the positive and less positive results that have stemmed from institutions either recognizing or failing to recognize the strategic importance of information processing capabilities.
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Analytics in a Big Data World
The Essential Guide to Data Science and its Applications
by Bart Baesens
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
The guide to targeting and leveraging business opportunities using big data & analytics
By leveraging big data & analytics, businesses create the potential to better understand, manage, and strategically exploiting the complex dynamics of customer behavior. “Analytics in a Big Data World” reveals how to tap into the powerful tool of data analytics to create a strategic advantage and identify new business opportunities. Designed to be an accessible resource, this essential book does not include exhaustive coverage of all analytical techniques, instead focusing on analytics techniques that really provide added value in business environments.
The book draws on author Bart Baesens' expertise on the topics of big data, analytics and its applications in e.g., credit risk, marketing, and fraud to provide a clear roadmap for organizations that want to use data analytics to their advantage, but need a good starting point. Baesens has conducted extensive research on big data, analytics, customer relationship management, web analytics, fraud detection, and credit risk management, and uses this experience to bring clarity to a complex topic.
• Includes numerous case studies on risk management, fraud detection, customer relationship management, and web analytics
• Offers the results of research and the author's personal experience in banking, retail, and government
• Contains an overview of the visionary ideas and current developments on the strategic use of analytics for business
• Covers the topic of data analytics in easy-to-understand terms without an undo emphasis on mathematics and the minutiae of statistical analysis
For organizations looking to enhance their capabilities via data analytics, this resource is the go-to reference for leveraging data to enhance business capabilities.
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Big Data, Big Innovation
Enabling Competitive Differentiation through Business Analytics
by Evan Stubbs
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
A practical guide to leveraging your data to spur innovation and growth
Your business generates reams of data, but what do you do with it? Reporting is only the beginning. Your data holds the key to innovation and growth — you just need the proper analytics. In “Big Data, Big Innovation: Enabling Competitive Differentiation Through Business Analytics”, author Evan Stubbs explores the potential gold hiding in your un-mined data. As Chief Analytics Officer for SAS Australia/New Zealand, Stubbs brings an industry insider's perspective to guide you through pattern recognition, analysis, and implementation.
“Big Data, Big Innovation: Enabling Competitive Differentiation Through Business Analytics” details a groundbreaking approach to ensuring your company's upward trajectory. Use this guide to leverage your customer information, financial reports, performance metrics, and more to build a rock-solid foundation for future growth.
• Build an effective analytics team, and empower them with the right tools
• Learn how big data drives both evolutionary and revolutionary innovation, and who should be responsible
• Identify data collection and analysis opportunities and implement action plans
• Design the platform that suits your company's current and future needs
• Quantify performance with statistics, programming, and research for a more complete picture of operations
Effective management means combining data, people, and analytics to create a synergistic force for innovation and growth. If you want your company to move forward with confidence, “Big Data, Big Innovation: Enabling Competitive Differentiation Through Business Analytics” can show you how to use what you already have and acquire what you need to succeed.
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The Patient Revolution
How Big Data and Analytics Are Transforming the Health Care Experience
by Krisa Tailor
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
In the face of the current environmental crisis-which clearly has moral and spiritual dimensions-members of all the world's faiths have come to recognize the critical importance of religion's relationship to ecology. “The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Ecology” offers a comprehensive overview of the history and the latest developments in religious engagement with environmental issues throughout the world. Newly commissioned essays from noted scholars of diverse faiths and scientific traditions present the most cutting-edge thinking on religion's relationship to the environment. Initial readings explore the ways traditional concepts of nature in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and other religious traditions have been shaped by the environmental crisis. Readings then address the changing nature of theology and religious thought in response to the challenges of protecting the environment. Various conceptual issues and themes that transcend individual traditions-climate change, bio-ethics, social justice, ecofeminism, and more-are then analyzed before a final section examines some of the immediate challenges we face in caring for the Earth while looking to the future of religious environmentalism. Timely and thought-provoking, Companion to Religion and Ecology offers illuminating insights into the role of religion in the ongoing struggle to secure the future well-being of our natural world.
