For the second post in the CTOVision summary of the McKinsey report on Big
Data, we take a look at the impact of Big Data on production, supply, and
logistics. When we discuss Big Data, there’s often an implicit assumption
that it has to do entirely with IT functions. However, Big Data actually will
have a large impact on manufacturing value chains.
While the manufacturing sector has historically been a driver of GDP and
employment for many developed economies, globalization has made it a global
activity with extended supply chains made possible by advances in information
and communications technology as well as reduced transportation and market
entry costs. This has resulted in incredibly complex and fragmented webs of
globe-spanning chains, and increasing country specialization in specific
changes of the production process. Manufacturers, in turn, have assembled
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been in the Big Data business since
1999 when it launched the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification
System (IAFIS), the world’s largest biometric database on individuals.
IAFIS contains over 55 million sets of fingerprints and is used by law
enforcement agencies nationwide for criminal investigations and civil
background checks. To keep pace of the evolution of biometrics as well as the
ever-growing demand for information, the FBI is now incrementally upgrading
to a system it calls Next Generation Identification (NGI). Through ... (more)
The iPhone 4S is the exact same form factor as the 4
Apple just released the details on the iPhone 4S, for those expecting the 5,
they were extremely underwhelmed, and Apple’s stock has taken a bit of a
tumble. The updates were all internal and all on the back-end. This has made
quite a few people upset (mostly because they were hoping for the iPhone 5)
but the device is in fact a good deal more powerful.
In my opinion, the iCloud is the biggest advancement
If you’ve read this blog often, you know I’m not a big Apple fan. While
they do make solid products, I don’t believe that the... (more)
WayIn.com is a new mobile engagement service developed by Scott McNealy,
founder of Sun Microsystems. Utilizing the free Wayin app on their mobile
devices, users post images and questions that will spark humorous, passionate
and lively debate among the global Wayin community. As soon as a Wayin user
posts content, he or she will receive an instant pulse of other people’s
sentiment about an entertaining topic. Wayin allows users around the world to
connect with each other in real-time, giving them a gaming platform to share
instant feedback on items that are most important to them... (more)
On Monday, December 5, Bob Gourley went on the Enterprise CIO Forum to
explain Big Data and why it matters. First, he defined Big Data simply as the
data your organization cannot currently analyze. Though some technologists
give more precise definitions, this sums up the challenge enterprises now
face. If you can deal with all of your data now, you don’t have a Big Data
problem, but as soon as you have more data than you can effectively manage to
finding the answers you need fast enough to use them, you need a Big Data
solution. Structured data and relational databases can also b... (more)
Bob Gourley, former CTO of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), is Founder and CTO of Crucial Point LLC, a technology research and advisory firm providing fact based technology reviews in support of venture capital, private equity and emerging technology firms. He has extensive industry experience in intelligence and security and was awarded an intelligence community meritorious achievement award by AFCEA in 2008, and has also been recognized as an Infoworld Top 25 CTO and as one of the most fascinating communicators in Government IT by GovFresh.
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