Appendix

Big Data Readiness Assessment Survey

This assessment survey can be used to determine your organization’s readiness for big data projects. It follows the DELTTA model described in chapter 6. There are five questions for each of the DELTTA factors. Each can be answered with a Likert scale response similar to the following:

  1. Disagree strongly
  2. Disagree somewhat
  3. Neither agree nor disagree
  4. Agree somewhat
  5. Agree strongly

Unless there is some reason to weight some questions or areas more than others, I would recommend averaging the scores within each DELTTA factor to create an overall score. It may also be useful to combine the factor scores to create an overall readiness score.

The following questions are largely modified from a set used ...

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