Big Data: The long road to enlightenment
At this year’s Digital Cream event in London we hosted a series of roundtables discussing big data and, more specifically, ‘data-driven marketing’ alongside senior marketers in the industry.
The three sessions gave us a fantastic opportunity to talk about key issues in big data as well as tackling both widespread and sector specific problems.
Big data is such a contentious issue these days, mostly down to the overuse in marketing headlines and sound-bites. However, there was a serious desire from all attendees at Digital Cream to get to the crux of how the big data landscape is shifting and how to survive it.
The overwhelming view was that big data cannot be ignored and proactive steps must be taken to remain competitive. The only problem was – how?