Ian Ayres book, Super Crunchers: Why thinking by numbers is the new way to be smart, is another book extolling the virtues of data-driven decision making. In that regard it is very similar to Competing on Analytics. The book focuses in on the power of data mining and other analytic techniques, especially when combined with [...]

Dave Dixon wrote a nice post a little while ago - Why You Should Care About Shareholder Value - and I have been mulling writing a response. Dave works at Provisdom and has recently started a blog there (despite being a fairly new blog, he has already written some interesting posts so check it out [...]