Our blog editor extraordinaire Shelly Goodin brings you tips and information on technical content from our books that you can use immediately in your work. But what if you’re not there yet? What if you want to start with a 50,000-foot level view of analytics overall? Or learn how forecasting can help your business become more efficient? Or understand the kinds of metrics you can analyze in the first place?

Enter our business books. Written by experts in the field, these books give you the big picture, the understanding of how analytics and analytical methods work, why they’re important to an organization, and how you can think about your work within that context.

We’ve had a spate of excellent new releases lately, and I encourage you to take a look:

Predictive Business Analytics: Forward-Looking Capabilities to Improve Business Performance addresses the emergence of predictive business analytics and discusses how it can help redefine the way your organization operates.

Killer Analytics: Top 20 Metrics Missing from Your Balance Sheet shows how analytics are being applied to measure components of business performance that traditionally are not measured—such as social networks, sustainability, risk, project management, culture, innovation, and employee satisfaction.

Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment: Creating a More Efficient Supply Chain is your primer for advanced inventory management; you’ll gain a good understanding of why optimized inventory and replenishment are important for improving your organization’s bottom line.

Demand-Driven Forecasting: A Structured Approach to Forecasting, Second Edition offers a detailed look at improving the forecasting process to better meet customer demands.

Health Analytics: Gaining the Insights to Transform Health Care provides an analytics road map for health industry leaders.

These are just our newest releases, and you can see they cover a wide variety of subjects and industries. See more here. Get the big picture, and use it to gain a better understanding of the analytics landscape.