In the mid 1980s systems integration, visionary Vivek Ranadivé broke the real-time information barrier and helped to digitize Wall Street. With his international bestseller The Power of Now, he helped usher in the real-time business revolution of the late 1990s. Now with this groundbreaking new book, Ranadivé brings news of the next big leap in business systems evolution-The Power to Predict.Real-time business gives companies the ability to monitor and react to changes and address problems as they occurred. But no matter how sophisticated their information-gathering and data mining systems are, they're still playing catch-up. In The Power to Predict, Ranadivé forecasts the next step in achieving breakthrough business success, a new approach he calls Predictive BusinessTM: the ability to anticipate business problems and opportunities and to act preemptively. Predictive BusinessTM allows companies to take real-time information correlate it with historical patterns, and recognize events that hold tremendous profit potential.In an effort to stay ahead of the curve, a handful of companies have been quietly making the transition from reactive organizations to proactive enterprises suited for a customer-centric business paradigm.

Ranadive takes us inside a number of these companies-including Procter & Gamble, Pirelli, Harrah's, Gallo, Telitalia, Wal-Mart, and 7-Eleven-to show how they are making that transition, and are able to:Identify and prepare for problems, changes, and events with near-perfect accuracy-before they happenAnticipate customer needs and be ready satisfy them the minute they emergeBe prepared sudden events such as a labor strike, power outage, sudden spike in demand for a product or service, or a competitor's innovative product rolloutIn The Power to Predict you'll discover how any company can accomplish these goals, by continuously matching, second-by-second, real-time events with historical patterns. Just as importantly, you'll get expert insights and advice on what it will take to align your company's processes, technology, and culture into an unstoppable, world-class predictive-business enterprise.A quiet revolution is underway that will forever change the way business is doneA handful of visionary companies are scattered around the globe who have learned to exploit powerful new business systems technologies that are to conventional real-time business systems what the Internet was to the fax machine. So intent are those firms on not losing the competitive advantage afforded them by this new development that virtually nothing about it has been permitted to leak to the business press-until now.In the Power to Predict, real-time business pioneer Vivek Ranadivé breaks the code of silence to bring you news from the frontlines of the "Predictive Business"" revolution, and, more importantly, to show you what you'll need to do to prepare your company for the shape of things to come.Ranadivé fills you in on how Harrah's, Pirelli, Procter & Gamble, Gallo, and other leading-edge firms are making the transition from an event-driven real-time business model to a predictive one. And he offers his expert advice on what you'll need to do to:Transform you company from one that reacts to one that predicts and prepares with extraordinary accuracyKnow what customers will want and be ready with a plan to satisfy them the minute those needs ariseAnticipate and address problems in your supply chain, customer service, sales, and other key functions-before they occurAlign your processes, technologies and culture in a proactive, turn-on-a-dime customer-centric enterprise and trounce the competition.