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Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment
Creating a More Efficient Supply Chain
by Robert A. Davis
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Remove built-in supply chain weak points to more effectively balance supply and demand
“Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment” shows how companies can support supply chain metrics and business initiatives by removing the weak points built into their inventory systems. Beginning with a thorough examination of Just in Time, Efficient Consumer Response, and Collaborative Forecasting, Planning, and Replenishment, this book walks you through the mathematical shortcuts set up in your management system that prevent you from attaining supply chain excellence. This expanded second edition includes new coverage of inventory performance, business verticals, business initiatives, and metrics, alongside case studies that illustrate how optimized inventory and replenishment delivers results across retail, high-tech, men's clothing, and food sectors.
Inventory optimization allows you to avoid out-of-stock situations without impacting the bottom line with excessive inventory maintenance. By keeping just the right amount of inventory on hand, your company is better able to meet demand without sacrificing the cost-effectiveness of other supply chain strategies. The trick, however, is determining "just the right amount", and this book provides the background and practical guidance you need to do just that.
• Examine the major supply chain strategies of the last 30 years
• Remove the shortcuts that prohibit supply chain excellence
• Optimize your supply/demand balance in any vertical
• Overcome systemic weaknesses to strengthen the bottom line
Inventory optimization is benefitting companies around the world, as exemplified here by case studies involving Matas, PWT, Wistron, and Amway. When inefficiencies are built into the system, it's only smart business to identify and remove them, and implement a new streamlined process that runs like a well-oiled machine. “Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment” is an essential resource for exceptional supply chain management.
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Next Generation Demand Management
People, Process, Analytics, and Technology
by Charles W. Chase
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
A practical framework for revenue-boosting supply chain management
Next Generation Demand Management is a guidebook to next generation Demand Management, with an implementation framework that improves revenue forecasts and enhances profitability. This proven approach is structured around the four key catalysts of an efficient planning strategy: people, processes, analytics, and technology. The discussion covers the changes in behavior, skills, and integrated processes that are required for proper implementation, as well as the descriptive and predictive analytics tools and skills that make the process sustainable. Corporate culture changes require a shift in leadership focus, and this guide describes the necessary "champion" with the authority to drive adoption and stress accountability while focusing on customer excellence. Real world examples with actual data illustrate important concepts alongside case studies highlighting best-in-class as well as startup approaches.
Reliable forecasts are the primary product of demand planning, a multi-step operational supply chain management process that is increasingly seen as a survival tactic in the changing marketplace. This book provides a practical framework for efficient implementation, and complete guidance toward the supplementary changes required to reap the full benefit.
• Learn the key principles of demand driven planning
• Implement new behaviors, skills, and processes
• Adopt scalable technology and analytics capabilities
• Align inventory with demand, and increase channel profitability
Whether your company is a large multinational or an early startup, your revenue predictions are only as strong as your supply chain management system. Implementing a proven, more structured process can be the catalyst your company needs to overcome that one lingering obstacle between forecast and goal. Next Generation Demand Management gives you the framework for building the foundation of your growth.
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Project Finance for Business Development
by John E. Triantis
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Raise the skill and competency level of project finance organizations
“Project Finance for Business Development” helps readers understand how to develop a competitive advantage through project finance. Most importantly, it shows how different elements of project finance, such as opportunity screening and evaluation, project development, risk management, and due diligence come together to structure viable and financeable projects, which are crucial pieces missing from the current literature.
Eliminating misconceptions about what is really important for successful project financings, this book shows you how to develop, structure, and implement projects successfully by creating competitive advantage. By shedding light on project finance failures, it also helps you avoid failures of your own.
• Offers a roadmap for successful financing, participant roles and responsibilities, and assessing and testing project viability
• Considers project finance from a broad business development and competitive advantage
• Provides a strategic decision-forecasting perspective
• Delves deeper than existing treatments of project finance into decisions needed to create and implement effective financing plans
Helping readers develop, structure, and implement projects successfully by creating competitive advantage, this book is a useful tool for project sponsors and developers, helping them structure and implement projects by creating competitive advantage.
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On-Camera Coach
Tools and Techniques for Business Professionals in a Video-Driven World
by Karin M. Reed
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
The helpful workbook to help practice assessing financial statements.
