Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics

Tom Davenport · Jinho Kim

May 2014 · Highbridge Audio · Narrated by Alan Sklar

About this audiobook

Welcome to the age of data. No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up), your world is awash with data.As a successful manager today, you must make sense of all this information. You need to be conversant with analytical terminology and methods and able to work with quantitative information. This book promises to be your “quantitative literacy” guide-helping you develop the analytical skills needed right now in order to summarize data, find the meaning in it, and extract its value.

About the author

Thomas H. Davenport is a Distinguished Professor at Babson College, a visiting professor at Oxford's Saïd Business School, a research fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and a senior adviser to Deloitte's Analytics practice. He has written, coauthored, or edited twenty-one books.

Audie Award finalist Alan Sklar has narrated nearly two hundred audiobooks and has won several AudioFile Earphones Awards.