Winning with Data: Transform Your Culture, Empower Your People, and Shape the Future

Illustrative, trenchant case studies give you an up-close and detailed look at how the leading data-driven companies disrupt industries with data. From the Inside FlapThe biggest hotel company owns no hotel rooms, and the largest taxi company owns no taxis. Instead, the right questions are, "How do we get exactly the right insight into everyone's hands at the moment they need it?" With the authors' widely practiced methodology, the entire company can speak the same language and decide based on the same facts—not opinions—to outperform. To gain a competitive advantage and dominate markets with data, you need to harness the power of curiosity and forge it into innovation with the step-by-step process in Winning with Data.Venture capitalist Tomasz Tunguz and seasoned executive Frank Bien provide a rare insider's look at the transformative cultural changes data engenders in teams and companies. Both organizations wield data better than any of their competitors to d

Michael Sutton said A Solid Introduction. Originally posted at kellysutton.comI had been looking forward to picking up and reading Winning with Data by Tomasz Tunguz and Frank Bien ever since I first heard about the book on tomtunguz.com. This is my review.If you’re looking to get an initial introduction into data-driven companies or how you might bring data-driven thinking to your company, Winning with Data is for you. For deeper dives, you’ll need to supplement this book with other resources.The book is co-authored by Tomasz Tunguz, a partner at Redpoint Ventures, and Frank Bien, the founder of Looker, a business intelligence tool.Tun. A Solid Framework to Transform Decision Making using Data Anand Thaker The theme here is that access to multitudes of data simply is not enough. Using intelligence systems, renewed mindset and culture change all contribute to an evolved decision making paradigm to level-up. These changes contribute to a data-driven workforce who find deeper insights while avoiding the most common data fallacies plaguing progress. As someone who consults and as thought leader in decision making with data for over 15 years in energy, finance and marketing technology, "Winning with Data" delivers the best framework for any business or firm still searching for success leveraging their data assets.. I'd recommend this book to any start up CCMD I've read Tomasz's blog for a while and was excited to read his book. While one review critiqued the heavy use of anecdotes , I found the real world examples to be the meat and interest of the book. (Isn't this how all of Malcolm Gladwell books read? A rather simple but important concept illustrated by many in depth real scenarios.) And the examples used are highly relevant and interesting sneak peaks into some of the fastest growing companies of our day. I'd recommend this book to any start up, biz ops, sales, marketing , product team looking to further indoctrinate the culture of data into their day to da

This book takes a deeper look at big data in business, and shows you how to shift internal culture ahead of the curve.Understand the changes a data culture brings to companiesInstrument your company for maximum benefitUtilize data to optimize every aspect of your businessImprove decision making and transform business strategyBig data is becoming the number-one topic in business, yet no one is asking the right questions. Real-world examples illustrate these important concepts at work: you'll learn how data helped Warby-Parker disrupt a $13 billion monopolized market, how ThredUp uses data to process more than 20 thousand items of clothing every day, how Venmo leverages data to build better products, how HubSpot empowers their salespeople to be more productive, and more. From decision making and strategy to shipping and sales, this book shows you how

He has built his career on nurturing strong corporate culture and highly efficient teams. TOMASZ TUNGUZ is a venture capitalist at Redpoint and writes daily, data-driven blog posts about key topics for startups including fundraising, startup benchmarks, best practices, and team building. . FRANK