Financial statement analysis is essential as part of any well-organized financial portfolio. As a companion piece, “Financial Statement Analysis Workbook: A Practitioner's Guide” allows readers the opportunity to test and hone the skills put forward in Martin Fridson and Fernando Alvarez's “Financial Statement Analysis”, a resource devoted to providing the analytical framework necessary to make sense of the sometimes-misleading numbers put forth by companies. Scrutinizing financial statements allows one to, for example, evaluate a company's stock price or determine merger or acquisition valuations.
The Financial Statement Analysis Workbook provides a pathway to become familiar with these methodologies in order to be prepared to use them in real-world scenarios. With the skills provided within, you can begin to undertake goal-oriented preparation for the practical challenges of contemporary business and feel confident in your financial decision-making. This is aided by:
• Question-and-answer sections within this Workbook correspond to each chapter of Financial Statement Analysis
• Financial statement and computational exercises designed to require analysis and synthesis of concepts covered in the core text
• A full list of answers in the second half of the book that help explain pitfalls within the questions
An essential tool for professional analysts, investors, and students, “Financial Statement Analysis Workbook” offers the perfect opportunity to help turn theory into reality.
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Leaders and Innovators
How Data-Driven Organizations Are Winning with Analytics
by Tho H. Nguyen
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
An integrated, strategic approach to higher-value analytics
Leaders and Innovators: How Data-Driven Organizations Are Winning with Analytics shows how businesses leverage enterprise analytics to gain strategic insights for profitability and growth. The key factor is integrated, end-to-end capabilities that encompass data management and analytics from a business and IT perspective, with analytics running inside a database where the data reside, everyday analytical processes become streamlined and more efficient. This book shows you what analytics is, what it can do, and how you can integrate old and new technologies to get more out of your data. Case studies and examples illustrate real-world scenarios in which an optimized analytics system revolutionized an organization's business. Using in-database and in-memory analytics along with Hadoop, you'll be equipped to improve performance while reducing processing time from days or weeks to hours or minutes. This more strategic approach uncovers the opportunities hidden in your data, and the detailed guidance to optimal data management allows you to break through even the biggest data challenges.
With data coming in from every angle in a constant stream, there has never been a greater need for proactive and agile strategies to overcome these struggles in a volatile and competitive economy. This book provides clear guidance and an integrated strategy for organizations seeking greater value from their data and becoming leaders and innovators in the industry.
• Streamline analytics processes and daily tasks
• Integrate traditional tools with new and modern technologies
• Evolve from tactical to strategic behavior
• Explore new analytics methods and applications
The depth and breadth of analytics capabilities, technologies, and potential makes it a bottomless well of insight. But too many organizations falter at implementation-too much, not enough, or the right amount in the wrong way all fail to deliver what an optimized and integrated system could. Leaders and Innovators: How Data-Driven Organizations Are Winning with Analytics shows you how to create the system your organization needs to dramatically improve performance, increase profitability, and drive innovation at all levels for the present and future.
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Warranty Fraud Management
Reducing Fraud and Other Excess Costs in Warranty and Service Operations
by Matti Kurvinen
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
“Credit Risk Assessment: The New Lending System for Borrowers, Lenders, and Investors” equips you with an effective comprehensive credit assessment framework (CCAF) that can provide early warning of risk, thanks to its forward-looking analyses that do not rely on the premise that the past determines the future. Revealing how an existing credit underwriting system can be extended to embrace all relevant factors and business contexts in order to accurately classify credit risk and drive all transactions in a transparent manner, Credit Risk Assessment clearly lays out the facts.
