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Data Driven

An Introduction to Management Consulting in the 21st Century

  • First book to consider Management Consulting in terms of Big Data
  • A scientific, modern, complete and concise treatment
  • Accompanying website redirects to books, articles, tutorials, reports and consulting events
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Management for Professionals (MANAGPROF)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
  2. Analysis of the Management Consulting Industry

    • Jeremy David Curuksu
    Pages 1-16
  3. Future of Big Data in Management Consulting

    • Jeremy David Curuksu
    Pages 17-26
  4. Toolbox of Consulting Methods

    • Jeremy David Curuksu
    Pages 27-41
  5. The Client-Consultant Interaction

    • Jeremy David Curuksu
    Pages 43-59
  6. The Structure of Consulting Cases

    • Jeremy David Curuksu
    Pages 61-71
  7. Principles of Data Science: Primer

    • Jeremy David Curuksu
    Pages 73-86
  8. Principles of Data Science: Advanced

    • Jeremy David Curuksu
    Pages 87-127
  9. Principles of Strategy: Primer

    • Jeremy David Curuksu
    Pages 129-152
  10. Principles of Strategy: Advanced

    • Jeremy David Curuksu
    Pages 153-169
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 171-185

About this book

This book is a “scientific” introduction to management consulting that covers elementary and more advanced concepts, such as strategy and client-relationship. It discusses the emerging role of information technologies in consulting activities and introduces the essential tools in data science, assuming no technical background. Drawing on extensive literature reviews with more than 200 peer reviewed articles, reports, books and surveys referenced, this book has at least four objectives: to be scientific, modern, complete  and concise. An interactive version of some sections (industry snapshots, method toolbox) is freely accessible at econsultingdata.com.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Amazon Web Services, Inc, New York, NY, USA

    Jeremy David Curuksu

About the author

Jeremy David Curuksu is a data scientist, management consultant and researcher. He worked at the strategy firm Innosight, at the Chief Analytics Office of IBM and at Amazon Web Services. He holds a PhD in bioinformatics and was a research scientist for 6 years in applied mathematics at the Polytechnic School of Lausanne in Switzerland and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US. He published multiple first-author peer reviewed articles and blog posts and presented 50+ seminars in data science and management consulting at MIT and at Harvard University. He is now advising Amazon’s clients and working on solving their business issues through the use of artificial intelligence.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Data Driven

  • Book Subtitle: An Introduction to Management Consulting in the 21st Century

  • Authors: Jeremy David Curuksu

  • Series Title: Management for Professionals

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70229-2

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70228-5Published: 15 June 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09941-1Published: 25 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70229-2Published: 06 June 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2192-8096

  • Series E-ISSN: 2192-810X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 185

  • Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Business Consulting, Big Data/Analytics

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eBook USD 54.99
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Softcover Book USD 69.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 99.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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