Shankar Radhakrishnan!@shankariyer!in.linkedin.com/in/shankariyer

Big Data Roadmap To Rollout Strategies

2014 Big Data Week Conference, Chennai.

Topics✴ Big Data Today!✴ Strategies!

✴ Challenges, Opportunities!✴ Plan The Run!✴ Roadmap To Rollout!✴ Governance!

✴ Q & A

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Big Data

Source: IDC

Total Data Creation & Replication

2013: 4.2 Trillion Gigabytes"3

Challenges vs. Opportunities✴ “How?” vs. “Why?”!

✴ Big Data for Business, than just for IT!

✴ Business Case Justification!

✴ Right Partner’s For Your Big Data Journey!

✴ Evangelization and Alignment!

✴ Business Onboarding!

✴ Execution Plan And Course Corrections!

✴ Talent and Knowledge Management!

✴ Right math for ROI!

✴ Hype, Buzz & Myth

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Crawl, Walk and Run✴ When to start ?!

✴ Big Data Landscape!

✴ Impact On Current Business Processes!

✴ Impact on Current Ecosystem!

✴ Where to start ?!

✴ Business use cases!

✴ IT use cases!

✴ Top-Down vs. Organic Initiatives

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Planning✴ Set and evangelize “business vision”!

✴ Define core initiatives and supporting ones!

✴ Define what a “data driven organization” means!

✴ Check current state of things!

✴ Do data oriented gap analysis!

✴ Setup focus groups to identify use cases!

✴ Classify ideas from a business use case!

✴ Set time lines to get isolate actionable insights!

✴ Evangelize refined mission!

✴ Align business groups

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Roadmap✴ Get management buy-in and approvals!

✴ Plan for programs on awareness, training, work-shops!

✴ Define and prioritize use-cases!

✴ Build multi-disciplinary teams!

✴ Define measurement and success criteria!

✴ Define path-to-production, POC, POV!

✴ Put together Big Data program’s investment strategies!

✴ Define and share ROI!

✴ Build Big Data program pipeline!

✴ Put together program support mechanism!

✴ Setup program review process and governance

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Timeline

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Define Strategy!Get Approvals!Timeline : 4-6 weeks

Create awareness!Conduct workshops!Reach out to business groups!Timeline : 4-6 weeks

ID and prioritize use cases!ID pilot and POC programs!Collaborate with partners to plan pilot programs!Timeline : 3-4 weeks

Build initial investment plan!ID business sponsor’s!Align business and IT strategies!Timeline : 4-6 weeks

Scope pilot programs!Build POC implementation plan!ID business, IT, technical POC teams!ID program owners!Set pilot’ criteria!Timeline : 3-4 weeks

Create focus groups to build use cases!Explore industry use cases!Explore implementation scenarios!ID partners and alliances!Do impact assessment!Timeline : 8-12 weeks

Run pilot!Analyze pilot results!Share pilot results!Plan for pilot recommendations!Timeline : 4-6 weeks

Build production plan!Plan production investments!Timeline : 4-6 weeks

Production Rollout

Understand The Impact✴ Impact on business processes!

✴ Impact on current IT eco system!

✴ Impact on your data providers!

✴ Impact on your data processes!

✴ Impact on your data consumers!

✴ Impact on your partners!

✴ Impact on your finances!

✴ Impact on your sales, marketing strategies!

✴ Impact on your customers, products and services

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Governance✴ Importance of a governance model!

✴ Vision, Mission, Objectives, Goals!

✴ Business Alignment!

✴ Data Ownership!

✴ Operating Model!

✴ Policies and Procedures!

✴ Measurement and Monitoring!

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Q & A