Big Data & Analytics

This category is Big Data & Analytics, exploring data-driven strategies, predictive analytics, and business intelligence. It features expert insights on harnessing big data for decision-making, innovation, and gaining a competitive edge in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Analysis Paralysis: How “Big Data” May Finally Spell the End of Make-Believe Numbers

By Chris Surdak  In this article, Chris Surdak speaks from experience and argues that financial models are not used to present scientific or mathematical fact...

Unpacking the ‘Big Data’ Skill Set: It’s not Just – or Even Mostly –...

By Mihnea Moldoveanu Big Data presents challenges and opportunities that need a new set of skills. Current formulations of the Big Data skill set are...

The Ingenuity Challenge: What Big Data Really Means for Big Business

By Mihnea Moldoveanu Big Data presents a unique challenge to big business, one that intelligence as we now think of it cannot solve alone. Big...

What It Takes to Succeed with Big Data

By Tom Davenport Big data is something that everyone in business needs to know about. Below, Tom Davenport discusses how organisations can harness the power...

Big Data Takes On Big Weather

By Djeevan Schiferli, IBM Some European cities are turning to Big Data to not only predict the weather and its potential impact, but also to...

The Real-World Use of Big Data: How innovative enterprises extract value from uncertain data

By Rich Hume In industries throughout the world, executives are recognising the opportunities associated with Big Data. Despite what seems like unrelenting media attention, it...

Big Data Meets Big Brother: The Privacy Risks of Big Data

By Viktor Mayer-Schönberger & Kenneth Cukier In Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier...

Turning Talent Data into Talent Intelligence

By Nik Kinley & Shlomo Ben-Hur Talent management is built upon talent intelligence—the understanding that businesses have of the skills, expertise and qualities of their...

‘Big Data’ vs. Quality Information: The Peculiarities of Information Markets

By Miklos Sarvary Big data versus quality information ‘Big Data’ is the new buzzword of today’s business world. Management consultants, corporate strategists and IT executives...

Business Process Excellence: A Prerequisite for Managing Big Data

By Karl-Heinz Streibich The digitization of both the commercial and social worlds has blurred any boundaries separating them and is fundamentally changing the way we...