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How Will the "Age of Big Data" Affect Management?
Summing up: How do we avoid losing useful knowledge in a seemingly endless flood of data? Jim Heskett's readers offer some wise suggestions. What do you think?
Summing up: Will Access to Big Data Further Enable Fact-Based Decision Making or � Analysis Paralysis?
"To T. S. Eliot's prescient words 'Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?' we might now add, 'Where is the information we have lost in data?'"
That's Paul Nicholas' reaction after reading most of the responses to this month's column. It's not a bad "sense of the meeting," in which many contributors offered suggestions to managers wishing to get the most out of so-called big data and avoid paying the price of paralysis in the process.
The challenges Big Data pose for managers include "identifying which data are relevant" (Subrata Chakraborty) and "seeing through the woods to know what to use and what not" (Pieter J de Beer). Scott Waller expressed the fear that "the age of Big Data seems to be arriving at the time of death for the Big Thinker." Gerald Nanninga cautioned us that "the big risk is that it gives executives a false sense of comfort." Clifford Francis Baker added, "My concern is primarily focused on the possibility of complacency � data derived from data analytics must � be handled with care." Mok Tuck Sung commented that "technology and knowledge advancement have again developed faster than the managers' and business owners' capabilities to leverage its usefulness in their decision making process." Philippe Gouamba reminded us that "perfection is but an illusion � A successful outcome is almost never the result of perfect information."
Among the suggestions for managers were these:
- Help "data analyzers consume and translate the data" (Scott Kemme, who also suggested an alternative title for the column, which I instead used above),
- Know "what not to look at." (Phillip Clark)
- Work to reduce turnover among business analysts who "tend to be lower level employees and have a high turnover," creating a "losing battle" through the loss of "institutional data knowledge." (Kim Kraemer)
- Avoid the belief that "whatever is new will solve their problems," concentrating on the appropriate application of Big Data. (Seena Sharp)
- Avoid allowing Big Data to remain the "purview of the select few" only for use for one-off and one-time decisions." (Jonathan Spier)
- Maintain the attitude that "fast is better than perfect." (Mike Flanagan)
- Avoid the temptation of harvesting just the "'low hanging fruit' rather than waiting for the analysts to gain understanding (presumably of the decisions to be made)." (Sean O'Riordain)
- Rather than concentrating on the data, focus on "being able to formulate the right questions to ask at precisely the right moment." (Edward Hare)
That's quite a list.
Tom Dolembo drew a picture of direct process control in which decisions have to be made "in the flow" in situations where there isn't time for conventional analysis (at least by humans). Is this a glimpse into the future of decision-making (without analysis paralysis) based on big data for a widening range of decisions or is it confined to a special set of conditions? Will access to Big Data further enable fact-based decision making or � analysis paralysis? What do you think?
Original article
Ideas and trends converge from time to time in a way that suggests the possible shape of the future. Sometimes I think I can comprehend what they may mean. But other times I know I need help. This is one of those times.
Just two decades ago, we didn't have Google and other information sources; storage constraints would not have permitted Google to provide everyday access to the "world's information." If we had had the information, we couldn't have accessed it effectively anyway. Email systems were not widely available, let alone mobile devices with capacity to access the data. Now the capacity to store and access information through cloud computing is so great that we are entering a post-Google era in which new organizations like Factual (founded by a former Google employee) have set as their goal that of providing access to all of the world's facts. Presumably this means data such as the location of every factory in the world, data that has not already been massaged and spun. Some facts have to be acquired and organized. Other facts are generated by so-called digital sensors operating worldwide in industrial equipment, autos, and the like. By linking the sensors, an "industrial Internet" can be created.
These trends appear to have "opportunity" written all over them, particularly for those who are training now for jobs in data analytics. In addition to less wasteful marketing efforts (we should be able to know, for example, "which half" of advertising is effective, thereby making an old marketing saw obsolete), they should produce more effective business strategies and inject added certainty into the appraisal of opportunities for new business startups. Furthermore, analytics (not the data) should be a source of continuing competitive advantage. In his new book, Charles Duhigg describes how the retailer Target uses data on consumption patterns to discern and address promotions to pregnant customers, perhaps even before they've announced their pregnancy to friends (and Target competitors). This is particularly important because pregnancy is one of those life events associated with significant shifts in consumption habits.
A problem is that the shortage of experts in data analytics (some call them "data whisperers") is so acute that it may be years before a sufficient supply can be trained. The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that up to 190,000 are needed now in the US, along with 1.5 million managers capable of using their work. The shortage appears to be growing along with the potential for competitive advantage associated with data analytics.
This all raises many questions. Will the age of big data eliminate most or all uncertainty from business decisions for those most able to make effective use of "all the facts in the world?" Will it fuel the next "gold rush" for talent in a quest for competitive advantage? Will analytics, as well as the supply of analytics-savvy managers, so badly lag "big data" that it will only lead to confusion and misguided decisions? Or is this just the latest management fad? How, if at all, should this affect education for management? What do you think?
To read more:
Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do and How to Change It , Random House, 2012.
Quentin Hardy, Just the Facts. Yes, All of Them, The New York Times, March 25, 2012.
Steve Lohr, The Age of Big Data, The New York Times, February 12, 2012.
The challenge—and opportunity—of 'big data', McKinsey Global Institute, May 2011.
- Rob Houck
- Partner, Eaton & Van Winkle
http://falling-walls.com/lectures/anastasia-ailamaki/transcript/ is the link to a lecture at the 2011 Falling Walls Conference in Berlin on this subject. Note - all lectures are strictly limited to 15 minutes, hence the brevity.
- Scott Kemme
- Senior Business Analyst, ClickFox
Perhaps a better frame is "Will access to Big Data further enable fact-based decision making or it's polar opposite, analysis paralysis?"