This well-timed book explores how your company can improve its current credit assessment system to balance risk and return and prevent future financial disruptions. Describing how a new and comprehensive lending framework can achieve more complete and accurate credit risk assessment while improving loan transparency, affordability, and performance, “Credit Risk Assessment” addresses:
• How a CCAF connects borrowers, lenders, and investors-with greater transparency
• The current financial crisis and its implications
• The root cause to weaknesses in loan underwriting practices and lending systems
• The main drivers that undermine borrowers, lenders, and investors
• Why a new generation of lending systems is needed
• Market requirements and how a comprehensive risk assessment framework can meet them
• The notion of an underwriting gap and how it affects the lenders' underwriting practices
• Typical issues associated with credit scoring models
• How improper use of credit scoring in underwriting underestimates the borrower's credit risk
• The ways in which the current lending system fails to address loan affordability
• How mortgage and capital market financial innovation relates to the crisis
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Fraud Analytics Using Descriptive, Predictive, and Social Network Techniques
A Guide to Data Science for Fraud Detection
by Bart Baesens
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Detect fraud earlier to mitigate loss and prevent cascading damage
Fraud Analytics Using Descriptive, Predictive, and Social Network Techniques is an authoritative guidebook for setting up a comprehensive fraud detection analytics solution. Early detection is a key factor in mitigating fraud damage, but it involves more specialized techniques than detecting fraud at the more advanced stages. This invaluable guide details both the theory and technical aspects of these techniques, and provides expert insight into streamlining implementation. Coverage includes data gathering, preprocessing, model building, and post-implementation, with comprehensive guidance on various learning techniques and the data types utilized by each. These techniques are effective for fraud detection across industry boundaries, including applications in insurance fraud, credit card fraud, anti-money laundering, healthcare fraud, telecommunications fraud, click fraud, tax evasion, and more, giving you a highly practical framework for fraud prevention.
It is estimated that a typical organization loses about 5% of its revenue to fraud every year. More effective fraud detection is possible, and this book describes the various analytical techniques your organization must implement to put a stop to the revenue leak.
• Examine fraud patterns in historical data
• Utilize labeled, unlabeled, and networked data
• Detect fraud before the damage cascades
• Reduce losses, increase recovery, and tighten security
The longer fraud is allowed to go on, the more harm it causes. It expands exponentially, sending ripples of damage throughout the organization, and becomes more and more complex to track, stop, and reverse. Fraud prevention relies on early and effective fraud detection, enabled by the techniques discussed here. Fraud Analytics Using Descriptive, Predictive, and Social Network Techniques helps you stop fraud in its tracks, and eliminate the opportunities for future occurrence.
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Harness Oil and Gas Big Data With Analytics
Optimize Exploration and Production with Data-Driven Models
by Keith R. Holdaway
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Upgrade your programming language to more effectively handle high-frequency data.
“Machine Learning and Big Data with KDB+/Q” offers quants, programmers and algorithmic traders a practical entry into the powerful but non-intuitive kdb+ database and q programming language. Ideally designed to handle the speed and volume of high-frequency financial data at sell-and buy-side institutions, these tools have become the de facto standard; this book provides the foundational knowledge practitioners need to work effectively with this rapidly-evolving approach to analytical trading.
The discussion follows the natural progression of working strategy development to allow hands-on learning in a familiar sphere, illustrating the contrast of efficiency and capability between the q language and other programming approaches. Rather than an all-encompassing "bible"-type reference, this book is designed with a focus on real-world practicality to help you quickly get up to speed and become productive with the language.
• Understand why kdb+/q is the ideal solution for high-frequency data
• Delve into "meat" of q programming to solve practical economic problems
• Perform everyday operations including basic regressions, cointegration, volatility estimation, modelling and more
• Learn advanced techniques from market impact and microstructure analyses to machine learning techniques including neural networks
The kdb+ database and its underlying programming language q offer unprecedented speed and capability. As trading algorithms and financial models grow ever more complex against the markets they seek to predict, they encompass an ever-larger swath of data—more variables, more metrics, more responsiveness and altogether more "moving parts."
Traditional programming languages are increasingly failing to accommodate the growing speed and volume of data and lack the necessary flexibility that cutting-edge financial modelling demands. “Machine Learning and Big Data with KDB+/Q” opens up the technology and flattens the learning curve to help you quickly adopt a more effective set of tools.
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Mobile Learning
A Handbook for Developers, Educators, and Learners
by Scott Mcquiggan
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Explore the game-changing technology that allows mobile learning to effectively reach K-12 students
“Mobile Learning: A Handbook for Developers, Educators and Learners” provides research-based foundations for developing, evaluating, and integrating effective mobile learning pedagogy. Twenty-first century students require twenty-first century technology, and mobile devices provide new and effective ways to educate children.
But with new technologies come new challenges, therefore, this handbook presents a comprehensive look at mobile learning by synthesizing relevant theories and drawing practical conclusions for developers, educators, and students.
