Now, you have a good understanding of most of the changes in your world that Big Data is causing. Right away, the question is how do you take all of these changes and manage them for your business. There are many change-management methodologies and frameworks that you can adopt as well. Holger Nauheimer, a famed change management consultant and author, has created a collection of tools, methodologies, and strategies for change management titled The Change Management Toolbook, which is actually available for free download.

We have not found any specific ones developed for Big Data initiatives. We will now introduce a framework called IMMERSE to help you manage the changes. IMMERSE stands for Identify, Modulate, Mitigate, Role play, Educate, Show, and finally Effect; we believe these are the various stages an individual or a team has to go through in the change process. This framework is a progressive sequential one, which you should run in iterations...