Beyond the need for analytical resources is also the need for tools to help consume and translate big data into understandable and, more importantly, actionable analyses that can drive change into the organization. The sheer size of Big Data necessitates that kind of assistance.
An additional benefit of such tools are they may enable a broader population of data analyzers than might otherwise be possible by the way such data is presented to the end user.
If you help the data analyzers consume and translate the data, management can then assume the expected role of decision making rather than analytical support.
- Tom Dolembo
- Founder, New North Institute
Our medical device injection molders were linked via sensors to each machine, terrabytes of data, and customers could alter or vary processing at will, directly for each shot to each machine in a lights out class 10,000 environment. Material costs for the biosorbables were $1500/kilo, mistakes costly. A world of such sensors offers a vision of direct process control, not just analysis. In our case, there wasn't time to analyze, decisions had to be made in the flow, while the plastic was forming. We interfaced with machines in China to synchronize changes. Data saturation definitely creates one world, one great algorithm. Data became obsolete almost as soon as it is created. The butterfly is still a butterfly, no matter what the data says, distinct, unique.
I suppose the great opportunity question is how this rolling sea changes us as customers? What we found is that every process is really unique, mass production is a nineteenth century mythology (imprecise fits, imprecise data). It never existed. If we can have unique products that change as we do, be the color and do things we want them to do, before we want them to do them, be platforms for data transformation, not just appliances, we're closer. Can a car be a coffee maker and a toaster and a toothbrush and a sensory experience, data transforming transportation into something else? We have developed markets for discrete products that only do discrete things, just go to any garage sale, obsolete needs populate our trash. Can we own a Zip Clip that drives us to work or entertains us keeps us warm and feeds us and clothes us when and where and how we want? Not really that hard to do. Think inside the flow of the data, the data itself is a distraction.
- Phillip Clark
- Clark & Associates
Interesting topic. I will go back to a mantra I provided meteorologist many years ago when we became flooded with data from around the world.... We have entered the age where the smart person will be the one who knows what not to look at. You cannot make deadlines or good decisions looking at everything.
- Pete DeLisi
- President, Organizational Synergies
As you suggest, it is easy to get caught up in the latest technological trend. It's hard to argue that data and information are bad, but what price do they come with and what value do they provide to the organization?
Analytics is not an end in itself, but rather a means to some result or goal that the organization has. By assessing analytic projects in terms of their contribution to corporate goals, we can be assured that we are using this new resource in the most optimal way.
- Kim Kraemer
- Data Architect, USG Corporation
I don't see these trends are creating new problems. They are just growing in impact (like Morgans Law for disk space). Today the Business Analysts as well as Data Analysts are a great resource for understanding business data. Business Analysts tend to be lower level employees and have a high turnover, so the institutional data knowledge is lost in many cases. So its a losing battle.
- Hugh Quick
- Home, None
There has been more 'data' than any individual can absorb for a long time. We will continue to rely on 'experts' to sift it for us. The means of communication have changed but there has been too much data for ages.
- Prof. Subrata Chakraborty
- Retired Professor
Challenge of listening to what data reveal had been there for long. True, in today's world access to data and information have improved manifold. While this has made life easy in one sense, it has also made life much too difficult in another sense. Identifying which data are relevant is in itself has become a critical challenge. Hardly any guidelines are available for this. Secondly, interpretation has assumed much greater significance than analysis. One can analyze a set of data using some standard tool or method, which is least of the problem today with advanced software packages.What matters crucially is the interpretation as that, and that alone, takes one to the path of action. There is no way to ascertain with any degree of definitiveness that one's interpretation is without a flaw and/or is comprehensive. Therefore, chances are that the same old hit or miss will come to be witnessed although with lot more effort and money spent. To benefit from large data, good guidelines for interpretation are called for; which most texts and manuals on the subject of Business Analytics that I know of do not talk about in a big way.
- Pieter J de Beer
- Senior Partner, De Beer & Keulder Legal Practitioners
Data paralysis is a new age common obstacle. With too much info decision makers slow down. Identifying the the crucial data is essential, taking decision fast keeps one in an competitive position. The crux is seeing through the woods to know what to use and what not - I ageree with Scott.
- Seena Sharp
- Executive Director, Sharp Market Intelligence
I expect Big Data to be the next hot business trend, similar to re-engineering, management by walking around, and more. There absolutely is a place for Big Data, but not everyplace.
The problem with new ideas/concepts/phrases is that companies are so anxious to succeed that they believe whatever is new will solve their problems and bring the growth they're seeking.
Like re-engineering, Big Data will be erroneously applied in many companies and will result in poor decisions.
Data is very useful, but it must be recognized as measuring the past. It provides an alert to changes, but because of the time lag and today's constant changes, Big Data may be disinformation.
The popular management saying, "If it can't be measured, it can't be managed," fails to recognize that not everything fits into metrics.
That's the enormous hidden value of market intelligence. It reveals what's changing and emerging - before data can be gathered. That's the source of opportunities, threats, and growth.
Seena Sharp Sharp Market Intelligence Author, Competitive Intelligence Advantage
- Jonathan Spier
- Entrepreneur in Residence, Altos Ventures
As a former CEO of a "big data" software company for the past 7 years, I believe in the opportunity for Big Data to be transformative. The tech industry has spent the last 40+ years digitizing information, and mobile and sensor technologies have only accelerated the trend. We will spend the next 40 years learning to USE all of that information in our businesses.
But to impact management the big challenge is: How can big data become more than just more, well, data at a time when we're all already drowning in data?
For big data to impact management means that it is tied into practical, every day uses. After all, although the long term order of magnitude changes are exciting, what most of us are looking for are near-term ways to make the existing things we do X% more efficient.
In other words, as long as big data really requires armies of "data whisperers", it will remain the purview of the select few for one-off and one-time decisions. When it will get more exciting is when we can bring the fire to the masses by embedding better analytics into many of the things we do in business every day.
