The Growth Machine

Category: Big Data

  • Marketing Needs Growth Planning Not Media Planning

    Marketing Needs Growth Planning Not Media Planning

     Marketing Needs Growth Planning Not Media Planning Marketing Now Means Growth Evolution in data and technology has changed the world of marketing. Marketing’s impact is now quantified, measureable and attributable. It is not just impact top of the funnel brand awareness but the lower half as well driving performance – conversion, retention and GROWTH. Marketing…

  • Sports, Corruption & The Era of Sports Management Platforms

    After much deliberation, I had to give in and write something that brings my 2 passions in life together – sports & technology. Couldn’t have found a better timing than this, the richest cricket league in the world gets hit by the worst corruption scandal in India, just when a new breed of Sports Management…

  • mOS – Marketing Operating System | A Vision Part II

    As the year ends, a lot gets written on what worked and what did not work through the year and more interestingly “predictions” for what’s going to follow. As we kick start our digital & marketing efforts for 2013, a lot of expectations have been set around innovation & expansion of key marketing trends: Big…

  • The Ecommerce Guide to Big Data [Infographic]

    The Ecommerce Guide to Big Data [Infographic]

    “Big Data” has been touted as the next “big thing” in ecommerce. But according to research by Edgell Knowledge Network, only 47% of retailers understand how to apply Big Data to their business. We can expect non-retail ecommerce to be similar.Big Data refers to a large set of data too complex to be handled by…

  • Global Mobile Commerce Trends [Infographic]

    Global Mobile Commerce Trends [Infographic]

    This week’s infographic looks at global trends in mobile commerce for smartphones and tablets. Mobify analyzed 200 million visitors to mobile commerce sites.Click to enlarge infographicNot surprising, China and India lead the charge in use of mobile devices, but I expected Japan and South Korea to be up there.Tweetable stats:Australian mobile traffic to #ecommerce sites…

  • BIG DATA – More Than Just BIG!!!

    If all the hype & deluge of headlines, articles & advanced analytics and reporting material is anything to go by, BIG DATA is the next big thing. At times you may even wonder what have we been doing in the name of analytics & insight generation thus far. So how much of the hype is…

  • Why is Big Data Revolutionary?

    Originally published by: ZDNet » Tech on 2012-04-10 21:29 PDT by Andrew Brust Summary: Big Data is revolutionary, and not merely the evolution of BI and data warehousing technology. Here’s why. Last week, Dan Kusnetzky and I participated in a ZDNet Great Debate titled “Big Data: Revolution or evolution?” As you might expect, I advocated…

  • A Conversation On The Role Of Big Data In Marketing And Customer Service

    Big data is here! And, marketers are one of the professional groups that stand to gain the most from these new-found capabilities to analyze data that, until recently, would have been too complex to capture, store and make sense of. Behind the hype lies a golden opportunity for marketers and customer service to help their…