Big data: Who's afraid of the big bad data?

While 75 per cent of the highest-performing organisations cite growth or innovation as the chief value of business analytics, almost the same number said political or executive resistance was the main barrier to realising the full value of their investments.

The upside of a survey carried out by IBM was that almost 40 per cent of companies see a return on investment within the first six months, but the lack of executive support ...