- Scott Waller
- VP, M/A/R/C Research
The Age of BIG DATA seems to be arriving at the time of death for the BIG THINKER. I find that the skill and will to consistently apply the implications seen in BIG DATA is sorely lacking in the middle managers and some of the leaders I meet.
Can technology fix that problem?
- Kapil Kumar Sopory
- Company Secretary, SMEC(India) Private Limited
We do not need all data to be subjected to analysis. It is no doubt a fact that data being thrown out is enormous but what is important is to attend only to what is indeed relevant. If it arrives from external sources its value would depend on the standard of the source; data received from unreliable sources cannot be depended upon. Further, time need not be wasted on analysing what is not relevant to the user eventhough the exercise be a great academic effort. That said, rejecting the irrelevant needs focus. We are in a real world of business. Our resouces - time, energy and money - are scarce and have to used very carefully. Once we are serious on this the need for such a large backlog of expert data analytics and the user-managers may not be there. It is neverthelss a hard fact that skills of all sorts are in very short supply; this applies to all work ares and the cases in question are no exception.
- Mike Flanagan
- Purchasing Manager
Agree with Scott kemme (#2) regarding paralysis by analysis. More info comes the more you want, almost like drugs. One has to understand what is important to make a decision and then eventually move on to the next item or challenge. In "Corps Business: The 20 Mangement Principle of the US Marines," the author points out "fast is better than perfect." If you wait for all the info to be in, you will always be behind in solving your issues. Your competition or "enemy" will be ahead of your every move and will leave you in the dust.
- Charles Mwale
- CEO & Founder, Vision Leadership Institute international
This period is indeed a period in which knowledge or data is on the increase. The fact that vast amounts of information is on our finger tips does not gaurantee success in business management. The leader or the manager will still need to utilize instinct or gutt filling, in addittion to the data, to arrive at profitable decisions. This then requires executive intelligence-the ability to connect the dots.
- Michael Rock
- Data Asset Monetization and Productization
The data is all there, it's what to do with it that is the big question. Now that we collected it, how to we make money off of it; gain deeper understanding of our customers from it; enhance our products with it...the Executive office has to decide that a lot of this is unknown, and thats okay. Data is an asset whos value is perhaps limitless. Bets of all, data is the cheapest asset you'll ever have...it's free because it's a byproduct of your current business model. Dive in and let the innovation and ideation exercises begin!
- Sean O'Riordain
- Trinity College, Dublin
To push further on what Scott said, with big data, analysts will be pressured to produce "results", but big data will generally require more time to understand, and only with time will come real understanding. I liken this process to an apprenticeship. every time I meet a new set of data, big or small. Unfortunately managers generally want the "low hanging fruit" rather than waiting for the analysts to gain understanding and the wrong conclusions are drawn from the data and the wrong decisions are then made - but they're based on evidence - so that must be OK then?
As other studies have shown, managers will draw their own conclusions and then get analysts to find the data to back up the conclusions... confirmatory bias...
- Gerald Nanninga
- Founder, Planninga from Nanninga
Analytics has its place, but it may be smaller than the big data vendors want it to be.
The big risk is that it gives executives a false sense of comfort. It breeds the idea that "the computers have it all figured out; it is based on science and math, so what can go wrong?" This lets the executives off the hook on having to think deeply or creatively...or so they believe. So we get lazy in our strategic approach (and pay the price).
I'd rather have a few creative geniuses than a roomful of data whisperers. Some of the advice I've seen from data whisperers is simply awful, because they are so out-of-touch with real people doing real things.
I wrote more about the limits of analytics here: http://planninga-from-nanninga.blogspot.com/2009/05/strategic-planning-analogy-259-quant.html.
- Edward Hare
- Retired Director...Strategy and Planning, Fortune 250 Manufacturer
Bottom line....it IS just the latest management fad. Phillip Clark, as usual, and Hugh Waller allude to the real problem. Granted the flurry of infomation, and mis-information, has turned into a blizzard travelling at break-neck speed. But some people have a gift. The gift of recognizing.... knowing...what's truly important around an issue. And that correlation does not always mean causation. It's a gift that is reasonably rare....a few percent of managers at best. I have worked with precious few executives during my career who I think possessed it. Or the related gift of uncannily being able to formulate the right questions to ask at precisely the right moment. And try as we may, such gifts cannot generally be "taught". Far too often decisions are colored by one's own economic self-interests and/or a hidden agenda such as protecting one's status, image, and promoteability.
My advice.....find those in the organization who can separate the wheat from the chaff. They may be lurking anywhere and could be those you'd least suspect. Spend the time to identify them. Even if it will take more of your time and is a lot more tricky to do than subscribing to the latest fad.
- Mok Tuck Sung
- Owner, Profit Tools
I remember reading Profit Patterns back in 1999, by Adrian J. Slywotzky, David J. Morrison, Ted Moser, Kevin A. Mundt, James A. Quella. Talks about Strategic Patterns and Strategic Anticipation. Fast forward to today, with the advancement in data management technology and analytical skill in the past 13 years, they should have a new version of their Profit Pattern. My observation, is a repetition, where technology and knowledge advancement has again developed faster than the managers and business owners capabilities to leverage it's usefulness in their decision making process.
