The document provides an overview of a business intelligence and market watch course being offered at Advancia Business School in Paris. It discusses various topics that will be covered including data sources, data warehousing, online analytical processing (OLAP), observing-orienting-deciding-acting (OODA) loops, and multidimensional data representation. It also lists required and optional reading materials for the course.
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1. From the perspective of the brain, new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the same exact time How we decide John Lehrer March 2009 Hougton Mufflin Harcourt 302 pp. $ 25 Available from amazon.com
2. From notebook to Facebook Evolution of Intelligence/Counter-intelligence in business from taylorism, fordism to Wikipedia, Google, Twitter , Groundswelling, Second Life, ALTIFace 3D OLAP via Big Blue, Windows, Intel, Nams statistics of body count, Cloud Computing, peer-to-peer, many-to-many, blogging, cyberattacks, et alia. FE Pozzolini Fellow Business Intelligence & Market Watch Course Master ONE Academic Year 2009 2010 ADVANCIA Business School - Paris Abstract of the course (Release 1.06 August 2009) Eugenio Pozzolini Pozzolini Flying Circus, 2009
3. Thankyous David Menga for the suggestion of the Tree of Life reading Giorgio de Luca , my partner at Dean & Deluca, for the hard knocks periclean school of life and business acumen My University of Florence Professors (1971 1974): Garin, Luporini, Ragionieri and Procacci for their Marxian rigor meated by Italian flexibility in working for me, a free thinker , and for the improvement of my knowledge Michael Cohen , Jeremie Renouf, Alexandre Gallisot, three of my student ad ADVANCIA who better understood BI, the OLAP, the OODA and helped me in the development and improvement of the content and form of course Altis Team (Elise Dupont, Laurent Trudu and Jonathan Antoine) for the innovative ALTIFace 3D OLAP YouTube - ALTIFACE Natural 3D Olap on Microsoft Surface - English Version
4. Whats all this about ? Groundswelling Twitter Wiki Many-to-many Data fusion Second life Cloudcomputing Google Flu Clicks & Bricks ALTIFace 3D OLAP Once upon a time there was Web 2.0...
8. The course Observe , Orient, Decide , Act (the O.O.D.A. loop ) Centricity of the human mind in analytical processes in time & space iii. From the x & y two dimensional via a x, y, z three dimensional to polydimensional representation The Online Analytical Process ( the O.L.A.P. C ube ) Dimensions & Measures, their relation to Data & Information Slicing , Dicing & Drilling the CUBE Sources of data and info: Metadata repositories (the Universal Library) Data Warehouse (your 束 Tetra times Tetra 損 Hardisk) Datamarts (your live ram memory)
9. Bibliography/Reading requirements Mandatory reading (one book and one article) Business Intelligence for Dummies - Swain Scheps John Wiley The Multidimentional DATA MODELING Toolkit - John Parades OLAP World Press OLAP Solutions Volume (2ndEdition) - Erik Thomsen John Wiley How we decide - John Lehrer Hougton Harcourt Best practices in Operational BI - Converging Analytical and Operational Processes - Wayne W. Eckerson Managing risk in an unstable world Ian Brenner Harvard Business Review On Point Spring 2009 Abstract of the Discourse and Conceptual Spiral - John R. Boyd www.d-n-i.net/boyd/pdf/intro.pdf Destruction and Creation - John R. Boyd www.chetrichards.com/modern_business_strategy/boyd/destruction/destructionand_creation . htm Optional general reading Tree of Knowledge (The biological roots of Human understanding) H.Maturana et Valera - Shambhala Empire M.Hardt et A. Negri Harvard U. Press Manufacturing Consent (The political economy of the Mass Media) - N. Chomsky et E. Herman - Pantheon Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies C.Li & J.Bernoff - Harvard Bus. Press The Mediterranean and the mediterranean World in the age of Philip I (First volume) F. Braudel US Army Counterinsurgency Field Manual 2007 - Gen. Petraus at alia. Chicago U. Press Lemploi, nouveax enjeux - Le Monde/Insee (Le bilan du Monde 2009)
10. Operational & Tutorial Tools Analythical software PC based (such as XLCubes) Central Server for 20, 30, 100 students at Advancia Administrator or a CD based tutorship such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoErf1cYmNs