From Forbes.com on February 22, 2017…
In just the last few years, iconic names like Borders, Radio Shack and Sports Authority have all gone the way of the T-Rex…they are extinct! Disruption is and will continue to be a constant as we can see from political campaigns to consumer’s shopping behaviors.
Today, the effects of this disruption can be seen in accelerated retail store closings, legacy brands increasingly on life support and plummeting mall real estate values.
In response, private equity, corporations, and academic institutions have responded by pouring billions of dollars into an ever-expanding universe of big data firms with services, hardware, software and course offerings all promising to find the magic potion when firms aggregate their data gold mines.
This, in turn, leads to a bright light shined on the most important variable in this equation…the data. And the resulting reflection has uncovered continue reading.