How to crush your competition with a data strategy
The largest accommodation provider owns no real estate, the most popular media provider creates no content, the fastest growing television network lays no cables, the most valuable retailer has no inventory, the world’s largest taxi company owns no vehicles! Airbnb, Facebook, Netflix, Alibaba, Uber – can you apply their data strategy? Can you make yourself […]
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Chief Data Officer – why you should care!
Gartner predicts that 90 percent of large organizations will have a chief data officer by 2019. Reflecting on this, and thinking about the meetings I‘ve had with several large organisations this week, about where they want to take their data and analytics, I don’t think this is the case. Why do I say that? In […]
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What Makes A Successful Data and Analytics Project?
“Gartner predicts 2017 will see 60 percent of data projects fail.” That’s not as shocking as it sounds, mainly due to my experience in what happened with both ERP and CRM when they were introduced in the world of business, and I think companies still struggle with those too! Mind you I don’t know what […]
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Driving Value By Monetising Data
“Data monetisation” will become a major source of revenues, as the world will create 180 zettabytes of data (or 180 trillion gigabytes) in 2025, up from less than 10 zettabytes in 2015, according to IDC” I’m writing this from Cape Town, where I have been invited to speak to the African Telecoms market at the […]
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