Top 3 Ways to Crunch Big Data Into Big Dollars
Note: This is our second blog in our 2-part series on crunching Big Data. If you find this information interesting, be sure to check out part 1 on Big Data & Product Groups as well.
Many are sold on the idea that Big Data provides Retail Demand Intelligence (RDI) and that employing RDI with demand forecasting and inventory optimization will return retail to profitability. The startling truth is that 70-80% of Big Data BI projects fail; typically, we only learn about these projects when we see multi-million dollar accounting write-offs or when cell phone video of winter fur coats in a Hawaii department store shows up on YouTube.
Why was this happening? Perhaps the better question of “Why?” was rooted in the data analysis tools that were used to group products and locations together for allocation and assortment planning. How do we avoid this situation?
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