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1. THE DATA ASSET
INTRODUCTION - DATABASES, BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE, ANALYTICS, BIG DATA,
AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

2. INTRODUCTION
1. Understand how increasingly standardized data, access to
third-party data sets, cheap, fast computing and easier-to-
use software are collectively enabling a new age of decision
making.
2. Be familiar with some of the enterprises that have benefited
from data-driven, fact-based decision making.

3. INTRODUCTION
• Big Data
• Big data is a general term used to describe the massive amount of data
available to today’s managers. Big data are often unstructured and are
too big and costly to easily work through use of conventional databases,
but new tools are making these massive datasets available for analysis
and insight.
• Business Intelligence (BI)
• A term combining aspects of reporting, data exploration and ad hoc
queries, and sophisticated data modeling and analysis.

4. INTRODUCTION
• Analytics
• A term describing the extensive use of data, statistical and quantitative
analysis, explanatory and predictive models, and fact-based
management to drive decisions and actions.
• Machine Learning
• A type of artificial intelligence that leverages massive amounts of data so
that computers can improve the accuracy of actions and predictions on
their own without additional programming.

5. INTRODUCTION
• Data
• Analytics
• Competitive Advantage

6. INTRODUCTION
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7. INTRODUCTION
• What have we discussed?
• The amount of data being created doubles every two years.
• In many organizations, available data is not exploited to advantage.
However new tools supporting big data, business intelligence, and
analytics are helping managers make sense of this data torrent.
• Data is oftentimes considered a defensible source of competitive
advantage; however, advantages based on capabilities and data that
others can acquire will be short-lived.

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