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# Mining the Field of Big Data Strategies
- URL: https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/mining-the-field-of-big-data-strategies/
- Published: 2013-11-04T00:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-27T07:33:48.000Z
- Description: Nowadays it is not so much the Big Data technologies the create problems when implementing Big Data Strategies, it is the culture that creates the issues.
- Author: Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP
- Tags: Big Data, Strategy

More and more organisations understand by now the need for a [big data](https://www.thedigitalspeaker.com/big-data-speaker/) platform, but they have difficulties actually developing and implementing a big data strategy. John Akred, CTO of Silicon Valley Data Science, discusses how companies can become more data-driven companies and how they should develop a big data strategy. Nowadays, the problem is not so much anymore the immaturity of the technology, but more importantly the organisational and cultural issues.

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