- Philippe Gouamba
- Vice President of Human Resources, Skyline Windows, LLC
Professor Heskett asks: Will the age of big data eliminate most or all uncertainty from business decisions for those most able to make effective use of "all the facts in the world?" It is exciting to dream about making perfect business decisions as we hold "all the facts in the world" in our hands but perfection is but an illusion and one that we need to be very caution with. Lets take a step back and away from this illusion of perfection and think for a second about three men: Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs. We all know who they are and what they have accomplished. If you do not know them, please google them when you have a free moment. Here is my point: If they had "all the facts in the world" in their grasp, would they have accomplished what they did? I think NOT. All the facts in the world include the fact that most start-ups fail in the first year of existence. It includes the fact that most ".coms" did not survive the .com bubble which exploded famously. If EVERYONE had perfect information and perfect decision-making skills would EVERYONE be a Bill Gates, a Mark Zuckerberg or a Steve Jobs? NO! If President Bush had "all the facts in the world", would he have kept us out of the conflict in Iraq? No! He was driven by things other than the facts. If there was ever a perfect business decision it did not come about because some manager or executive had "all the facts in the world". It came about because someone did some research, committed some resources to a worthwhile idea and made a decision and stood by it. A successful outcome is almost never the result of perfect information. It is the result of thoughtful leadership, of risk-taking, of creativity and of taking full advantage of a window of opportunity that may or may not ever come again. The age of big data may be here but even it has not and cannot change the nature of man, nor the fact that leadership and decision-making still require human interaction in the form of gut-checks, risk-taking, intuition, memory, experience, timing, creativity and leadership among many other contributing human in-puts. Thank you, Professor Heskett for your questions which are always though-provoking.
- Erwin G. Pfuhler
- Owner, ANOVASTAR GmbH
With this new opportunity the question arises what to do this amount of data. First we can just retrieve mostly any fact we are interested in. From a static perspective. Digging a bit deeper we will appreciate data analysis with statistic tools. This will be give us an idea what happens over time, but still we consider the parameters as independent variables. True insights will be provided, when we look at those data as a tightly woven net. Systems Thinking as proposed by Peter Senge, John Sterman, Jamshid Gharajedaghi should be the basis on which education for managers could build upon.
- Ravindra Edirisooriya
- Accountant 04/17/12, Midwestern Small Business
Professor Heskett's question on how "big data" will affect management is profound. However, an understanding of the connection between effective management decisions and use of data is important to answer Professor Heskett's question because data (big or small) means all things to all people (check the above comments for verification!). I have analyzed big data sets (not to mention small and medium data sets) for multiple companies. Some companies make management decisions with no data analysis and others spend resources to make management decisions based on sound data analysis. All these managers are sometimes right and sometimes wrong whether the decisions are based on data analysis or not based on data analysis. Hence, the objective of scientific data analysis is to reduce the chance of making the wrong decision ideally to 1% or 5%. If a decision is made with no data analysis there is no basis to verify how likely the outcome could be incorrect. If a decision is made with data analysis there is a basis and verification but it still depends on assumptions made especially that historical data could forecast the future outcomes, data size (big or small), data quality ("cleaning" data is as important as analysis, understanding and interpretation), analytical techniques (techniques that apply to small data sets not necessarily apply to big data sets and vice versa) and data analyst's (business analyst's) ability to understand and interpret the data! Data analyst (business analyst) may provide the evidence and the assumptions of the basis but the manger could be a nonbeliever of data analysis or would guide the data analyst to back his/her management decision already inked. On one hand, the greatest harm a data analyst (business analyst) can do is not to speak up his/her reservations on how the basis is used for decision making when it is incorrect and on the other hand a warning is timely. Speaking up your reservations may bring the analyst into disfavor with his/her supervisors, bosses or internal clients who may have done the wrong basis for so long and they may set you up and get you fired for a flimsy reason (or make you throw in the towel and resign from the company) to bury their ills from their superiors!
- David Lindsay
- Lecturer/Tutor, Edinburgh Napier Business School
I agree wholeheartedly that this tsunami requires both monitoring and effective management -the difference between what information is relevant, factual and up-to-date and information which aids our learning process .Already we have students who hardly ever refer to hardcopy sources for their dissertations, favoring instead the various links offered by Wikipedia and the likes. As this is still the genesis of the revolution it is up to observant and perceptive managers to identify specialist and dedicated experts who can "filter" and channel the appropriate information required for their organisations. Already we have e-mail overload and indeed some organisations are favoringTwitter in order to transmit and receive direct information short-term. We are in danger however of forgetting the Importance of infomation -we should be comfortably swimming rather than helplessly drowning in a sea of pop-ups and spam. I agree also th at the future is ripe for engineers who are pioneers and are able to extend the concept of firewalling for individual organisations - tailor-made services which would save a large percentage of valuable employee hours discarding and deleting irrelevant and unecessary "information" and "news" at the same time adding to that organisation's competitveness in their own marketplace. We have to escape the current concept that" too much ain't ever enough" and return to individualised data management including informatics and analytics but on a bespoke scale which could be engineered even for separate hierarchical levels in a company whether it is public, voluntary or private sector . Training pioneers is virtually impossible likewise entrepreneurs who have the ability and aptitude to "see" opportunities therfore it is left to Business Schools to devise relvant open programmes where the criteria for assessment is perhaps taken from the indivi dual student rather than imposed on by a risk-averse mechanical process so often found in places of "learning" .
- Paul Nicholas
- Director, Soul-Chaplain Consultancy
This is very interesting and thought provoking - thank you The early 21st century obsession with data and its mining for information perhaps mirrors the obsession of late19th Century physics with a quest for exactitude - nothing new was expected more than that everything was to be measured to ever greater degrees of accuracy - until early 20th Century physics found the world is full of uncertainty. To T S Elliot's prescient words "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" we might now add "Where is the information we have lost in data?"
- Clifford Francis baker
- Chair, Neffel Corporation
Having had the opportunity to participate in management in both the manufacture (aerospace) and retail (big box) sectors, I have found the data provided by statistical and metric analytics to be invaluable. Just the ability to track and quantify customer needs and expectations (in both sectors) alone constitutes a quantum advantage. However, I do find myself mildly concerned with the possibility of management becoming overly dependent on the data and the conclusions formulated by "data whisperers".
