Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders
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Insight
When you hear that a business is "playing games," you probably think something shady is going on. But not necessarily! Video games can be extremely useful to virtually every organization. Businesses, not-for-profits, and governments are starting to use video games to address a wide range of business challenges.
An important development bound to positively impact the use of the open source Apache Hadoop technology in the traditional enterprise is the introduction of packaged Big Data appliances from the enterprise hardware and software vendors. These offerings -- from Oracle, EMC Greenplum, Dell, and NetApp -- bundle Hadoop distributions along with database, storage connectors, and other software for integrating Hadoop applications with various data sources and into an organization's data center.
Executive Update
The Gen Y Retention Challenge
2012: The Dawn of a New Era
With the rise of social media, the ubiquity of consumer technology, and the emergence of Big Data tools and cloud computing, 2012 will go down in history as the transition to a new way of computing for organizations.
THE TREND
Social media has -- in just a few short years -- become a major driver of operational and strategic decisions that cross-cut corporate awareness, brands, customer service, product development, reputation management, and, ultimately, business purpose. Social media impacts the top and bottom lines of all companies that sell and service anything.
There is big data about Big Data. Every genre of publication (trade press, mainstream business media, newspapers, journals of science for scientists, and journals of science for nonscientists) has run or is running cover articles on Big Data.1 Each article opines about the game-changing and transformative impacts associated with Big Data.
When it comes to making long-term predictions, most so-called experts fare no better than "dart-throwing monkeys." Or so Nobel prize-winning author Daniel Kahneman claimed in a recent interview1 about his best-selling book Thinking Fast and Slow.