Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders

Mainstream organizations don't want to just use Hadoop in a standalone manner. They want to integrate the insights discovered with Hadoop into their data warehousing and BI environments.

Business resilience has become increasingly important in the wake of an unusual period of natural disasters around the globe, and new technologies and organizational models have yielded improved capabilities to move forward in the face of any disaster.

The good news for mainstream organizations that want to conduct Big Data analysis using Hadoop is that a lack of comprehensive, supported environments no longer remains the most significant barrier to adoption.

Information technology in the modern large enterprise is becoming increasingly expensive. With new IT systems going online every week and an ever-increasing range of products and systems flowing into the enterprise, there is a vital need for a governance structure to control the amount and quality of IT systems on which the business is based.

Creating an evolutionary process in development has been seen as a perspective belonging more to the philosophical and spiritual realms than to the so-called scientific realm. An evolutionary approach, however, provides for sustainability of growth.

Consumerization is the impetus for a renewal of IT. BYOD will spur creativity, increase agility, and bring new benefits to business.

Consumerization will obliterate the hard-won efficiencies of standards and bring chaos to downsized IT operations areas. BYOD is the new technical Tower of Babel.