Friday, January 31, 2014

Big Data sophistication comes in stages

Big Data is a huge opportunity for media companies, but media companies, in general, are still far away from extracting maximum benefit from a Big Data strategy. If a Big Data strategy could be broken down like a Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs pyramid, media companies’ level would fall somewhere in the middle, between the information and knowledge stages.

In order to reach the wisdom stage, media companies need to embrace the opportunities from a Big Data strategy, invest in technologies and training in order to leverage the investment, and finally, extract wisdom from the data in order to improve processes such as customer service and product development using this new-found wisdom.

Although massive amounts of data have been stored and accessed for decades, the Big Data buzz has been rapidly growing in business lexicon for only a few years. Some of the drivers of the buzz are the expanding mass of data and the general business awareness that the Big Data disruption must be addressed. 


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