"Quantitative literacy" for managers: How to develop basic analytical skills and be a more informed consumer of data. We're moving beyond the information age into the quantitative information age. This book promises to become your "quantitative literacy" guide - helping you develop the analytical skills needed in today's world of work, no matter your role or experience. As a successful manager today, you need to be a more informed consumer of data, more conversant with analytical thinking and methods, and better at working with quantitative information. In Keeping Up with the Quants, authors and professors Tom Davenport and Jin-ho Kim offer the tools to enhance your thinking and decision-making. You'll walk away with a basic understanding of today's necessary skills including: How to formulate a hypothesis; How to gather and analyze relevant data; How to interpret and communicate results; How to develop habits of quantitative thinking; and, How to deal effectively with the "quants" in your organization. If you don't have a business degree or you aren't comfortable with statistics and quant methods, this book is for you. Keeping Up with the Quants will give you the new skills you need to compete - and succeed.

Thomas H. Davenport is the President’s Distinguished Chair at Babson College and a research fellow at the MIT Center for Digital Business. He is also a senior advisor to Deloitte Analytics and the cofounder and research director of the International Institute for Analytics. Davenport is the coauthor of Competing on Analytics and Analytics at Work. This is the seventeenth book he has authored, coauthored, or edited.

Jinho Kim is a professor of business and statistics at the Korea National Defense University and the research director of the KNDU Lab for Analytics Research. He holds a PhD from the Wharton School and is the author of six books published in Korea, including the bestselling 100 Common Senses in Statistics and Freak Statistics. He has developed and run an educational program for building individuals’ analytical skills. His current research focuses on the use of analytical methods to address various issues in business and society.