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The Economics of Data, Analytics, and Digital Transformation: The theorems, laws, and empowerments to guide your organization's digital transformation
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Build a continuously learning and adapting organization that can extract increasing levels of business, customer and operational value from the amalgamation of data and advanced analytics such as AI and Machine Learning
Key Features
- Master the Big Data Business Model Maturity Index methodology to transition to a value-driven organizational mindset
- Acquire implementable knowledge on digital transformation through 8 practical laws
- Explore the economics behind digital assets (data and analytics) that appreciate in value when constructed and deployed correctly
Book Description
In today's digital era, every organization has data, but just possessing enormous amounts of data is not a sufficient market discriminator.
The Economics of Data, Analytics, and Digital Transformation aims to provide actionable insights into the real market discriminators, including an organization's data-fueled analytics products that inspire innovation, deliver insights, help make practical decisions, generate value, and produce mission success for the enterprise.
The book begins by first building your mindset to be value-driven and introducing the Big Data Business Model Maturity Index, its maturity index phases, and how to navigate the index. You will explore value engineering, where you will learn how to identify key business initiatives, stakeholders, advanced analytics, data sources, and instrumentation strategies that are essential to data science success. The book will help you accelerate and optimize your company's operations through AI and machine learning.
By the end of the book, you will have the tools and techniques to drive your organization's digital transformation.
Here are a few words from Dr. Kirk Borne, Data Scientist and Executive Advisor at Booz Allen Hamilton, about the book:
Data analytics should first and foremost be about action and value. Consequently, the great value of this book is that it seeks to be actionable. It offers a dynamic progression of purpose-driven ignition points that you can act upon.
What you will learn
- Train your organization to transition from being data-driven to being value-driven
- Navigate and master the big data business model maturity index
- Learn a methodology for determining the economic value of your data and analytics
- Understand how AI and machine learning can create analytics assets that appreciate in value the more that they are used
- Become aware of digital transformation misconceptions and pitfalls
- Create empowered and dynamic teams that fuel your organization's digital transformation
Who this book is for
This book is designed to benefit everyone from students who aspire to study the economic fundamentals behind data and digital transformation to established business leaders and professionals who want to learn how to leverage data and analytics to accelerate their business careers.
Table of Contents
- The CEO Mandate: Become Value-driven, Not Data-driven
- Value Engineering: The Secret Sauce for Data Science Success
- A Review of Basic Economic Concepts
- University of San Francisco Economic Value of Data Research Paper
- The Economic Value of Data Theorems
- The Economics of Artificial Intelligence
- The Schmarzo Economic Digital Asset Valuation Theorem
- The 8 Laws of Digital Transformation
- Creating a Culture of Innovation Through Empowerment
- Appendix A: My Most Popular Economics of Data, Analytics, and Digital Transformation Infographics
- Appendix B: The Economics of Data, Analytics, and Digital Transformation Cheat Sheet
- ISBN-101800561415
- ISBN-13978-1800561410
- PublisherPackt Publishing
- Publication dateNovember 30, 2020
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions6 x 0.59 x 9 inches
- Print length260 pages
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Bill Schmarzo, The Dean of Big Data
Key Features:
- Master the Big Data Business Model Maturity Index methodology
- Acquire implementable knowledge on the 8 laws of digital transformation
- Explore the economics behind digital assets, data, and analytics
What are the key takeaways from The Economics of Data, Analytics, and Digital Transformation?
This book frames the big data problem from a business perspective. It focuses on how important economic concepts can help organizations exploit the new economic assets of data and analytics to fuel economic growth – assets that actually appreciate, not depreciate, in value the more that they are used.
It details the importance of value engineering – the ability to identify where and how data and analytics will provide value in support of an organization’s most important use cases.
Key Takeaways:
- The economics of data and analytics are game changers
- Data is an asset that never depletes and can be used across an unlimited number of use cases at zero marginal cost
- Digital transformation can empower front-line employees of an organization
How does your book differ from other books on digital transformation and big data?
I wanted to write a hands-on, pragmatic textbook to educate both students and executives who wanted to understand how to exploit the unique economic characteristics of data and analytics to create new sources of customer, product, and operational value. This book is not meant to sit on someone’s shelf but to be dog-eared and covered in post-it notes as people apply the concepts in the book to their everyday jobs!
Another area I wanted to address with the book was that most organizations lack a methodology for determining the economic value of their data and analytics.
Consequently, I wanted to write a book to help organizations master the mechanics of data monetization by introducing a value engineering methodology. I want to teach organizations how to embrace a systematic approach to build out their data and analytic economic assets one use case at a time.
The reason this book is timely is because in knowledge-based industries, the ‘economies of learning’ are more powerful than the ‘economies of scale’. And soon, every industry will be a knowledge-based industry.
