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← All guides- The Bicycle Guide toPrinciples of Marketing Engineering and AnalyticsThis book provides a systematic, model-supported framework for harnessing data and analytics to drive more effective and accountable marketing decisions in a data-rich world.
- The Bicycle Guide toProfessional Practice in Sport Performance AnalysisA practically grounded guide to the day-to-day realities of working as an applied sport performance analyst, spanning technology, coaching, interdisciplinary collaboration, professional development, ethics and economics.
- The Bicycle Guide toprofit firstA simple cash-management system that flips the traditional accounting formula by taking profit first from every deposit, forcing businesses to become profitable immediately and permanently.
- The Bicycle Guide toPython for Data AnalysisA practical, hands-on guide to manipulating, processing, cleaning, and analyzing structured data in Python using pandas, NumPy, and the Jupyter/IPython ecosystem.
- The Bicycle Guide toPython for Finance Mastering Data-Driven FinanceThis book teaches finance professionals how to use Python and its powerful ecosystem of libraries to master data-driven finance, from data analysis and visualization to algorithmic trading and derivatives analytics.
- The Bicycle Guide toR for Data ScienceA practical, hands-on guide to doing data science in R using the tidyverse, walking the reader through the complete workflow of importing, tidying, transforming, visualizing, modeling, and communicating data.
- The Bicycle Guide toReliable Machine Learning Applying SRE Principles to ML in ProductionA practical guide to operating machine learning systems reliably in production by applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles across the entire ML lifecycle.
- The Bicycle Guide toSales forecasting management: a demand management approachA comprehensive guide to transforming sales forecasting from a technical exercise into a strategic management process that integrates techniques, systems, and cross-functional collaboration to improve supply chain performance and drive shareholder value.
- The Bicycle Guide toScientific AdvertisingAdvertising is salesmanship in print, governed by testable, fixed laws, and every campaign should be measured by traced returns to know its true cost and result.
- The Bicycle Guide toShowstopper: the breakneckrace to create Windows NT and the next generation at MicrosoftA gripping journalistic account of the brutal, high-stakes, five-year 'death march' led by legendary and volcanic programmer Dave Cutler to create Microsoft's groundbreaking Windows NT operating system, detailing the immense technical complexity, corporate power struggles, and profound personal sacrifices of the team that built it.
- The Bicycle Guide toSocial Media Metrics - How to Measure and Optimize Your Marketing Investment (New Rules Social Media Series)A practical guide to measuring and optimizing the business value of social media marketing by tying attention, influence, sentiment, response, and conversation back to three core business goals.
- The Bicycle Guide toSoftware Architecture MetricsTen leading practitioners show how to select, implement, automate, and act on software architecture metrics so that objective measurement—not gut feeling—guides architectural decisions and business outcomes.
- The Bicycle Guide toSoftware estimation: demystifying the black artA practical guide that demystifies software estimation by providing developers and managers with straightforward, proven techniques to create accurate and reliable project estimates, moving the practice from a 'black art' to a manageable discipline.
- The Bicycle Guide toSoftware Metrics A Rigorous and Practical Approach Edition 3A comprehensive guide that applies formal measurement theory and a goal-oriented framework to software engineering, enabling practitioners to rigorously define, validate, and use metrics for understanding, controlling, and improving software products, processes, and resources.
- The Bicycle Guide toSports Analytics in Practice with RA hands-on, chapter-by-chapter guide to applying R programming and analytics techniques—from data visualization to machine learning, NLP, optimization, and exploratory analysis—across diverse sports contexts.
- The Bicycle Guide toSprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five DaysA step-by-step playbook for running a five-day 'sprint' that lets teams answer their most important questions by prototyping and testing ideas with real customers before committing significant time and money.
- The Bicycle Guide toStart With WhyGreat leaders and organizations inspire action by communicating from the inside out—starting with WHY (their purpose, cause or belief) rather than WHAT they do.
- The Bicycle Guide toStatistical Modeling and Analysis for Database Marketing Effective Techniques for Mining Big DataA practical guide for data analysts on using and improving statistical and machine learning techniques to build highly effective predictive models for database marketing.
- The Bicycle Guide toStop Random Acts of MarketingMid-market CEOs stuck on a revenue plateau must replace 'random acts of marketing' with a customer-driven strategy that aligns marketing and sales for sustainable growth.
- The Bicycle Guide toStrategic database marketing: the masterplan for starting and managing a profitable, customer-based marketing programA practical guide for marketers on how to develop and execute profitable strategies using customer databases, with customer lifetime value as the central criterion for success.
