Adopting Analytics

Although not formally released by Harvard Business Press for another week (Amazon.com indicates February 8, 2010 availability), as expected the success of "Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning" is generating interest in the "Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results" follow-up effort by Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne G. Harris, and Robert Morison. The first several reader reviews have been submitted (including my own review), and I had an exchange with one of the first reviewers, Mark P. McDonald, in response to one of his comments, reiterated here: