Yuri Vasilievich Kurnosov. Analytics as an Intelligent Weapon (№ 422427)

Analytics plays a huge role in the development of the intellectual potential of the nation. Modern processes of state and municipal management, business and production generate huge amounts of data. How to extract the maximum useful knowledge from heterogeneous information collected with varying degrees of accuracy and expressed in different dimensional units? How to create new methods for analyzing semi-structured problems? How do you do this efficiently if the amount of data is measured in gigabytes or even terabytes? How to build algorithms that use the available information to make effective management decisions? These and many other problems cannot be solved without solid theoretical and methodological analytical developments.
The author shows the historical roots of analytics, widely presents the foreign experience of the "thought factories" with the allocation of positive aspects that can be used in Russian conditions, reveals a wide range of issues related to the methodology, technology and organization of information and analytical activities. The applied aspects of analytics, those basic elements that are necessary for a person of intellectual work, are revealed in detail and in detail. The author's understanding of the "working methodology", systemic and synergistic analysis of problems, optimal ways of making management decisions is presented. The creative laboratory, a kind of "kitchen" of analytical work, those "rational grains" that actually make analytics effective and significant for management processes are revealed.
Many managers may find the ideas outlined in the book useful, which are worth adopting, so to speak. Hence the title of the book, since it is analytics that acts in modern conditions as an effective intellectual weapon in the competitive struggle of states and corporate structures.
Despite some controversial points in the book, the author as a whole managed to create a useful, deep and serious work.
I sincerely recommend this book for undergraduate, graduate students, faculty, scientists, analytical department staff, as well as for all business people who want to think and act more creatively and productively.