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# Four Big Data-Related Questions
- URL: https://www.philsimon.com/four-big-data-related-questions/
- Published: 2016-01-28T15:33:56.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-04T21:28:03.000Z
- Description: A four-part series on whether organizations need to adopt formal data strategies.
- Author: Phil Simon
- Tags: Big Data, Hadoop, Too Big to Ignore

It's never been more critical to make data-based decisions—a key point in *Too Big to Ignore*. But where does an organization start? And is such a thing as a formal *data strategy* needed?

To this end, I recently penned a four-part series for SAS:

- [Do organizations need to adopt formal data strategies?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/datamanagement/2016/01/05/organizations-need-adopt-formal-data-strategies/?ref=philsimon.com)
- [What does an effective data strategy look like?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/datamanagement/2016/01/12/effective-data-strategy-look-like/?ref=philsimon.com)
- [Can an effective data strategy help an organization build a sustainable competitive advantage?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/datamanagement/2016/01/20/can-effective-data-strategy-help-organization-build-sustainable-competitive-advantage/?ref=philsimon.com)
- [Where does Hadoop fit into an effective data strategy?](https://dlvr.it/KLMpzY?ref=philsimon.com)

Have at it.