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HiPPOs, Presidential Election and Google…Oh My!
I participated in a panel at the recent Techonomy 2012 conference in Tucson, AZ on a subject titled “Data Is The New Science.” Andy McAfee, who had written an article titled “The Big Data Revolution”...
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Big Data Business Model Maturity Chart
Customers ask me: How far can big data take us from a business perspective? What could the ultimate end point look like? How do I compare to others with respect to my organization’s adoption of big...
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I spend my time working with customers trying to figure out where and how to start their big data journey. Phase one of the discussion is trying to explain what big data is and why it’s important....
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Nurturing Serendipity in the Age of Data-driven Decisions
Recently I had an interesting discussion with my good friend Jonathan Abel. Jonathan heads up the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University, where Jonathan and...
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Big Data Starting Path Traps
At a recent CIO Executive Summit with over 90 CIO’s in Chicago, I stated that I thought that we were entering Phase 3 of the Big Data journey, where: Phase 1 was the Big Data Educational phase, with...
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Big Data Year In Review
As 2012 comes to an end and we start looking at 2013, I wanted to share what I learned over the past year. Organizations Are Starting To Move Down The Big Data Maturity Curve In 2012, organizations...
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Magnifying Your Analytic Insights Through The Lens Of Another Industry’s Best...
Hello 2013! I hope that everyone had a great holiday season. As we launch into 2013, one of the things that I see consistently is the opportunity to share analytic best practices across different...
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Prioritization Matrix: Aligning Business and IT On The Big Data Journey
One key challenge to a successful Big Data journey is gaining consensus and alignment between the business and IT stakeholders in identifying the initial big data business use cases that 1) deliver...
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The Big Data Storymap
I wanted to share some recent work that we have been doing inside EMC Global Services, to create a “Big Data Storymap” that would help clients understand the big data journey in a pictorial format. The...
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2013 Big Data Outlook
Since I previously wrote about the key big data developments from 2012 (Big Data Year In Review), it’s now time to look ahead to 2013. As most folks believe, 2013 should be a “break out” year for big...
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2013: The Year of Big Data Tool Enhancements Is Underway
I mentioned in a previous blog, “2013 Big Data Outlook”, that I thought that 2013 would be the year of significant big data tool innovations. And it didn’t take too long for that prediction to come...
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The Next Frontier: Solution Engineering – Part I
The trouble with big data is that there is no one single, shiny solution. One can’t just install Hadoop or predictive analytics or an appliance, and say that they have a big data solution. Our...
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The Next Frontier: Solution Engineering – Part II
In my previous blog, I discussed the process for engineering business solutions. This blog will go into more detail on Step 3 of the process: Brainstorming the impact of big data on your key business...
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Leveraging Big Data To Transform Your Business Model
The North American video game market was in a massive recession in 1985. Revenues that had peaked at $3.2 billion in 1983, fell to $100 million by 1985 (a drop of almost 97 percent). The crash almost...
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Learnings from the Field
I recently moderated a CIO Summit in Philadelphia on the topic of “Big Data: Moving from Monitoring to Optimization.” Participating in the discussion were about 30 CIOs from very large to more...
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Optimizing the Customer Lifecycle With Customer Insights
One of the more interesting aspects of big data are the novel insights that organizations can gather about their customers’ behaviors, tendencies and propensities, and how those insights can rewire an...
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The “4 Ms” of Big Data
By far, the below Big Data Business Model Maturity Index generates the most discussion whenever I talk to customers about where and how to start their big data journeys. This chart gets the creative...
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The Liberating “What If” Analytics Cycle
Ah, the anguish of not knowing the “right” answers. Organizations struggle with the process of determining the “right” answers, resulting in lots of wasted debates and divisive arguments regarding...
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Recent Big Data Trends
Hey, I’m back. Sorry that I’ve not written in a while, but I have a good excuse. I’ve been working on my new book, “Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business”, and that’s been eating up...
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Guiding the Envisioning Process: Prioritization Matrix Worksheets
Now that I’ve submitted my last chapter to the publisher for my upcoming “Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business,” it’s time to get back on the blog trail. This blog covers a couple of...
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