Preface

Coauthor Venkat Reddy Konasani and I, Shailendra Kadre, both work for Hewlett-Packard in Bangalore, India. He and I have been friends for a while, long before he started working for Hewlett-Packard. I had been becoming more and more interested in business analytics, using it in my work and thinking about doing a book on the subject. I was aware that he was a trainer in business analytics, and I attended a few of his training sessions. I was really impressed with his effective, simple presentation style, not to mention the content of his lectures. Here, I realized, was the perfect partner for the book I had in mind. It didn’t take long for us to decide to join forces to write this book.

But before starting work on this volume, we spent ...

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