This book offers a unique view of how innovativeness and competitiveness improve when organizations establish alliances with partners who have strong capabilities and broad social capital, allowing them to create value and growth as well as technological knowledge and legitimacy through new...

Introduction to business analytics -- Analytics on spreadsheets -- Visualizing and exploring data -- Descriptive statistical measures -- Probability distributions and data modeling -- Sampling and estimation -- Statistical inference -- Trendlines and regression analysis -- Forecasting techniques...