Mobile devices-in ways that the laptop, the personal computer, and netbook computers have not-present the opportunity to make learning more engaging, interactive, and available in both traditional classroom settings and informal learning environments. From theory to practice, Mobile Learning explores how mobile devices are different than their technological predecessors, makes the case for developers, teachers, and parents to invest in the technology, and illustrates the many ways in which it is innovative, exciting, and effective in educating K-12 students.
• Explores how mobile devices can support the needs of students
• Provides examples, screenshots, graphics, and visualizations to enhance the material presented in the book
• Provides developers with the background necessary to create the apps their audience requires
• Presents the case for mobile learning in and out of classrooms as early as preschool
• Discusses how mobile learning enables better educational opportunities for the visually impaired, students with Autism, and adult learners.
If you're a school administrator, teacher, app developer, or parent, this topical book provides a theoretical, well-researched discussion of the pedagogical theory and mobile learning, as well as practical advice in setting up a mobile learning strategy.
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Strategies in Biomedical Data Science
Driving Force for Innovation
by Jay A. Etchings
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
An essential collection of scholarly essays on the anthropology of Africa, offering a thorough introduction to the most important topics in this evolving and diverse field of study.
The study of the cultures of Africa has been central to the methodological and theoretical development of anthropology as a discipline since the late 19th-century. As the anthropology of Africa has emerged as a distinct field of study, anthropologists working in this tradition have strived to build a disciplinary conversation that recognizes the diversity and complexity of modern and ancient African cultures while acknowledging the effects of historical anthropology on the present and future of the field of study.
“A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa” is a collection of insightful essays covering the key questions and subjects in the contemporary anthropology of Africa with a key focus on addressing the topics that define the contemporary discipline. Written and edited by a team of leading cultural anthropologists, it is an ideal introduction to the most important topics in the field, both those that have consistently been a part of the critical dialogue and those that have emerged as the central questions of the discipline's future.
Beginning with essays on the enduring topics in the study of African cultures, “A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa” provides a foundation in the contemporary critical approach to subjects of longstanding interest. With these subjects as a groundwork, later essays address decolonization, the postcolonial experience, and questions of modern identity and definition, providing representation of the diverse thinking and scholarship in the modern anthropology of Africa.
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The Analytics Lifecycle Toolkit
A Practical Guide for an Effective Analytics Capability
by Gregory S. Nelson
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
An essential, timesaving guide for accountants, lawyers, nonprofit executives and directors, consultants, and volunteers
This book is an indispensable guide to navigating the complex maze of nonprofit tax rules and regulations. A clear and fully cited description of the requirements for the various categories of tax-exempt entities from public charities, private foundations, civic associations, business leagues, and social clubs to title-holding companies and governmental entities can be found. Practical guidance on potential for income tax on revenue-producing enterprises along with explanations of many exceptions to taxability is provided. Issues raised by Internet activity, advertising, publishing, providing services, and much more are explained.
This useful guide covers the many significant issues facing nonprofit organizations, including compensation and possible private inurement, affiliation, separations and mergers, donor disclosures, lobbying and electioneering, and employment taxes.
• Offers a supplemental, annual update to keep subscribers current on relevant changes in IRS forms, requirements, and related tax procedures
• Includes easy-to-use checklists highlighting such critical concerns as tax-exempt eligibility, reporting to the IRS, and comprehensive tax compliance issues
• Features a variety of sample documents for private foundations, including penalty abatement requests and sharing space agreements
• Provides helpful practice aids, such as a comparison of the differences between public and private charities, charts reflecting lobbying limits for different types of entities, and listings of rulings and cases that illustrate permissible activity for each type of organizations compared to impermissible activity
Filled with practical tips and suggestions for handling such critical situations as preparing for and surviving an IRS examination, “Tax Planning and Compliance for Tax-Exempt Organizations”, Fifth Edition provides guidance for the significant issues facing nonprofit organizations.
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Big Data Analytics
Turning Big Data into Big Money
by Frank J. Ohlhorst
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Understand the role and potential of fixed income as an asset class.
“Systematic Fixed Income: An Investor's Guide” offers readers a powerful, practical, and robust framework for investors and asset managers to preserve the diversifying properties of a fixed income allocation, and add to that unique sources of excess returns via systematic security selection. In other words, this framework allows for efficient capture of fixed income beta and fixed income alpha.
