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Making Big Data Work for Your Business

You're reading from   Making Big Data Work for Your Business A clear, practical and simple guide to ensuring effective Big Data analytics for your business

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783000982
Length 170 pages
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Sudhi Ranjan Sinha Sudhi Ranjan Sinha
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Making Big Data Work for Your Business
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
Preface
1. Building Your Strategy Framework FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating an Opportunity Landscape and Collecting Your Gold Coins 3. Managing Your Big Data Projects Effectively 4. Building the Right Technology Landscape 5. Building a Winning Team 6. Managing Investments and Monetization of Data 7. Driving Change Effectively 8. Driving Communication Effectively

Summary


In this chapter, you have worked on various techniques to manage Big Data Analytics initiatives more effectively. In this chapter, you have:

  • Understood how Big Data projects are different from normal technology projects

  • Understood how to uniquely define success criteria for Big Data projects

  • Understood how to avoid the limitations of traditional project management methodologies while pursuing Big Data projects

To manage the unique aspects of Big Data projects, we discussed an iterative and adaptive Explore-Validate-Amplify framework:

We further discussed:

  • How to establish a governance model for Big Data initiatives

  • How to slightly tweak the approach for customer-facing applications that result from Big Data initiatives

  • How to take a more comprehensive view while building your enterprise Big Data platform

You should adapt the various techniques that we have discussed in this chapter to suit your business context and culture. As we have often reiterated, we are still in the early stages of...

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