Data at Speed: What Professional Racing Teaches Leaders About Decisions and Performance (Black & White Edition)

PRAISE FOR DATA AT SPEED"A readable and intriguing business book that draws parallels between the corporate and racing worlds." -Kirkus Reviews"Ramsey does a skillful job of interweaving his own experiences on the racetrack, which lends his narrative more excitement than corporate guidebooks tend to have." -Kirkus ReviewsWhat if the best lessons about leading with data didn't come from a boardroom, but from inside a race car at 140 miles per hour?Dr. Mark Ramsey spent over 35 years as one of the most accomplished data and analytics leaders in the industry - the first Chief Data Officer at Samsung Telecommunications America, the first R&D Chief Data & Analytics Officer at GlaxoSmithKline, and leader of IBM's global analytics practice. Then he did something nobody expected: he built a professional racing team and took everything he knew about data strategy onto the racetrack.Data at Speed distills what the cockpit teaches the boardroom: five racing principles for organizations that want to stop talking about data and start winning with it: decompose your key metrics, predict your resources, expand your use of external data, find unique data sources, and mine your history creatively.Whether you are a CDO, CIO, CEO, or an aspiring data leader, Data at Speed will change how you think about the intersection of data, decisions, and performance.This Black & White Edition presents the complete text, charts, and photography in an economical format.