- The Bicycle Guide toSupply Chain Analytics A Comprehensive Guide to supply chain analytics, harnessing Python to drive efficiencyA comprehensive guide showing how data-driven analytics—descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive—can transform supply chains into efficient, resilient, and customer-centric competitive assets.
- The Bicycle Guide toSupply Chain ExcellenceA step-by-step, week-by-week handbook for using the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model to define, measure, and dramatically improve a company's supply chain performance.
- The Bicycle Guide toSupply Chain Management A Global PerspectiveA comprehensive guide to designing and managing competitive, resilient, and sustainable global supply chains by integrating key business functions and leveraging modern strategies and technologies.
- The Bicycle Guide toSupply Chain Metrics that MatterA guide for business leaders on how to drive sustainable corporate performance by managing a balanced portfolio of supply chain metrics as a complex, interconnected system.
- The Bicycle Guide toSupply chain optimization through segmentation and analyticsThere is no 'one size fits all' solution to supply chain planning and scheduling, so organizations should segment their supply chain and apply analytics to match the optimal planning and scheduling tool to each distinct segment.
- The Bicycle Guide toSupply Chain Planning and AnalyticsAn analytics-driven guide to the three interlinked processes of supply chain planning—demand planning, sales and operations planning, and inventory and supply planning—that together determine whether a company delivers the right product in the right place at the right time.
- The Bicycle Guide toSupply Chain Planning, 2nd EditionA practitioner-oriented guide showing how firms can use linked, hierarchical planning frameworks—supported by decision support systems and performance metrics—to align supply chain strategy with business goals and achieve superior, measurable performance.
- The Bicycle Guide toSupply chain scienceA management book that reframes production and supply chain management as a science, teaching managers the fundamental principles that explain why complex systems behave as they do so they can make better decisions in almost any scenario.
- The Bicycle Guide toSupply Chain Strategy The Logistics of Supply Chain ManagementThis book provides a comprehensive framework for developing and implementing a supply chain strategy by detailing best practices and systems across the five core logistics activities: customer response, inventory management, supply, transportation, and warehousing.
- The Bicycle Guide toThe Art of Capacity Planning Scaling Web Resources in the CloudA practical, field-tested guide for web operations professionals on how to measure, plan, and manage the technical resources needed for a growing web application to ensure high performance and availability.
- The Bicycle Guide toThe Balanced Scorecard Translating Strategy into ActionA revolutionary management system that translates a company's strategy into a balanced set of performance measures across four key perspectives—financial, customer, internal processes, and learning & growth—to drive long-term value creation.
- The Bicycle Guide toThe Basic Principles of People Analytics Learn how to use HR data to drive better outcomes for your business and employeesA practical primer showing HR professionals how to use employee data and analytics to make better, evidence-based people decisions that drive business outcomes.
- The Bicycle Guide toThe Book of Why - The New Science of Cause and EffectA manifesto for the Causal Revolution showing how causal diagrams and the mathematics of counterfactuals let us answer 'why' questions that statistics alone never could.
- The Bicycle Guide toThe Customer Centricity Playbook Implement a Winning Strategy Driven by Customer Lifetime ValueA tactical playbook for implementing a customer-centric business strategy built on the foundation of customer lifetime value (CLV) and the celebration of customer heterogeneity.
- The Bicycle Guide toThe Logistics and Supply Chain ToolkitA practical reference guide providing over 100 tools, techniques, and frameworks for logistics and supply chain professionals to audit, analyze, and improve operational efficiency across warehousing, transport, and inventory management.
- The Bicycle Guide toThe machine that changed the world: based on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5-million dollar 5-year study on the…A groundbreaking MIT study reveals how Toyota's revolutionary 'lean production' system surpasses traditional mass production, changing the rules of manufacturing, the nature of work, and the global industrial landscape.
- The Bicycle Guide toThe New Science of RetailingRetailers can dramatically increase profits by replacing hunch-driven merchandising with data-driven analytics that better match supply with customer demand across assortment, inventory, supply chain, incentives, execution, and technology decisions.
- The Bicycle Guide toThe OutsidersEight unconventional CEOs achieved extraordinary long-term success by rejecting conventional management wisdom and instead adhering to a shared, radically rational blueprint centered on superior capital allocation.
- The Bicycle Guide toThe Phoenix ProjectA reluctant new VP of IT Operations must save a struggling manufacturing company from itself by transforming chaotic, firefighting IT practices into disciplined, flow-optimized DevOps delivery—before the business collapses under the weight of its own technical debt.
- The Bicycle Guide toThe Power of People - How Successful Organizations Use Workforce Analytics To Improve Business PerformanceA practical guide for organizations to establish and leverage workforce analytics to make data-driven decisions about their people and improve business performance.