My concern is primarily focused on the possibility of complacency developing on the part of corporate board members and officers toward the basic need for request due diligence necessary in any decision making process, as they depend too exclusively on the data formulated and presented.
As anyone who is even vaguely familiar with accounting procedure and methodology knows the ease by which accounting data can be manipulated, I believe all and any data can an most likely will also be manipulated.
The recent negative and near disastrous effect on global markets caused in part by investor dependence on the data and conclusions of many analysts of contemporary market behaviors, I consider to be exemplum primi est.
As with handling a loaded gun, data derived from data analytics must also be handled with care.
- Ruth Winett
- Principal, Winett Associates
With all data, the fundamental questions remain the same:
Is it relevant? Is it current? Is it from reliable sources. What does it mean? What should we do about it?
- Anonymous
In such a sea of data, one needs to know only three things 1. The destination or goal 2. How to navigate the way there 3. The way in which to swim
Data has been the backbone of technological leaps in the digital age, with data accessibility, data sharing, data mining and of course data storage. May be now the paradigm shift has happened for data owning, security and usage. No more is anything totally private or public, with all data being available to be shared across the internet and the cloud. All the more is the significance of being able to access the right data at the right time, and being able to analyze from it to draw the right type of conclusions, so going by that, data will always form the inherent part of any system, and probably the biggest data acquirer, storage and processing is really the human mind itself.....
- Anonymous
As Steve Jobs would say 'That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.' If he can build the biggest company in the world by just focus and simplicity then Big Data is nothing but analysis-paralysis!! More data means more information, and more information means more ways of analysis it, and more ways of analysing it means more conclusions you can reach!
- Raji Gogulapati
Big data characterized by volume, velocity and variety has the potential for more choice for sources of data (and information), unforeseen data products to solve problems, provide insights, eliminate situations of lack of evidence as well as lack of sources of information. There is more scope for innovative, justified, evidence based and flattened decision making. Sensing and responding to situations which were thought impossible become possible with a capacity to question, check, visualize and recognize patterns and the ability to connect the dots of the data available.
New possibilities prompt the need for new ways of management. Systemic thinking with a flair for analyzing and synthesizing data would be some of the traits of big data management professionals.
Current data managers will need to categorize their applications to determine when to use and not use the possible resources for information. They will need to be able to determine the need for filtering and distilling the data to derive value of the information.
A whole new type of data products reinventing industries is possible with big data with the convergence of several technologies such as artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, sensors and networks to name a few. Big data product managers will be foreseeing the product road maps of such products. Big data application managers seem to be like those senior editors who work with data journalists in the newspaper / publishing industry. Their skill set needs to match their nature of work, a fundamental shift from the more established general, process, product, project, program managers in any industry. The data revolution would be big with immense opportunities and the growth could be exponential.
- Jeffrey Vocell
- Co-Founder, Trendslide
I agree with many of the other comments before me that 'Big Data' has the potential to be transformative. Since many others have addressed these points, I wanted to specifically address the talent piece of your question in the last paragraph.
In fact, I think it's the wrong question whether we will find (or have) a shortage of analytics saavy managers. Certainly a manager with some level of depth into analytics is helpful, but they should not need to have a background in data science to manage their department. Some of this responsibility should be shouldered by vendors that are producing intelligence tools for managers. Not in the sense of sourcing and recruiting professionals, but making business analytics more human so even a manager without a deep data background can effectively use intelligence tools for informed decision making.
I believe with the advent of mobile offerings we are starting to see the beginnings of some of these platforms that will only continue to expand into the workforce.
- Lisa Kuhn Phillips
- inavision, llc
big data.... better analysis.... best to integrate....test...and continue to tweak..
Evolution of data is in real-time. Must keep that in mind, when analyzing. Then push the data further, by not getting caught up in detail. Think holistically, with a systematic process in mind.


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Boeing Faulted by Norwegian Air on 787 Short Circuit
Jan. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Boeing Co. engineers lacked the expertise needed to diagnose a fault on a 787 Dreamliner, causing them to short-circuit the marquee plane and leave its passengers stranded, operator Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA said.
The twin-engine jet, Boeing's newest model, suffered what proved to be an erroneous fault warning in New York on Dec. 29, then was grounded for three days after the maintenance blunder, Norwegian Air Chief Executive Officer Bjoern Kjos said.
"Some of the teams they have put in place don't have the necessary experience," Kjos, 67, said yesterday in an interview in London. He said the incident and two other holiday-season failures traced to an antenna glitch in Florida and a bird strike in Bangkok had come "at the worst time for passengers."
Kjos's plans to establish Norwegian Air as a pioneer in long-haul discount travel revolve around Dreamliner operating costs that Boeing says will be at least 15 percent lower than for older aircraft. The CEO said the airline's business model is being stretched with deliveries of only three 787s out of the 10 it has committed to purchase or lease.
"When we come up to summer we'll have a much better flexibility to swap aircraft that we can't do today, or at least not every day," he said. Fornebu-based Norwegian was forced to lease another plane to bring passengers home from New York.
Boeing said it was responding to the situation.
"We are working with our customer to ensure that our support meets their expectations, and implementing improvements when it does not," Doug Alder, a spokesman for Chicago-based Boeing, said by e-mail.
Brake Sensor
The 787 incident in Bangkok on Jan. 1 that resulted from a bird strike caused the plane to be grounded for a day, while the Dec. 21 antenna glitch in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was the first in about 10 years involving a part also used on the 737, and caused a delay while a replacement was brought from Seattle, Kjos said.
The New York incident was triggered by a software issue falsely suggesting that the brakes were being applied to one of the plane's wheels, according to the CEO.
"The sensor was wrong and it should have been fixed in five minutes," he said. "Some of the people were very good and some could have had more experience on the 787s."
Boeing is responding by strengthening engineering support at airports where Norwegian's 787s fly, Kjos said.