Celebrated finance professional Dr. Scott Richardson presents concrete strategies for identifying the relevant sources of risk and return in public fixed income markets and explains the tactical and strategic roles played by fixed income in typical portfolios. In the book, readers will explore:
• The implementation challenges associated with a systematic fixed income portfolio, including liquidity and risk
• The systematic return sources for rate and credit sensitive fixed income assets in both developed and emerging markets
An essential read for asset managers and institutional investors with a professional interest in fixed income markets, “Systematic Fixed Income: An Investor's Guide” deserves a place in the libraries of advanced degree students of finance, business, and investment, as well as other investment professionals seeking to refine their understanding of the full potential of this foundational asset class.
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Credit Risk Analytics
Measurement Techniques, Applications, and Examples in SAS
by Bart Baesens
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
The long-awaited, comprehensive guide to practical credit risk modeling
“Credit Risk Analytics” provides a targeted training guide for risk managers looking to efficiently build or validate in-house models for credit risk management. Combining theory with practice, this book walks you through the fundamentals of credit risk management and shows you how to implement these concepts using the SAS credit risk management program, with helpful code provided. Coverage includes data analysis and preprocessing, credit scoring, PD and LGD estimation and forecasting, low default portfolios, correlation modeling and estimation, validation, implementation of prudential regulation, stress testing of existing modeling concepts, and more, to provide a one-stop tutorial and reference for credit risk analytics. The companion website offers examples of both real and simulated credit portfolio data to help you more easily implement the concepts discussed, and the expert author team provides practical insight on this real-world intersection of finance, statistics, and analytics.
SAS is the preferred software for credit risk modeling due to its functionality and ability to process large amounts of data. This book shows you how to exploit the capabilities of this high-powered package to create clean, accurate credit risk management models.
• Understand the general concepts of credit risk management
• Validate and stress-test existing models
• Access working examples based on both real and simulated data
• Learn useful code for implementing and validating models in SAS
Despite the high demand for in-house models, there is little comprehensive training available, practitioners are left to comb through piece-meal resources, executive training courses, and consultancies to cobble together the information they need. This book ends the search by providing a comprehensive, focused resource backed by expert guidance. Credit Risk Analytics is the reference every risk manager needs to streamline the modeling process.
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Consumption-Based Forecasting and Planning
Predicting Changing Demand Patterns in the New Digital Economy
by Charles W. Chase
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Discover a new, demand-centric framework for forecasting and demand planning
In Consumption-Based Forecasting and Planning, thought leader and forecasting expert Charles W. Chase delivers a practical and novel approach to retail and consumer goods companies demand planning process. The author demonstrates why a demand-centric approach relying on point-of-sale and syndicated scanner data is necessary for success in the new digital economy.
The book showcases short- and mid-term demand sensing and focuses on disruptions to the marketplace caused by the digital economy and COVID-19. You'll also learn:
• How to improve demand forecasting and planning accuracy, reduce inventory costs, and minimize waste and stock-outs
• What is driving shifting consumer demand patterns, including factors like price, promotions, in-store merchandising, and unplanned and unexpected events
• How to apply analytics and machine learning to your forecasting challenges using proven approaches and tactics described throughout the book via several case studies.
Perfect for executives, directors, and managers at retailers, consumer products companies, and other manufacturers, Consumption-Based Forecasting and Planning will also earn a place in the libraries of sales, marketing, supply chain, and finance professionals seeking to sharpen their understanding of how to predict future consumer demand.
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Bricks Matter
The Role of Supply Chains in Building Market-Driven Differentiation
by Lora M. Cecere
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Get proven guidance to build a market-driven supply chain management system
Supply chain management processes have gradually shifted from a supply-driven focus to a demand-driven one in order to better synchronize demand and supply signals. Bricks Matter shows you how you can identify market risks and opportunities and translate these into winning tactics. Business cases highlight how business leaders are winning through market-driven approaches.
• Helps you understand how to apply the emerging world of predictive analytics for the better management of value networks
• Includes business cases illustrating the market-driven approach
• Reveals how businesses can identify market risks and translate these into supply-side tactics
As companies transition from demand-driven to market-driven approach, the focus in organizations shifts from one of vertical excellence to building strong market-to-market horizontal processes. Improve revenue by increasing market share, improve profit margins, and maintain high levels of customer service with the indispensable guidance found in Bricks Matter.
