Driving Business Success: Harnessing Data Normalization and Aggregation for Strategic Decision-Making
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Big Data, Data analytics, Role of data in business, decision makingAbstract
The rapid exponential growth of data has revolutionized the nature of business operations to facilitate data-driven decision-making as a keystone of organizational prosperity. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of such decisions heavily relies on the quality and format of the base data. Data normalization and aggregation are two pivotal processes that ensure data is accurate, consistent, and actionable. The following paper examines the crucial role of these processes in strategic decision-making. Data normalization provides uniformity by eliminating redundancies and inconsistencies, and data aggregation merges information to produce summarized results. Both allow companies to optimize operations, improve forecasting performance, and adopt customer-centric business strategies.
By a comprehensive study of current literature, this paper recognizes the important challenges of, for instance, high implementation cost, loss of data, and complexity of working with big data sets. It also reviews the advantages of data normalization and aggregation over industries like retail, finance, and healthcare. For example, normalized inventory information helps retailers manage the supply chain better, whereas aggregated transaction data helps financial institutions identify fraud more effectively. Similarly, normalized patient records in healthcare enhance predictive analysis, ultimately leading to better patient outcomes.
The research findings highlight the revolutionary capability of these processes to propel operational effectiveness and innovation. They illustrate how companies can effectively respond to ever-changing market scenarios, make knowledge-based decisions, and deliver improved customer experiences. This paper presents useful insights into the real-world applications of data normalization and aggregation by filling some of the current research gaps. It provides recommendations for practical consideration in future studies in data management. It stresses that strategic deployment of these processes is not merely a technical requirement but an organizational competitive advantage in pursuit of excellence in an information age.
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