Random House New Releases - Business & Economics - Information Management

The Healthcare Cure by Jeff Margolis

2011-11-22T00:30:00-05:00

The Healthcare Cure How Sharing Information Can Make the System Work Better
Written by Jeff Margolis

Trade Paperback, 226 pages | Prometheus Books | Health & Fitness - Health Care Issues; Social Science - Disease & Health Issues; Business & Economics - Information Management | $21.00 | 978-1-61614-487-6 (1-61614-487-4)

More than 250 million Americans have health insurance coverage. Yet the majority of these healthcare consumers have little understanding of how the healthcare system works or their role in it. They often experience confusion and frustration when they try to navigate their way through the tangled web of benefits and care. In this lucidly presented and forward-looking book, the author proposes a needed and workable solution to the challenge of providing affordable health care for all Americans. Margolis takes a fresh look at the healthcare system from the perspective of various industry participants, to reveal how the system can be adjusted to produce better results by combining information technology with the right incentives. Drawing on real-world examples from other industries such as retail and automotive that consumers can understand, Margolis describes how a better system can be designed and is in fact within our grasp. As both a healthcare executive and a healthcare consumer living with a severe chronic illness, Margolis offers a unique perspective that combines both management and consumer viewpoints. He understands health care and is able to evaluate it from the outside and inside as an overall system. His vision for health care is called Integrated Healthcare Management (IHM) and it employs a systems science approach to optimize the coordination of benefits and care to ultimately provide more value for every healthcare dollar spent. IHM is practical because it builds upon our healthcare model today and describes specific steps to create the system of tomorrow—affordably and sustainably. Both professionals working in health care and members of the public interested in a healthcare solution will find the insights in this book informative and useful.

Super Crunchers by Ian Ayres

2008-08-26T00:30:00-05:00

Super Crunchers Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart
Written by Ian Ayres

Trade Paperback, 320 pages | Bantam | Business & Economics - Information Management; Self Help - Success; Business & Economics - Management | $16.00 | 978-0-553-38473-4 (0-553-38473-2)

An international sensation—and still the talk of the relevant blogosphere—this Wall Street Journal and New York Times business bestseller examines the “power” in numbers. Today more than ever, number crunching affects your life in ways you might not even imagine. Intuition and experience are no longer enough to make the grade. In order to succeed—even survive—in our data-based world, you need to become statistically literate.

Cutting-edge organizations are already crunching increasingly larger databases to find the unseen connections among seemingly unconnected things to predict human behavior with staggeringly accurate results. From Internet sites like Google and Amazon that use filters to keep track of your tastes and your purchasing history, to insurance companies and government agencies that every day make decisions affecting your life, the brave new world of the super crunchers is happening right now. No one who wants to stay ahead of the curve should make another keystroke without reading Ian Ayres’s engrossing and enlightening book.

Super Crunchers by Ian Ayres

2007-08-28T00:30:00-05:00

Super Crunchers Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Written by Ian Ayres

Hardcover, 272 pages | Bantam | Business & Economics - Information Management; Self Help - Success; Business & Economics - Management | $26.00 | 978-0-553-80540-6 (0-553-80540-1)

Why would a casino try and stop you from losing? How can a mathematical formula find your future spouse? Would you know if a statistical analysis blackballed you from a job you wanted?

Today, number crunching affects your life in ways you might never imagine. In this lively and groundbreaking new book, economist Ian Ayres shows how today's best and brightest organizations are analyzing massive databases at lightening speed to provide greater insights into human behavior. They are the Super Crunchers. From internet sites like Google and Amazon that know your tastes better than you do, to a physician's diagnosis and your child's education, to boardrooms and government agencies, this new breed of decision makers are calling the shots. And they are delivering staggeringly accurate results. How can a football coach evaluate a player without ever seeing him play? Want to know whether the price of an airline ticket will go up or down before you buy? How can a formula outpredict wine experts in determining the best vintages? Super crunchers have the answers. In this brave new world of equation versus expertise, Ayres shows us the benefits and risks, who loses and who wins, and how super crunching can be used to help, not manipulate us.

Gone are the days of solely relying on intuition to make decisions. No businessperson, consumer, or student who wants to stay ahead of the curve should make another keystroke without reading Super Crunchers.