Smooth Operations
The CEO said the Dreamliners enjoyed a period of smooth operations and achieved 92 percent on-time performance between Scandinavia and New York during November after problems earlier in the year. "They were working all the time," he said.
The high utilization that Norwegian Air needs from its 787s to deliver a global timetable should be eased once further planes arrive by the middle of this year.
"When we have seven aircraft we will always have flexibility to swap," Kjos said.
The next wave of deliveries to Norwegian will also feature enhancements including updated software that should reduce the likelihood of further disruptions, Kjos said.
Kjos said he's meanwhile working to repair customer relations strained by December's miscues, which were given days of Scandinavian media coverage charting the woes of stranded passengers and the carrier's purportedly subpar response.
"Our system showed serious weaknesses in informing the passengers," Kjos said. "The press is quite right to write about it."
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RICHMOND, Va (WTVR) — There are still unanswered questions surrounding a body found along the slave trail at Ancarrow's Landing early Thursday evening. The area where the body was found is along the James River where there is one way in, and one way out.
Investigators are still trying to determine if the decomposing body discovered by a city worker around 4:00 p.m. Thursday, is that of Paresh Patel.
Patel was abducted from outside his Jefferson Davis Highway gas station early Sunday morning, and has not been seen or heard from since.
At this time Richmond Police have not identified the body.
In addition to Richmond Police investigating, Chesterfield detectives and the FBI were also on hand trying to piece together if the body discovered is connected to the Patel case.
A close friend of the Patel family told CBS 6 News Reporter Jerrita Patterson police have spoken with the family, only to tell them an unidentified body was discovered. The family friend said they are still waiting to hear back from detectives–who have only said it is too early to rule anything out.
"Chesterfield came onto the scene," confirmed Richmond Police spokesman James Mercante. "When a jurisdiction nearby has someone missing, for example, and Richmond Police find a body they will call in–as a courtesy–these detectives to take a look to see if perhaps it has something to do with their case. So other resources were called in as well. So hopefully this will aid in getting the conclusion that we want."
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By Joey Garrison / The Tennessean
As a direct response to the recent shootings in Newtown, Conn.,
and elsewhere, the Metro Nashville Police Department is instituting a
new policy that will let trained officers carry their personal rifles -
those based on the AR-15 format - in their vehicles while on duty.
Metro Police Chief Steve Anderson plans on formally announcing the policy change Monday, The Tennessean has learned.
events across the United States over the past few years, including,
among others, those in Carson City, Nevada; Aurora, Colorado; and
Newtown Connecticut, demonstrate the high powered weapons with which
criminals are arming themselves," Anderson said in a written statement.
has become increasingly clear that a pistol and shotgun may not be
enough for an officer to stop a threat to innocent citizens. This policy
change is in the best interest of public and officer safety."
the department's existing policy, this type of weapon is available to a
limited number of officers involved in assignments such as SWAT and
Canine units.
According to Metro police spokesman Don Aaron, the
new policy will allow officers to carry "personally owned" patrol rifles
of varying manufactures based on AR-15 platforms inside their vehicles
so long as several regulations are met: police staff must inspect and
approve the weapons for uniformity; no modifications are made to the
rifles once approved; and that officers approved to carry rifles
complete a course on patrol rifle deployment.
The weapon of choice during three United States mass shootings, the AR-15 rifle, has emerged at the center of a national debate over gun control.
gunman used an AR-15 to slaughter 20 children and six adults Dec. 14 at
Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. Earlier in December, a
gunman went on a shooting spree in an Oregon mall with an AR-15, killing
two people. And last summer, a gunman armed with an AR-15 sprayed an
Aurora, Colo., movie theater where 12 people were killed.
rifles, under the new policy, are to only be used "when it is clear that
a tactical advantage over a criminal suspect is warranted," Aaron said,
and are not meant for routine calls.
According to department
figures, one-third of its 1,400 sworn Metro police officers currently
own these now-permitted weapons. Twenty of these officers will help
oversee the department's initial training course later this month.
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Iran and the UN nuclear watchdog were due in talks Friday to make a fresh push to patch up relations as Tehran feels the heat from sanctions and amid fevered speculation of imminent Israeli military action.
But with the International Atomic Energy Agency having this year failed in a string of other meetings, including in Tehran, to get Iran to grant access to nuclear scientists, documents and sites, hopes were not high.
"I cannot say at this time that I am optimistic about the outcome of the coming meeting," IAEA head Yukiya Amano, who came home empty-handed from a trip to Iran in May, said in Finland on Wednesday.
And even if there is progress, this is unlikely to break the current deadlock in higher-level diplomatic efforts on a different track — between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany — after fruitless meetings in Istanbul, Baghdad and Moscow this year.
In Israel, meanwhile, talk of military action on Iran has reached a cacophony this month, although it is unclear whether it is aimed merely at spurring US President Barack Obama into adopting a more hawkish position.
At Friday's meeting, the IAEA wants Iran to address evidence it has suggesting that at least until 2003, and possibly since, Tehran carried out "activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device."
Iran rejects Western accusations that it is seeking to develop atomic weapons and says that its nuclear program is peaceful.
It says the evidence presented by the IAEA, set out in a major report last November and added to since, is fabricated by its enemies, not least its arch foe Israel, the Middle East's only — if undeclared — nuclear–armed power.
The IAEA wants access to specific documents and to scientists involved in Iran's programme, as well as to sites, including the Parchin military base near Tehran, which it visited twice in 2005 but which it wants to look at again.
Even though analysts say other sites are more significant, the IAEA has zeroed in on Parchin because its information on the site, unlike on others, is not from foreign intelligence services — sources which the IAEA refuses to reveal.
Iran has said it will allow access only if this forms part of a wider arrangement governing relations between Iran and the watchdog that experts and diplomats say would limit to an unacceptable degree the IAEA's inspection rights.
