— The Thinking of Bill Schmarzo —

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 Dean of Big Data Press The Thinking of Bill Schmarzo

Org & Culture

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Org & Culture

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The Human Side of Data Science - with Bill Schmarzo ("the Dean of Big Data")

Most companies spend heavily on data infrastructure while remaining blind to the economics that would make that investment pay off. Schmarzo's framework names the gap precisely.

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98% of Companies Stuck in Retrospective Data Use, Schmarzo's Index FindsThe 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

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Schmarzo's Five-Phase Model Puts Cultural Transformation — Not Technology — at the TopSchmarzo's maturity framework moves through five phases: monitoring, predicting individual-level insights, optimising operations using prescriptive analytics, monetising those insights to identify market 'white spaces', and finally transformation — a state in which data's economi

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Chipotle's 7% Sales Target Becomes a Teaching Model for Pre-Scientific Data ThinkingUsing Chipotle's publicly stated goal of increasing same-store sales by 7% as a classroom case, Schmarzo walks students through an eight-step process he calls 'thinking like a data scientist' — identifying stakeholders, decisions, success metrics, and candidate data sources befor