Surdak, a technology consultant who specializes in collaboration and content management, information security, regulatory compliance, and cloud computing, examines the explosion of data in the world and where it is coming from, what is driving it, its impact, and how successful businesses will respond. He explains how the trends of mobility, increased interaction with people through the internet, digital commerce, online entertainment, cloud computing, and big data are driving the data crush; how businesses need to respond by making everything mobile, digitizing processes, making the business social, automating information governance, mining big content, and committing to the cloud; and the actions companies can take to prepare for the future: polarizing their approach to business, accelerating in response to customer expectation, putting data to work using metrics and measurement, quantification, making work seem like play, and crowdsourcing. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)