By Matt Goodman, President-Global Trade Management, Livingston International
There’s been much ado about the impact of Big Data and the degree to which corporations and their IT departments are adequately prepared to harvest the full potential of the information they generate on a daily basis.
At the same time, the advent of Big Data has unquestionably and irreversibly transformed the role of business technology managers away from day-to-day infrastructure maintenance and upgrades toward a critical executive function rooted in strategic business planning.
These concurrent trends will become of paramount importance to organizations with global supply chains over the next few years.