Big Data Technology Is Key Strategic Tie That Binds Posted on : Apr 27 - 2015

“As head of strategy for a public company I work on a very diverse set of issues and they can be operational or strategic in nature,” explained Kumsal Bayazit, Chief Strategy Officer of  RELX Group in an extensive interview. The company is owned by two parent companies Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV ENL -0.12% and was recently renamed RELX Group. RELX is home to hundreds of critical information products and dozens of companies that are used globally by such professionals as scientists, lawyers, doctors and researchers.

Bayazit, who has been at RELX/Reed Elsevier in strategy for eleven years, three of them as Corporate CSO, describes her work in running RELX’s strategic efforts as falling into three distinct areas.

Technology. “It’s not necessarily typical, but I lead technology coordination across RELX Group business areas working  with our four CTOs. We focus on online product development, digital content creation and big data technologies to drive analytics for our customers.”  View more