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Business analytics can help you manage the accelerating risk and uncertainty associated with today’s global business environments. In Global Business Analytics Models, Hokey Min empowers managers to use today’s analytical tools and techniques to gain reliable, actionable international business intelligence, and to solve many of the most urgent problems their global businesses face. Min offers a practical, easy-to-understand overview of business analytics in a global context, focusing especially on managerial and strategic implications. After demystifying the basic quantitative tools of modern analytics, he demonstrates them at work in global applications ranging from finance and supply chain management to healthcare. Coverage includes: Developing analytic thinking, and operationalising Big Data in global environments Capitalising on business analytics to build a winning global strategy Collecting, sorting, prioritising, storing, and managing data Predicting international customer behavior, segmenting global markets, and forecasting demand in unfamiliar foreign markets Performing international risk and assessments more effectively Using analytics to help plan the financing of global business operations Integrating international social and mobile analytics Overcoming cultural and technical differences that complicate the use of analytics in global firms Establishing effective performance metrics for your use of analytics Taming Big Data for global Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Making better decisions about global suppliers, manufacturing, distribution, transportation, and supply chain resilience Analysing clinical, pharmaceutical, and patient behavior data to improve healthcare Anticipating future paths of innovation in global business analytics

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Dr. Hokey Min is James R. Good Chair in Global Supply Chain Strategy in the Department of Management at Bowling Green State University. He was Professor of Supply Chain Management, Distinguished University Scholar, and Founding Executive Director of the Logistics and Distribution Institute (LoDI), the UPS Center for World-Wide Supply Chain Management, and the Center for Supply Chain Workforce Development at the University of Louisville. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Management Sciences and Logistics from the Ohio State University. His expertise includes global logistics strategy, healthcare supply chains, closed-loop supply chains, e-synchronized supply chains, service benchmarking, and supply chain modeling. He has published more than 175 scholarly articles in various refereed journals, including European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Business Logistics, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Journal of the Operational Research Society, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Transportation Journal, and Transportation Research. He recently authored two books: one titled Healthcare Supply Chain Management: Basic Concept and Principles, and another titled The Essentials of Supply Chain Management: New Business Concepts and Applications. He has also engaged in numerous consulting projects with more than 50 organizations, including UPS, Brown-Forman Beverage World-Wide, Syntel Inc., Calphalon, Nationwide Insurance, National Tobacco Company, Time-It Transportation, Pegasus Transportation Inc., Usher Transport Inc., Nagle Trucking, Houston-Johnson Inc., Master Halco, Briggs and Stratten, WestPoint Stevens, ScanSteel Inc., Dixie Warehouse Services, GenLyte Thomas Industries, Owens Corning, Buckeye Cable Systems, Andersons Inc., BioFit, Kentucky Motor Transport Association, Korea Maritime Institute (KMI), Korea Ocean Research Development Institute (KORDI), the Korea Research Institute of Ships & Ocean Engineering (KRISO), and the Chinese Rural Energy & Environment Agency.

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