An IBMer comments on a key impediment to internalization of Big Data insights into an organization’s DNA (from Big Data called “the planet’s new natural resource”)

“The hardest thing to overcome is the 30-year veteran who says, ‘You can’t tell me anything that my gut doesn’t already tell me.’ ”

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Again, it is not about big data, exabytes or yottabytes, unstructured data, NoSQL DBs, distributed computing, and analytics thereof.   It just comes down to human biases and  inertia.