As I promised last week in From Overload to Impact: An Industry Scorecard on Big Data Business Challenges [Oracle Report], the key finding that is missing from Oracle’s summary:
Executives’ Biggest Data Management Gripes:*
#1 Don’t have the right systems in place to gather the information we need (38%)
#2 Can’t give our business managers access to the information they need; need to rely on IT (36%)
Ask your business managers: Do they feel like IT hostages?
You are likely to be surprised at the answers you get.
IT’s vocabulary acts as an information clog.
A clog that impedes the flow of information in your organization.
Information that can improve the speed and quality of business decision making.
The critical point is: Information clogs are bad for business.
Do you want to borrow my plunger?