Organizations are constantly under cost pressures and particularly so when it comes to newer investments in their IT. But what if you could create a whole new revenue stream out of such investments, harnessing the newest resource available to you? Yes, we're talking about "Monetizing your data". As attractive as the proposition sounds, it is not such a simple, straightforward task. To begin with, do you know your data? Do you know where it lies in your organization? Have you made attempts to collect and organize it? Have you analyzed it to make sense of what's possible with it?
In cognitive computing era, new revenue generation stream has emerged with data at center of the modern digital business model. One of the key capabilities cognitive computing enables for an organization is the ability to generate additional revenue streams by using data effectively. In the big data world we call it data monetization. The internal data monetization has already done amazing job at transforming business in all verticals by improving customer experience, enabling more personalized marketing and sales, deterring fraud and so on.
The emergence of big data has shown to transform professions and industries. We are seeing big data doing wonders with cost optimization and enhancing customer experience. We are increasingly seeing a growing trend among our customers to create new revenue streams with big data. Customers ranging from banks, telecommunication providers, energy and utilities companies and retailers have potential to earn new revenues from the vast amount of data they hold. Each of these businesses are experimenting with different ways to monetize the value of the data they gather during their normal operations. Each are expecting to make considerable revenues based upon the difference between the cost of collecting and storing the data, and what the insights and outcomes can be sold for.
As per the McKinsey Global Institute report on “Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity,” big data can create as much as $700 billion in value to consumer and business end users. Capturing this value will require the right enablers, including sufficient investment in technology, infrastructure and personnel as well as appropriate government action.
The Economic Times Live Webinar in association with IBM will share detail steps you could take to ultimately help your IT department turn from being just a cost center into a revenue generating one.
