Understanding Big Data
WHAT CAN OUR ORGANIZATION LEARN FROM AMAZON, NETFLIX, FACEBOOK, AND GOOGLE?
30-sec. pitch
It seems to be a really big deal, but how do we separate the hype from the reality?
OVERVIEW
To be sure, Big Data—the massive amounts of largely unstructured information flying at us faster than ever—offers tremendous promise. Unfortunately, there’s just as much hype and confusion around the topic. As a result, many chief execs are justifiably weary of the subject. Few want to spend millions of dollars on another failed “IT project.”
What to do?
In this talk, I highlight the main points from my 2013 book Too Big to Ignore.
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OUTCOMES
What Attendees Will Learn
In this talk, I answer the following questions:
- Forget all of the jargon and technical terms. In plain English, just what is Big Data, anyway?
- What are its major characteristics?
- How does it differ from traditional enterprise data?
- Which companies have pulled ahead from the rest and what can we learn from them??
- Is data really the new oil?
- What are some of Big Data’s biggest opportunities?
- What about the pitfalls (re: privacy and security concerns, the limitations of data, etc.)?
- What’s on the horizon?