— The Thinking of Bill Schmarzo —
Articles addressing the human side of transformation—leadership, data silos, incentive design, talent strategy, and why culture outranks technology as the key barrier.
The central finding of Bill Schmarzo's Big Data Business Model Maturity Index is that roughly 98% of organisations remain trapped in what he calls the 'business monitoring' phase — using data only to look backward at what has already happened, rather than to predict or prescribe future action. The o
The decisive advantage in data science belongs not to the largest organisations but to the most agile ones, according to Schmarzo. Mid-sized companies, he argues, carry a structural edge precisely because their data science initiatives report closer to the CEO, cutting through the organisational sil