Business Intelligence for New-Generation Managers - Current Avenues of Development

Executives in Europe have significantly expanded their role in operations - in parallel to their strategic leadership. At the same time, they need to make decisions faster than in the past. In these demanding times, a redesigned Business Intelligence (BI) should support managers in their new roles. This book summarizes current avenues of development helping managers to perform their jobs more productively by using 'BI for managers' as their central, hands-on, day-to-day source of information - even when they are mobile.

List of contents

On the Advent of Operational Perspectives in Business Intelligence.- On the Way from a Knowledge Discovery in Databases to a Predictive Analytics.- Design and Implementation of a Performance Measurement System for the German Trade Sector.- Applicability of Environmental Scanning Systems - A Systematic List Approach to Requirements Criteria.- Developing Individual IT-Enabled Capabilities for Management Control Systems.- Towards an Evaluation Framework to Structure Business Intelligence Project Patterns as Enhancement of Business Intelligence Maturity Models.- Deployment of a Descriptive Big Data Model.- Self-Service Management Support Systems - Findings from a New-Generation Manager Perspective.

About the author

Prof. Dr. Reiner Quick, Fachbereich Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Fachgebiet Rechnungswesen, Controlling und Wirtschaftsprüfung, TU Darmstadt.

Summary

Executives in Europe have significantly expanded their role in operations – in parallel to their strategic leadership. At the same time, they need to make decisions faster than in the past. In these demanding times, a redesigned Business Intelligence (BI) should support managers in their new roles. This book summarizes current avenues of development helping managers to perform their jobs more productively by using 'BI for managers' as their central, hands-on, day-to-day source of information – even when they are mobile.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jör H Mayer (Editor), Jörg H Mayer (Editor), Jörg H. Mayer (Editor), Quick (Editor), Quick (Editor), Reiner Quick (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9783319156958
• ISBN: 978-3-31-915695-8
• No. of pages: 136
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 13 mm x 245 mm
• Weight: 338 g
• Illustrations: IX, 136 p. 45 illus., 13 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Advertising, marketing; Marketing, B, Market research, Business and Management, Accounting, Information Retrieval, Accounting/Auditing, IT in Business, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet), Market Research/Competitive Intelligence, Application software, Information Technology, Finance & accounting, Management science, Business mathematics & systems, Internet searching, Management accounting & bookkeeping, Bookkeeping, Business—Data processing, Business applications