%0 Journal Article %T Basic Analytical Tools Application in Business to Addressing Consumer Behaviors, Teambuilding, and Necessity %A Jos¨¦ Carlos-Arias %J Business Intelligence Journal %D 2011 %I %X This paper investigates three of the commonly-used analytical tools and concepts that are used to help effectuate decisions in a business environment. The types of analytical models that are investigated in this paper are probability theory and statistics, utility theory and game theory. Through investigating these tools in this three-tired framework, the reader has a greater comprehension of how analytical tools can be used to accomplish various reforms within a business or the business sector as a whole. Through addressing the quantitative methods of business, those in management and cost-reassessment programs can better understand the forces that are at work in their respective departments and within the business environment as a whole. %K Analytical %K Tools %K Business %K Statistics %K Applied %U http://www.saycocorporativo.com/saycoUK/BIJ/journal/Vol4No1/Article_7.pdf