Table of Contents:
- The CEO Mandate: Become Value-driven, Not Data-driven
- Value Engineering: The Secret Sauce for Data Science Success
- A Review of Basic Economic Concepts
- The Economic Value of Data Theorems
- The Economics of Artificial Intelligence
- The Schmarzo Economic Digital Asset Valuation Theorem
- Creating a Culture of Innovation Through Empowerment
- ...And more!
Editorial Reviews
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"Bill's book is what many of us in the industry have long been waiting for: a brain dump of his brilliant ideas, templates, and illustrations on how to use data to transform an organization."
--Doug Laney, Data and Analytics Strategist, Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois Gies College of Business
"This book is a call to action for organizations that seek higher levels of performance. Bill's book reminds us of the importance of evidence-based decision making, continuous learning of and continuous improvement through the lens of data and the value of analytics."
--Elizabeth B. Davis, PhD., Dean of the School of Economics and Business Administration, St. Mary's College of California
"In this refreshing book, Bill delves into impressive areas of new research questioning the economic value of data and digital transformation that can be used to tackle the most pressing issues in today's volatile business environment."
--Mouwafac Sidaoui, Dean of the School of Business, Menlo College
About the Author
Bill Schmarzo, The Dean of Big Data is a University of San Francisco School of Management Executive Fellow and an Honorary Professor at the School of Business and Economics at the National University of Ireland-Galway where he teaches and mentors students in his courses "Big Data MBA" and "Thinking Like a Data Scientist". He is the author of Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business, Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data Science, and The Art of Thinking Like a Data Scientist. He has written countless whitepapers, articles and blogs, and given keynote presentations and university lectures on the topics of data science, artificial intelligence/machine learning, data economics, design thinking and team empowerment.
Product details
- Publisher : Packt Publishing (November 30, 2020)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 260 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1800561415
- ISBN-13 : 978-1800561410
- Item Weight : 12.5 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.59 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #444,433 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #209 in Data Modeling & Design (Books)
- #290 in Information Management (Books)
- #349 in Data Processing
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About the author

Bill Schmarzo is the CTO for the Big Data Practice, where is responsible for working with organizations to help them identify where and how to start their big data journeys. He's written several white papers, is an avid blogger and is a frequent speaker on the use of Big Data and data science to power the organization's key business initiatives. He is a University of San Francisco School of Management Fellow where he teaches the "Big Data MBA" course.
Bill has over three decades of experience in data warehousing, BI and analytics. Bill authored EMC's Vision Workshop methodology that links an organization's strategic business initiatives with their supporting data and analytic requirements, and co-authored with Ralph Kimball a series of articles on analytic applications. Bill has served on The Data Warehouse Institute's faculty as the head of the analytic applications curriculum.
Bill holds a masters degree in Business Administration from the University of Iowa and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics, Computer Science and Business Administration from Coe College
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First of all, the language was too casual and full of contractions. For example, "like folding all of the envelopes the wrong way before you realize that they won't fit into the envelopes." (pg 132) What? Envelopes fitting into envelopes? That really escaped me. Then on page 119, talking about Google making TensorFlow open source being a "ballsy yet brilliant move." Too many don'ts, won'ts, shouldn'ts all over the text. Professional writing should avoid this.
Second, the diagrams and images were all black and white making them extremely difficult to read and decipher. Increasing the size and adding colour would have helped immensely. Good luck trying to understand what's happening in Figure 7.3 or 9.1. Interesting ideas and information made unnecessarily difficult to decipher. Sad, especially when the author says "I've learned that a good infographic provides an interesting visual. However, a great infographic tells a story, orchestrated in such a way as to convey a deep and sometimes complicated message in an entertaining and engaging manner." (pg 196) Even Appendix A, a collection of most popular infographics, is entirely in black and white. There is a link to download the colour images but does that mean that one should have a laptop or smart device when reading this book?
A book like this could and should have been more visual. I'm donating mine. It's not something I'd keep.
To connect the ideas to the real world, and to facilitate the reader in analyzing possibilities applicable to their own organization, the book includes three very short use cases:
1) Google TensorFlow (TF) - this example highlights that Google created an analytics tool, TF. This tool is open-source, and is used by many other organizations, both of which helps improve the tool. In addition, Google uses the tool in its own operations and gains much value from that.
2) The self-driving features in a Tesla - this is presented as a case in which appreciation occurs; that is, the AI system improves with usage. It is mentioned that "Tesla is aggregating all of the cars' operational and driving data in the Tesla cloud, where it is running even more driving simulations to continuously train the autonomous FSD Autopilot analytic module.".
