Increasingly, ‘experts’ limit themselves by just giving their opinion. We saw this happening when CNN broadcast their opinion about Trump and his connections with Russia two hours before the press conference at 5 pm on Wednesday 11th January, 2017. CNN’s ‘breaking news’ resulted in complete chaos.
The statement above was made by Tarun Khanna in Harvard Business Review in both September and November 2014. Context is the background in which a future event takes place, it is often real or perceived and includes factors such as geography, genders, industries, job roles, attitudes, beliefs, values, politics, cultures, symbols, organizational climate, the past, personal ethics and the preferred future.
How can these systems-based organizations survive, when inspiration, passion, enthusiasm, motivation have faded away a long time ago? These organizations now jump on ‘big data’, however, although big data can gradually improve our abilities as we work with it, it does not grant instant omniscience, and is not an automatic cornucopia or substitute for insight. We have a much more crucial phenomenon available to us these days, ‘open data’.