This document discusses how scholars can prepare for the future of big data in relation to Islamic knowledge and religious ideology. It recommends that scholars take incremental steps in the near and mid terms to focus on improving business performance through big data. It also stresses the importance of moving past pilot projects, integrating different data repositories, establishing data-driven decision making processes, and having the right people and leadership to work towards these goals.

5.  SEIZING THE BIG DATA STRATEGIC POSSIBILITIES
 For all of these reasons, having a sense of the possible, especially relative
to the Internet of Things, is important. And the possibilities will be
astounding, blurring the lines of Islamaphobia and fundamentally altering
the way User interact with their Islamic Knowledge and religious ideology
 In preparing genuine online data for the future of big data, where should
Scholars seeking tangible execution tomorrow focus their thinking today?
 Groundbreaking future results start with disciplined and incremental
steps in the near- and mid-terms.

6.  Strategic focus – today the most important question to ask is how can big
data improve business performance; it may be the most important question,
tomorrow, too.
 Operationalization – moving beyond pilot projects and past the “cloud
computing project in the basement” stage is critical to reaching future scale
with big data
 Integration and Ecosystems – holistic, big-picture views are necessary to knit
together the right big data repositories in optimal fashion and establish a
flexible foundation for the future, with the highest value data readily
accessible to the right users, and well defined rules and governance
structures in place.
 Cultural Shifts – data-driven Islamic and analytics-enabled decision making
processes must become the norm, which seems inevitable in the next
generation, but the scholar who get there first will have decided advantage.
 Right People on the Bus – having the right scholars and organisation working
together, with strong and purposeful leadership, are necessary now, and will
continue to pay off later.