Western countries have accused Iran of bulldozing parts of Parchin to remove evidence, and the IAEA said in May that activities spotted there by satellite "could hamper the agency's ability to undertake effective verification."
"I really don't see much use in going to Parchin now that the site has been sanitized," one Western diplomat in Vienna told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Friday's meeting, the first since June, between Iranian officials and IAEA chief inspector Herman Nackaerts and Amano's deputy Rafael Grossi comes before the release of the IAEA's latest quarterly report on Iran, possibly next week.
The report, ahead of an IAEA board of governors meeting starting September 10, is expected to show once more that despite unprecedented international pressure and the talk of war, Iran is continuing to expand its nuclear activities.
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Suffering from severe headache and drowsiness after a night's full of alcoholic drinks and your favorite cocktails? Don't worry, there are solutions that you can tap to ease the severe headache and foul mood this morning, and some of the best solutions can be found in your kitchen. That's right; you no longer need to rush for your medications as a way to treat your hangover headache. Just find the right and good hangover food, and you'll feel your best once again in no time. Here are some of the recommended hangover foods to try when you have failed to control yourself the other night.
Coconut Water
You need to hydrate your body in order to work in optimum state once again without the usual headache. This is can be done by drinking coconut water as soon as you feel that the headache is creeping. Though you can always count on sports drink to replenish the lost electrolytes in the body, keep in mind that most of the bottled sports drinks are carbonated and will only irritate your stomach. The great thing about coconut water is that this is refreshing and packed with electrolytes which can help you regain your lost electrolytes and boost your early morning feeling.
Load Up on Eggs
Eggs are recommended for your hangover every morning since these are rich in protein and these are easy to digest. And according to many experts, the protein that comes with the eggs can help brush away the remaining toxins. As much as possible, go for the egg whites with only a minimal yolks so that you don't consume too much cholesterol that can only affect your cholesterol count.
Sip Some Soup
Though associated as the food for the sick, still you can count on a soup to bring back your old good feeling. Whether it is a chicken soup or a tomato soup, sipping a hot soup can help you manage your extreme hangover. Also, the salt in the soup can help you retain some water and this is extra helpful if you have been vomiting for the past few hours. Also, since salt in the soup will make you thirsty, then you will be forced to drink as much water as possible.
Eat Your Fruits and Drink Fruit Juices
Skip the usual chips and other junk food. When it comes to snack items the morning after your drinking spree, then it's wise to check out fruits and real fruit juices inside the fridge. The sugar that you can get from the juice and the fruit can help you boost your energy in the morning. Also, the sugar in the fruit can help take out the toxins that come with the alcoholic drinks.
When it comes to managing your hangover, rely on good hangover food. This means you don't need to waste your time and resources with the usual junk food- from pizza, chips to cola. Go natural by tapping into coconut water, soup and fruits in your battle to manage your extreme hangover.


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Her Story is a bold and largely successful experiment in interactive crime fiction.
Rocksteady's gorgeous-looking third Arkham game refines its open-world format a bit and lets you drive a whole hell of a lot of Batmobile.
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Achievements are extra challenges added into video games that sometimes carry a point value or unlock bonus material, and are sometimes solely for bragging rights.
Aftertouch is a technique where the player is able to manipulate the path of an object that they would realistically have no control of, such as a fired bullet or a crashing car.
Autolog is a social feature in Electronic Arts' racing games that actively challenges players based on their own friends' performance in the same game.
Many games sport magic cars that drive all by themselves. This is most likely done in order to keep a low rating or for other reasons.
Digital Distribution is the concept of purchasing digital media via the internet and having it sent to the user directly via the internet. No physical representation of this content is given but the content resides on the users hard drive and is legally owned by them.
Drifting is a technique used in motorsports that involves intentionally over-steering the car to create a slide. This is done both as a competitive and exhibitive technique.
An environmental hazard that can be exploited to inflict massive areal damage, exploding barrels are one of the most ubiquitous objects to be found in games. The most common methods of ignition include shooting and throwing. Exploding barrels are usually distinguished from the non-exploding kind by a conspicuous red tint.
A powerful release of energy. This energy is usually expelled in all directions very quickly, typically giving off orange or red flames.
In order to avoid licensing issues, many games simply create fictional car brands.
An interesting revelation. While some games will only accept a START button press, many other games aren't as strict.
A popular piece of classical music known for its Hallelujah Chorus. The chorus is often used to highlight a moment of celebratory or miraculous triumph.
In many games there is a ranking system, the players with the highest point value are listed in a "high score" table.
It's arguably the one move that symbolizes the medium to those outside it. The ability to jump, be it onto building, onto platforms, or onto skulls, is one of the all time most important abilities ever put in a video game.
Kinect is a camera and depth sensor-based peripheral for the Xbox 360 that allows users to interact with and play games using their whole bodies, rather than using a standard controller.
Multipliers award players for playing well continuously. Racking up multipliers is crucial in any point based game in which they are featured.
An act of Mother Nature that brings hardship on humanity and the world.
Who needs 2D when we've got 3D? 3D, or 3 dimensions, is what we're used to seeing in almost every game these days, letting us do all sorts of awesome stuff like run in circles!
Many video games featuring cars have tried to incorporate it in some way.
A game perspective that views the action from above, commonly at a fixed position and/or rotation.
Tsunami is a natural disaster. A big large wave of water that normally are caused by earthquake underwater. It bring destruction to nearby coasts - especially in Japan.
A twister, or tornado, is a localized windstorm characterized by a rotating column of air resembling a funnel-shaped cloud.
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Greg VdB: 1) unfortunately ALL companies bring to market flawed products from time to time
2) this updated version is a good thing for future buyers
3) Nikon should have publicly appologized to affected D600 users and offered THEM a permanent solution as well
If Nikon CEO Admit that he made Mistake, that will force him to commit Harakiri.
