Big Questions on Big Data and HR- Akeem Gbadamosi

Business executives sometime asked, isn’t big data just another way of saying analytics?Its true that they are related: The big data movement, like analytics before it, seek to glean intelligence from data and translate that into business advantage.The saying of W. Edwards Deming and Peter Drucker, You can manage what you don’t measure rings true has explains why the recent explosion of digital data is so important. Simply put, because of big data, managers can measure, and hence know radically more about their businesses, and directly translate that knowledge into improved decision making and performance.Some of the questions:Is it evident that using big data intelligently will improve business performance?Would the use of big data enables managers to decide on the basis of evidence rather than intuition?How does your organizational culture impact big data initiatives?Who own the responsibility of big data in the organization? Is it HR, IT, or The business?Can organization overcome the five management challenges in order to reap the full benefits of their transition to using big data?Rotarian TM Akeem Gbadamosi, M.Sc Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management.Chief Executive Officer, First-Goldmine Consulting (An Human Resource Management and Development Services Firm) and Convener, Centre for Human Resource Emancipation (C4HRE)