3) A paper which motivated the writing of the book is included in Chapter 4, and it introduces a use case around Chipotle - with this example, the author goes through a six step process to illustrate application of the ideas in the book, namely:
Step 1: Identify a Targeted Business Initiative - e.g. "increasing same-store sales by 7%"
Step 2: Estimate Financial Value of the Business Initiative - across 1410 stores, this would result in $191 million in additional revenue for the company
Step 3: Identify Supporting Business Use Cases - for example, increase store traffic via local events marketing, increase traffic with a customer loyalty program, increase shopping bag revenue, etc.
Step 4: Estimate Financial Value of Each Use Case - this reveals a comparison of the value of each of the use cases
Step 5: Estimate the Value of the Supporting Data - "how important is data source #1 to use case #1, how important is data source #2 to use case #1, and so on"
Step 6: Identify and Capture Analytics - "the end result is an Analytic Profile for each Chipotle store that captures the analytic results across all the business use cases". Each store has unique characteristics - for example, a store can have a lot of traffic, however, the traffic can be very variable; for example, if the store is near a high school and receives a lot of business on school days at lunch time. An "Analysis Results" table is given which includes a score and a variability measure for that score for a variety items, such as "store traffic".
The book doesn't address details about how Google developed its TF product, nor details about Tesla's Autonomous Driving systems. Certainly a lot of human technical work and expertise went into those.
The last chapter is interesting - Creating a Culture of Innovation Through Empowerment. The author emphasizes the value of diversity of perspectives. He also lists 5 "empowerments", of which a couple are:
1) Empowerment #2 focuses on the importance of the customer and speaking the language of the customer. "Design Thinking" can be used, which "is a highly iterative yet scalable process that starts by:
"Empathizing with the targeted customer's challenge.
Defining or framing the customer's challenge.
Ideating potential solutions (where all ideas are worthy of consideration).
Prototyping different solution options (to validate with the customers in order to learn from the customers).
Testing, learning, and refining until you find a workable solution."
2) Empowerment #5: Embrace critical thinking - this is a good point to express to students, as well as a good reminder for anyone. There are nine separate parts to that lesson, two of which are "be skeptical" and "consider the source".
The author ends on a positive note, encouraging folks to allow any "failures" to "fuel future successes".
Top reviews from other countries
Despite each chapter being capable of enough content to fill their own book, respectively, Bill lays it out in a detailed, yet 'overview' styled format to ensure it is not just a reference point for one particular role or personality, whilst allowing the full 360 vision of it all to be clearly evident and attainable.
From C-Suite to various technology-based roles and beyond, the book summarizes the concept in a concise and clear way so that it can be consumed by anyone without getting too bogged down with technical jargon.
My favorite chapter is: Creating a Culture of Innovation through Empowerment, where it lists 5 subcategories, with Number 5 (Embrace Critical thinking) as that which I found most insightful.
A guide, a manual and so much more than a one-time read, I recommend this book to anyone who has a passion for Big Data, Analytics, Digital Transformation and it's overall potential for subsequent monetization.
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 3, 2021
Despite each chapter being capable of enough content to fill their own book, respectively, Bill lays it out in a detailed, yet 'overview' styled format to ensure it is not just a reference point for one particular role or personality, whilst allowing the full 360 vision of it all to be clearly evident and attainable.
From C-Suite to various technology-based roles and beyond, the book summarizes the concept in a concise and clear way so that it can be consumed by anyone without getting too bogged down with technical jargon.
My favorite chapter is: Creating a Culture of Innovation through Empowerment, where it lists 5 subcategories, with Number 5 (Embrace Critical thinking) as that which I found most insightful.
A guide, a manual and so much more than a one-time read, I recommend this book to anyone who has a passion for Big Data, Analytics, Digital Transformation and it's overall potential for subsequent monetization.
Just a few spoilers 💊s :
-#analyticschasm ? Your organization needs to leverage the economics of data and analytics on a use case-by-use case basis
-#datalake ? Let us transform it into a collaborative value creation platform, to facilitate the capture, refinement and reuse of the organization’s data and analytic asset across multiple use cases
-my favorite theorem: the ability to reuse the same datasets across multiple use cases is the real economic game-changer
-some cons I could see (may be other would say thanks God) is missing some more mathematical things when reading “Schmarzo Economic Digital Asset Valuation Theorem” (sorry for being 🤓) and some cons about the printing book(Packt should make easier to access the quality of infographics, having them in black and white makes difficult to read them fully)
-Digital Transformation Laws! My favorite: the law 7 📑 The heart of Digital Transformation is the ability to identify, codify and operationalize the sources of customer, product, and operational value within an environment that is continuously learning and adapting to ever-changing customer and market needs
-great great chapter about #innovation through #empowerment where between the most important tips I consider the “AND Mentality” + #designthinking