Patco: "Some other things we enjoyed about the D600 were its solid, weather-sealed magnesium alloy body"
Really? According to Nikon, only the top & rear covers are magnesium, so the body is mostly plastic.
DPreview must be getting lots of money from Nikon.
FreedomLover: Nikon is following Microsoft's way of business:
More defects makes more money, just continually sell buggy updates.
Nikon always claimed there was no problem, and all problems solved. So now people can buy the next defective batch. And there will be many saying there is no problem.
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*phone ringing*
Nikon CEO: Yes?
Nikon Tech. Dept.: Err, hello Mr. Masai. About the oil spill?
Nikon CEO: Yes? What about it?
Nikon Tech. Dept.: It... uhmm... wasn't the shutter mechanism after all. It was the mirror...
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I had a D600 with sensor spots from day # 1. They were not over-hyped anything. They were real. It was sent in for cleaning several times AND the shutter was replaced as recently as August. The spots STILL CAME BACK even with the new shutter!! Dozens of them. If they try to pass off the D610 as refurbed D600's with new shutters they will have a PR nightmare if the spots return.
I hope they fixed the problem. If not they will pay for it.
I lost all the confidence in Nikon. Nikon need to earn my and lots of peoples respect by providing better product and better service.
Nikon is in business of making Money not the Camera. Service is given only when they do not have choice.
We need that in DSLR Sony, Cannon and Nikon should use this technology in their cameras.
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AFTER almost losing everything on their last performance, TOPS Musical Productions are thrilled to announce they have secured the amateur rights to perform two blockbuster productions.
White Christmas, the musical based on the classic Bing Crosby film, will be performed at the Princess Theatre in November this year.
And in October, 2015, the society will be presenting Hairspray which recently had a hit run in the West End with Michael Ball in the role of Edna.
Chairman Jeane Frost said: "For a while we thought our production of The Producers last September was going to be our last, but the wonderful people of Torbay rallied around and showed their support.
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"In addition those who came to see The Producers thought it was the best show we had ever done and it won the National Operatic and Dramatic Association's District Achievement Award.
"We are so excited now to have secured the rights to these two fabulous shows.
"White Christmas is a timeless classic which will really get people in the holiday mood. Hairspray is fun and colourful and a wonderful opportunity to enable younger members of the society to demonstrate their amazing talents. We are all looking forward to the exciting times ahead for TOPS."
TOPS are currently rehearsing for a concert, 'Seasons of Love', at the Little Theatre on April 26 at 2.30pm and 7.30pm.
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"Grandma's Gun"
Short fiction - Crime
by Shannon Cason
You see the fucking size of that gun?" Det. Harris said. "Where'd he get it?"
"He says he got it from his grandmother's bottom drawer. Says he saw where she put it after she used it to scare his uncle out the house once," Det. Markson said.
"He's how old?" Harris said sitting at a desk massaging the afternoon stubble on the top of his bald head. "Nine years old?"
"Nine and a half, is what he told me." Markson said with a smile. Markson was standing.
"Shit. Where's the grandma?"
"She's here. With him. She has legal custody, so she has to be with him. You gotta see this old lady, frail as a bag of bones. Fucking Death eating a cracker, man. Her ID says 67, but she doesn't look a year under 90. The kid's just scared to shit."
"Umph... Funny, I was imagining that lady in the play. You know, the guy who plays the grandma..." Harris said touching a bump that was just above his ear.
"Madea?" Markson said.
"Yeah, fucking Madea," Harris said.
"Naw man, just the fucking opposite. She's fucking Rosa Parks with a .50-Cal Magnum man. It would have to be like shooting a fucking newborn baby to her..."
"And the kid shot it?"
"Yeah. Dead fucking center too. Splattered the fucker's head all over the kitchen. The stove. The cabinets. The refrigerator. All covered," Markson said shaking his head. "It's these fucking video games. I was playing with my kid and he's like, 'Shoot for the head, shoot for the head'. This kid's a decent-sized nine-year-old though."
"So it's his uncle?"
"Headless uncle, yeah. The wallet was in his jeans. The uncle's got a sheet too - drugs, petty theft..."
"Naw man, just a bullshit 20-dollar rock a year ago. But he did time on the theft charge about ten years back though," Markson said. "My guess is abuse, but who the fuck knows? Could be he ate the last fucking piece of chicken, the arrogance of kids now'days."
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Picture Polish Jealousy Nail Lacquer
Picture Polish Jealousy Nail Lacquer ($9.50 for 0.50 fl. oz.) is described as a "glittery green." It's a light-medium grassy green base with yellow undertones and chartreuse, emerald green, and medium green glitter and shimmer. I don't have anything that's quite like this. Zoya Meg is all light yellow-toned green. Wet 'n' Wild Sagreena the Teenage Witch is straight emerald green. Sinful Colors HD Nails is more of a medium green. Zoya Apple is closer, but it's less of a grassy-green and has less coverage. Nubar Meadow Sparkle is just the lighter green glitter.
It's fully opaque after two coats, which is fantastic for a shade with this much glitter. It also dries to a nearly perfectly smooth finish–it's not gritty or bumpy. There's even a slight sheen at the end, though I'd still recommend a top coat for extra shine. The consistency is very thick, gel-like, and it was nearly impossible to do two thin coats. With the thicker consistency, each coat has a long drying time. I would recommend letting the first coat dry before applying the next, because while it's very forgiving if you go to apply a second coat too soon, it's hard to tell when it's fully dry that way. I did test the wear of this shade in particular, and it wore for a full seven days with minor tip wear but no chipping.
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Picture Polish Jealousy Nail Lacquer Review, Photos, Swatches
|I wish the consistency wasn't so thick, because then it would be a better polish overall. I really loved how nicely pigmented the shade was, and it's always good to have a glitter shade that's opaque without needing a polish layered under it.
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