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Human Capital Analytics
How to Harness the Potential of Your Organization's Greatest Asset
by Gene Pease
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
An insightful look at the implementation of advanced analytics on human capital
Human capital analytics, also known as human resources analytics or talent analytics, is the application of sophisticated data mining and business analytics techniques to human resources data. Human Capital Analytics provides an in-depth look at the science of human capital analytics, giving practical examples from case studies of companies applying analytics to their people decisions and providing a framework for using predictive analytics to optimize human capital investments.
• Written by Gene Pease, Boyce Byerly, and Jac Fitz-enz, widely regarded as the father of human capital
• Offers practical examples from case studies of companies applying analytics to their people decisions
• An in-depth discussion of tools needed to do the work, particularly focusing on multivariate analysis
The challenge of human resources analytics is to identify what data should be captured and how to use the data to model and predict capabilities so the organization gets an optimal return on investment on its human capital. The goal of human capital analytics is to provide an organization with insights for effectively managing employees so that business goals can be reached quickly and efficiently. Written by human capital analytics specialists Gene Pease, Boyce Byerly, and Jac Fitz-enz, Human Capital Analytics provides essential action steps for implementation of advanced analytics on human capital.
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Analytics
The Agile Way
by Phil Simon
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
For years, organizations have struggled to make sense out of their data. IT projects designed to provide employees with dashboards, KPIs, and business-intelligence tools often take a year or more to reach the finish line...if they get there at all.
This has always been a problem. Today, though, it's downright unacceptable. The world changes faster than ever. Speed has never been more important. By adhering to antiquated methods, firms lose the ability to see nascent trends, and act upon them until it's too late.
But what if the process of turning raw data into meaningful insights didn't have to be so painful, time-consuming, and frustrating?
What if there were a better way to do analytics?
Fortunately, you're in luck...
Analytics: The Agile Way is the eighth book from award-winning author and Arizona State University professor Phil Simon.
Analytics: The Agile Way demonstrates how progressive organizations such as Google, Nextdoor, and others approach analytics in a fundamentally different way. They are applying the same Agile techniques that software developers have employed for years. They have replaced large batches in favor of smaller ones...and their results will astonish you.
Through a series of case studies and examples, “Analytics: The Agile Way” demonstrates the benefits of this new analytics mind-set: superior access to information, quicker insights, and the ability to spot trends far ahead of your competitors.
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Artificial Intelligence for Marketing
Practical Applications
by Jim Sterne
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
A sneak peek at up-and-coming trends in IT, a multidimensional vision for achieving business agility through agile architectures.
“The Agile Architecture Revolution” places IT trends into the context of Enterprise Architecture, reinventing Enterprise Architecture to support continuous business transformation. It focuses on the challenges of large organizations, while placing such organizations into the broader business ecosystem that includes small and midsize organizations as well as startups.
• Organizes the important trends that are facing technology in businesses and public sector organizations today and over the next several years
• Presents the five broad organizing principles called Supertrends: location independence, global cubicle, democratization of technology, deep interoperability, and complex systems engineering
• Provides a new perspective on service-oriented architecture in conjunction with architectural approaches to cloud computing and mobile technologies that explain how organizations can achieve better business visibility through IT and enterprise architecture
Laying out a multidimensional vision for achieving agile architectures, this book discusses the crisis points that promise sudden, transformative change, unraveling how organizations' spending on IT will continue to undergo radical change over the next ten years.
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Trade-Based Money Laundering
The Next Frontier in International Money Laundering Enforcement
by John A. Cassara
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Uncover the financial fraud that funds terrorist organizations
“Trade-Based Money Laundering” is an authoritative examination of this burgeoning phenomenon, now coming under scrutiny in the War on Terror. This book walks you through the signs and patterns of trade-based money laundering (TBML) to help you recognize it when it occurs and shows you how data and analytics can be used to detect it. You'll learn the common value transfer techniques including invoice fraud, over-and-under invoicing, and misrepresentation, and learn why analytic detection systems have yet to be implemented despite the existence of copious data. Case studies from around the world highlight the real-life implications of the concepts and processes presented in the text, giving you a first-hand view of the mechanisms at work inside this expanding illegal market.
