Tom Davenport (author of Competing on Analytics) had a nice post today called Back to Decision-Making Basics in which he talked about some of the issues raised when one considers IT investments in the context of better decisions. He quoted an academic colleague who asked:
“these companies you work with have some specific decisions in mind [...]

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 [...]