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Making Big Data Work for Your Business

You're reading from  Making Big Data Work for Your Business

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2014
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783000982
Pages 170 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Concepts
Author (1):
Sudhi Ranjan Sinha Sudhi Ranjan Sinha
Profile icon Sudhi Ranjan Sinha

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Making Big Data Work for Your Business
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
Preface
Building Your Strategy Framework Creating an Opportunity Landscape and Collecting Your Gold Coins Managing Your Big Data Projects Effectively Building the Right Technology Landscape Building a Winning Team Managing Investments and Monetization of Data Driving Change Effectively Driving Communication Effectively

Improving team alignment and performance


In the initial days, your project team for Big Data Analysis is most likely to be a small one. It is critical for your team to be well aligned with each other and towards the common objectives you have set. Even for larger teams, this problem still remains. You can take a number of steps towards this goal. We will now discuss some of the high impact ones in this section.

Training and orientation

One of the first steps to bring everybody together is to conduct a common set of training and orientation programs. This will help them speak a common language and understand each other better. Some of the key topics you should include in this program are as follows:

  • Statistics: Many of us have taken Statistics courses in our schools will remember most of these concepts and use a few of them from time to time. It is unlikely that we will have a deep familiarity with the theories and formulae, and how to apply them on large problems, unless our jobs required...

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