Super Crunchers by James Lurie

2007-08-28T00:30:00-05:00

Super Crunchers Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Written by Ian Ayres
Read by James Lurie

Abridged Audiobook Download | Random House Audio | Business & Economics - Information Management; Computers - Database Management - Data Mining; Social Science | $14.98 | 978-0-7393-5473-5 (0-7393-5473-6)

Super Crunchers by Ian Ayres

2007-08-28T00:30:00-05:00

Super Crunchers Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Written by Ian Ayres

eBook | Bantam | Business & Economics - Information Management; Self Help - Success; Business & Economics - Management | $13.99 | 978-0-553-90413-0 (0-553-90413-2)

Super Crunchers by Michael Kramer

2007-08-28T00:30:00-05:00

Super Crunchers Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Written by Ian Ayres
Read by Michael Kramer

Unabridged Audiobook Download | Random House Audio | Business & Economics - Information Management | $20.00 | 978-1-4159-4122-5 (1-4159-4122-X)

Why would a casino try to stop a gambler from losing? How can a mathematical formula find your future spouse? Would you know if statistical analysis blackballed you from a job you wanted?

Economist Ian Ayres has spent the better part of his career examining the power in numbers. Decisions used to be made by traditional experts based on experience, intuition, and trial and error. Nowadays, cutting-edge organizations are crunching ever-larger databases to find answers. Today’s super crunchers are providing greater insights into human behavior than ever before–and predicting the future with staggeringly accurate results.

In this lively and groundbreaking audiobook, Ayres takes us behind the scenes into the bold new world of today’s super crunchers. The author sweeps over a dazzling array of topics with strange-but-true facts, wry wit, and a raconteur’s talent for the fascinating anecdote. Entertaining, enlightening, and absolutely essential, Super Crunchers is an audiobook that no businessperson, consumer, or student–statistically, that’s everyone!–should make another decision without first listening to. Thinking-by-numbers is the new way to be smart.

From the Compact Disc edition.

The Geek Gap by Bill Pfleging

2006-06-01T00:30:00-05:00

The Geek Gap Why Business And Technology Professionals Don't Understand Each Other And Why They Need Each Other to Survive
Written by Bill Pfleging

Hardcover, 251 pages | Prometheus Books | Business & Economics - Information Management; Computers - Information Technology; Business & Economics - Business Communication | $26.99 | 978-1-59102-415-6 (1-59102-415-3)

Business managers (suits) and technology professionals (geeks) have become warring camps in too many companies. While both groups have no trouble following the lingo of their own specialties, when they have to communicate with each other, neither side fully understands — or wants to understand — the other. And that’s a big problem in an increasingly technology-dependent business environment where success depends on the smooth integration of both business savvy and technological expertise.
Bill Pfleging — a respected computer and Web consultant — and Minda Zetlin — a veteran business writer — explore, in this insightful, witty, and very instructive book, the culture clash that pervades nearly every business-technology interaction. The Geek Gap provides members of both camps a practical guide to working together effectively. Using many real-world examples, the authors vividly illustrate the consequences in time, money, careers, and even lives when these separate cultures fail to communicate.
The authors provide practical solutions for building trust between business and computer professionals. The book is filled with tips aimed at geeks and suits to help each group understand the other, communicate in what amounts to a foreign language, and get what they need to do their jobs effectively. The authors profile companies and individual executives who have successfully bridged the gap by conducting events that bring the two groups together, switching jobs from one area to the other, creating whole new careers as "go-betweens," and much, much more.
This is the first book to directly address issues of communication and understanding between business and technology people. The Geek Gap — in identifying this problem and providing numerous practical and workable solutions — is an indispensable guide for all.

Random House New Releases - Business & Economics - Information Management

The Healthcare Cure by Jeff Margolis

The Healthcare Cure How Sharing Information Can Make the System Work BetterWritten by Jeff Margolis

Super Crunchers by Ian Ayres

Super Crunchers Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be SmartWritten by Ian Ayres

Super Crunchers by Ian Ayres

Super Crunchers Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be SmartWritten by Ian Ayres

Super Crunchers by James Lurie

Super Crunchers Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be SmartWritten by Ian Ayres Read by James Lurie

Super Crunchers by Ian Ayres

Super Crunchers Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be SmartWritten by Ian Ayres

Super Crunchers by Michael Kramer

Super Crunchers Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be SmartWritten by Ian Ayres Read by Michael Kramer

The Geek Gap by Bill Pfleging

The Geek Gap Why Business And Technology Professionals Don't Understand Each Other And Why They Need Each Other to SurviveWritten by Bill Pfleging

The Healthcare Cure How Sharing Information Can Make the System Work Better
Written by Jeff Margolis

Super Crunchers Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart
Written by Ian Ayres

Super Crunchers Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Written by Ian Ayres

Super Crunchers Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Written by Ian Ayres
Read by James Lurie

Super Crunchers Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Written by Ian Ayres

Super Crunchers Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Written by Ian Ayres
Read by Michael Kramer

The Geek Gap Why Business And Technology Professionals Don't Understand Each Other And Why They Need Each Other to Survive
Written by Bill Pfleging