Trade-based money laundering uses trade to convert large quantities of illicit cash into less conspicuous assets or commodities to evade financial transparency laws and regulations. As an ideal funding mechanism for terrorist groups, the practice is getting more attention even as it increases in scale and spread. This book takes you deep inside TBML to better arm you against its occurrence.
• Learn the typical value transfer techniques of TBML
• Examine case studies detailing international examples
• Discover why institutions have failed to implement detection systems
• Explore ways in which analytics can identify TBML
According to the U.S. State Department, TBML has reached staggering proportions in recent years, and is considered by many to be the next frontier of international money laundering enforcement. “Trade-Based Money Laundering” gives you a battle plan, with expert insight and real-world guidance.
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Too Big to Ignore
The Business Case for Big Data
by Phil Simon
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Research into gender equity in higher education, inspiring action
With this enlightening handbook, you can review the thinking of leading researchers on the current intersection of gender and higher education. “The Wiley Handbook of Gender Equity in Higher Education” provides an in-depth look at education's complicated relationships with, and in some cases inadequate fostering of, gender equity. The collection offers a bold picture of research into the subject. It also projects future paths of exploration, inquiry, and action for gender equity.
• Focuses specifically on gender and higher education across the globe, setting the stage for new explorations
• Examines gender equity in relation to the STEM fields
• Considers current male participation in higher education
• Covers gender segregation by major and the issue of women remaining in lower-paying areas
“The Wiley Handbook of Gender Equity in Higher Education” spotlights the continuing and integral role of educational institutions in the struggle for gender equity. Policy makers, university administrators, and researchers can look to this handbook for perspective on recent research as they move forward in the pursuit of more equitable educational environments.
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Agile by Design
An Implementation Guide to Analytic Lifecycle Management
by Rachel Alt-Simmons
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Achieve greater success by increasing the agility of analytics lifecycle management
“Agile by Design” offers the insight you need to improve analytic lifecycle management while integrating the right analytics projects into different frameworks within your business. You will explore, in-depth, what analytics projects are and why they are set apart from traditional development initiatives. Beyond merely defining analytics projects, “Agile by Design” equips you with the information you need to apply agile methodologies in a way that tailors your approach to individual initiatives-and the needs of your projects and team.
Lifecycle management is a complex subject area, and with the increasingly important integration of analytics into multiple facets of business models, understanding how to use agile tools while managing a product lifecycle is essential to maintaining a competitive edge in today's professional world.
• Gain an understanding of the principles, processes, and practices associated with effective analytic lifecycle management
• Discover techniques that will enable you to successfully initiate, plan, and execute analytic development projects with an eye for the opportunity to engage agile methodologies
• Understand agile development frameworks
• Identify which agile methodologies are best for different frameworks, and how to apply them throughout the analytic development lifecycle
With analytics becoming increasingly important in today's business world, you need to understand and apply agile methodologies in order to meet rising standards of efficiency and effectiveness. “Agile by Design” is the perfect reference for project managers, CFOs, IT managers, and marketing managers who want to cultivate a relevant, forward-thinking lifecycle management style.
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Visual Six Sigma
Making Data Analysis Lean
by Ian Cox
Part of the Wiley and SAS Business series
Straightforward, practical guidance for working fraud examiners and forensic accountants.
In “Data Sleuth: Using Data in Forensic Accounting Engagements and Fraud Investigations”, certified fraud examiner, former FBI support employee, private investigator, and certified public accountant Leah Wietholter delivers a step-by-step guide to financial investigation that can be applied to almost any forensic accounting use-case. The book emphasizes the use of best evidence as you work through problem-solving data analysis techniques that address the common challenge of imperfect and incomplete information.
The accomplished author bridges the gap between modern fraud investigation theory and practical applications and processes necessary for working practitioners. She also provides:
• Access to a complimentary website with supplementary resources, including a Fraud Detection Worksheet and case planning template
• Strategies for systematically applying the Data Sleuth® framework to streamline and grow your practice
• Methods and techniques to improve the quality of your work product
“Data Sleuth” is an indispensable, hands-on resource for practicing and aspiring fraud examiners and investigators, accountants, and auditors. It's a one-of-a-kind book that puts a practical blueprint to effective financial investigation in the palm of your hand.