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Bill Schmarzo
Bill Schmarzo
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Bill Schmarzo

Bill Schmarzo, The Dean of Big Data is a University of San Francisco School of Management Executive Fellow and an Honorary Professor at the School of Business and Economics at the National University of Ireland-Galway where he teaches and mentors students in his courses “Big Data MBA” and “Thinking Like a Data Scientist". He is the author of Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business, Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data Science, and The Art of Thinking Like a Data Scientist. He has written countless whitepapers, articles and blogs, and given keynote presentations and university lectures on the topics of data science, artificial intelligence/machine learning, data economics, design thinking and team empowerment.
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DX Law #3: It's About Speaking the Language of Your Customers

Digital Transformation is about empathizing, ideating, validating, and quantifying the creators and inhibitors of customer value; it's about reinventing your business model to expand upon, exploit, and monetize those sources of customer value creation while eliminating the inhibitors of value creation.

Let's say that you are in the retail industry and looking to identify opportunities to combine digital technologies with customer usage insights (propensities) to eliminate barriers to customer value creation. That retailer would want to invest the time to empathize, ideate, validate, and quantify the sources and impediments of value creation for their customers. Figure 8.4 provides an example of how a retailer could reinvent the customer value creation process by emphasizing the sources and eliminating the inhibitors of value creation.

Figure 8.4: Traditional versus Digitally Transformed Customer...

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Bill Schmarzo

Bill Schmarzo, The Dean of Big Data is a University of San Francisco School of Management Executive Fellow and an Honorary Professor at the School of Business and Economics at the National University of Ireland-Galway where he teaches and mentors students in his courses “Big Data MBA” and “Thinking Like a Data Scientist". He is the author of Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business, Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data Science, and The Art of Thinking Like a Data Scientist. He has written countless whitepapers, articles and blogs, and given keynote presentations and university lectures on the topics of data science, artificial intelligence/machine learning, data economics, design thinking and team empowerment.
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