CEOs Should Treat Brexit as the First Big Shock of the Big Data Era

The average age of large company chief executives is over 50. That means they have seen and navigated quite a few global economic and macro environment shock moments through their managerial careers and several in this century already – such as 9/11, the $145 oil spike and the Arab Spring. CEOs will rely on patterns and experiences from those prior episodes to help find their way through the unfolding repercussions of the Brexit vote. However, from a technology-related viewpoint, one thing makes Brexit rather different; this time we have ‘big data’.