The technology is developing every passing day; people are getting introduced to various techniques. Such thing helps in solving various issues that are being ignored for a long time due to lack of sources and resources. Just like that, data storage is something that is too tacky and hassle-filled work for any organization.
http://customerthink.com/big-data-vs-traditional-data-what-to-know-when-it-comes-to-defines-big-data/
One of the things that almost everyone of us does is to optimize. We optimise our time, our money and at times even our relationships. We want maximum efficiency in almost everything that we do. In organisations, we compensate sales guys on sales made, product managers on product development, marketing folks on leads generated, manufacturing folks on operational efficiency. Everywhere we look, we can find efforts to maximise efficiency in that part. This, in general, is our attempt to gain local optima. We try to reach optimal performance in that specific domain with no regards to the effect it has on the global performance.
This is why we have sales teams ending up selling something that is easier to sell than selling one that the company strategy is betting its future on. This is why we have manufacturing teams producing more stock of an item then needed to improve their operational efficiency. This is the reason why we have well-meaning folks from Dell outsource everything to their Chinese suppliers leading to the disruption of Dell as the leader of the PC revolution.
http://customerthink.com/to-succeed-optimise-the-one-variable-that-matters/