"Data: How Data Will Help You in Your Life and Business, and Transform Society" is a clear, practical guide to understanding, working with, and communicating through data—both in personal life and in the professional world. Divided into three sections —Data and People, Data and Companies, and Data and Society— the book explains key concepts such as what data is, how algorithms and artificial intelligence work, and the difference between big data ...

There’s a lot of waste in tech. Billions of dollars of it. Software gets written and digital products designed and shipped that no one wants. Some say it’s “just a part of doing the business of innovation” in hot new markets.But waste is not inevitable anymore.Hypothesis Driven Development (HDD) is an emerging approach to digital product management for both business people and engineers. It emphasizes rigorous, continuous experimentation as a way to both m...

Make the Most of QFD and the Voice of the Customer in Six Sigma EnvironmentsQuality Function Deployment (QFD) techniques have helped thousands of organizations deliver higher-quality, more user-focused product designs. Now, Lou Cohen’s classic guide to QFD has been thoroughly updated to fully align QFD with Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) and other state-of-the-art Six Sigma methodologies.Revised by world-class Six Sigma expert Joe Ficalora and his team at Sigm...

Better thinking makes you a better person. And few things extend your mind as quickly and powerfully as the humble note. Notes let you fulfill commitments, manage complicated projects, and make your ideas real. Digital notes take you even further. By using the right tools and a bit of discipline, you can cultivate a “personal knowledge garden" where your thinking will blossom."An informative guide to organizing and managing thoughts, with a digital focus."—Kirkus Review...

An easy-to-implement blueprint from the mathematician who reverse-engineered OkCupid and met the woman of his dreams in 90 days.Christopher McKinlay has been featured in Wired Magazine for his groundbreaking analysis of OkCupid. For the first time he’s showing non-experts how to turn Internet dating on its head. This concise guide will show anyone (straight, gay, male or female) the procedure McKinlay used to meet his fiancee and how the same ideas can transform th...

Six Sigma and this book challenges traditional thinking and approaches to product and service design. Has a nice flow. One can easily find key topics for reference. Get this too if you plan to use it as one of our foundations for training. Deep, new perspectives on "old" tools and their applications. Regardless of your level of expertise, you will learn from this book.It is Helpful for practitioners and beginners. Everyone designing products or services should be aware of this book...

If you've been tasked with building a team to handle risk management for online payments (RMP), this practical introduction provides a framework for choosing the technologies and personnel you need. Author and financial services executive Ohad Samet explains the components of payments risk management, and presents a coherent strategy and operational approach.You'll learn the answers to questions you're likely to encounter in the first 18 months of operation, with information that S...

Design for Impact is a down–to–earth A/B testing guide. It features the Conversion Design process to operationalize effective experimentation in your company. In it, Erin Weigel gives you practical tips and tools to design better experiments at scale. She does this with self–deprecating humor that will leave you smiling—if not laughing aloud. As a bonus, The Good Experimental Design toolkit presents everything you learn into step–by–step process f...

This handbook is designed to help candidates preparing for the ASQ Six Sigma Green Belt certification exam. Meant for those who already understand the basic concepts of reducing variation and improving processes, it also serves as a helpful reference to the appropriate materials needed to conduct successful Green Belt projects. The layout of the handbook is mapped to the 2022 version of ASQ’s Body of Knowledge (BoK). This revised edition includes new information about: • SMART goals, key p...

Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives.The primary challenge of project management is to achieve all of the engineering project goals and objectives while honoring the preconceived project constraints. Typical constraints are scope, time, and budget the secondary—and more ambitious—challenge is to optimize the allocation and integration of inputs n...

Everywhere you look people are talking about data.Buzzwords abound – 'data science', 'machine learning','artificial intelligence'. But what does any of it really mean, and most importantly what does it mean for your business?Long-established businesses in many industries find themselves competing with new entrants built entirely on data and analytics. This ground-breaking new book levels the playing field in dramatic fashion.The Average is Always Wrong is a...

The quest for the operational excellence has started few years ago. Among the solutions to achieve that goal, companies have tried to adopt new information technologies, the BPMS, with the promises that their business processes would be easily automated. So, what happened? Based on a market study, this essay tries to determine the best organisational environment setup by comparing the implementation of the current information automation systems with the industrialization of the early twent...