In your reading assignment on the Walmart case, the author stated that timely analysis of real-time data is seen as key to driving business performance (Marr, 2015, p. 6). Analyze your organizations capabilities to conduct real-time data analytics. You may also use an organization with which you are familiar.

What capabilities exist? How do those capabilities create business value? If the capabilities do not exist, what recommendations could you make to your selected organization toward implementing real-time data analytics?

Your initial post should be substantial, cite scholarly articles from the CSU Global library (Links to an external site.)according to the CSU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.), and help to generate further discussions and enhance the learning process.

You must make at least two substantive responses to your classmates’ posts. Respond to these posts in any of the following ways:

• Build on something a classmate said
• Explain why and how you see things differently
• Ask a probing or clarifying question
• Share an insight from having read your classmates’ postings
• Offer and support an opinion
• Validate an idea with your own experience
• Expand on your classmates’ postings
• Ask for evidence that supports the post