Big Data: What Will You Do for an Encore?
There has been a lot of focus on the first big value-add insight one gets from Big Data analytics, but not a lot on why you should keep on going after that. To keep deriving value from Big Data, I…
There has been a lot of focus on the first big value-add insight one gets from Big Data analytics, but not a lot on why you should keep on going after that. To keep deriving value from Big Data, I…
Anecdotal evidence and analyst firm surveys suggest a big surge in demand for Hadoop experts. In fact, the demand far outstrips the supply. So what should IT do if the requisite experts aren’t available? First, let’s consider the reason for…
At a recent conference, Dave Turek of IBM asserted that the future computing architecture would have data rather than computation “at the center.” What he is saying, I believe, is that enterprise IT-related differentiation and competitive advantage now derives from…
As I was at a vendor conference recently that brought this to mind, I will write on something that is less about the vendor and more about what I view as major opportunities for software technology going forward. In this…
Increasing numbers of IT shops are considering, and in some cases doing, “Hadoop in the enterprise.” That is, they are more or less implementing the file systems and data-access mechanisms (Hadoop, MapReduce) of a cloud provider, and using them to…
The good news: At a recent IBM conference on Big Data, users confirmed a growing body of evidence from sources such as Sloan Management Review, showing that success in Big Data does deliver bottom-line, competitive-advantage benefits. The bad news: There…
A recent Sloan Management Review continuation of their studies of successful Big Data practitioners highlights an often-misunderstood strategy of these “best-practice” users. Specifically, Analytical Innovators (as SMR calls them) value reducing costs less than several other foci: Gaining customer knowledge…
A recent post in MIT Technology Review about the use of Big Data in the 2012 election offers fascinating insights into what works – and what doesn’t. Both political parties had operations specifically designed to glean new insights about voters…
As sentiment analysis continues to attract organizations’ strategic attention as an effective way to understand the customer, a new danger emerges – that organizations will simply gather up initial results and use them to fine-tune present strategies. For example, banks…
For the last couple of years, IT shops abetted by vendors and consultants like Aberdeen Group and Forrester Research have been focusing on achieving “agility” in the use of analytics and business intelligence via self-service capabilities. The idea is that…