Weekly CRM Roundup: It’s All About The Data
Welcome to our roundup of customer relationship management (CRM) industry news from across the web. This week’s roundup is dedicated to all things data related! We’ll be hunting the ‘net for the latest and greatest, and bringing them to you here, in one convenient weekly post.
Does Your Company Need a Chief Data Officer?
In the era of big data, the one-title-fits-all technology roles are slowly diminishing. The need for a Chief Data Officer (CDO) is a quickly emerging topic being discussed particularly within the enterprise. A CDO would not own the data in and of itself, although they would be responsible for governing enterprise data and leveraging customer data as an asset. Does your company need a CDO? The answer may be, yes.
Turn Big Data into Smart Data: You’ll Have Happier Customers
Big data has no value. At least according to predictive analytics expert Ingo Mierswa, “To extract value from it, you have to employ advanced analytics. You can only unlock the true power of big data when you learn how to transform it into smart data, data that helps you understand why the world works as we know it.”
Completeness Is the New Black
How complete is your data, and are you collecting enough? Perhaps, the correct question to ask is: Are you collecting the right data? Denis Pombriant, managing principal of the Beagle Research Group explains, “We should all be aware that the bar is being raised for this next level of data collection, and we must understand the importance of completeness and relevance. It’s a competitive world, and getting to completeness before your competition might be the new black.”
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