To Empower or not to Empower [via Big Data Community Group]

Hello everyone,

as I began following news on how Big Data may create opportunities for
organizations I also wondered about how organizations might have to change in
order to reach these opportunities.

My sense is that, assuming organizations have the technology in place to
analyze big data, the most important thing is the ability of people to ask the
right quesitons when interrogating data.

Then a question is: do you think organizations should empower employees more?
In other words, should companies design ways for employees to advance their
ideas as to which data analyses to pursue? For example: one employee may come
out and say: I think that our customers are favoring product X of our
competitor to ours...then an analysis of social networks could be carried out in
order to see customer relative perception of the two products...

To conclude, there are several opportunities from using Big Data (are there?)
and because managerial attention is limited, employees empowerment may increase
the probability of getting value from data...

What do you think?



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Received on Tuesday, 21 October 2014 16:04:43 UTC