If only you had a research team devoted to the issues most important to you. Well, in some ways you do.

MSCI periodically completes research reports on issues critical to the success of industrial metals. We engage the sharpest minds and the most diligent experts to produce a direct, succinct look at disruptive forces affecting your work.

2016 - Managing the Avalanche of Big Data and Digital Business Analytics

Futurists and Silicon Valley tech gurus often grope for superlatives when describing the “exponential” upward trend in the digitization of our society. It’s increasing, they say, not in a straight line, like so many 20th century advances, but in huge upward swoops. The world is fast becoming a vast grid of digitized data points. There are sensors in factory machines, algorithms shadowing our emails, cars that chatter away like village gossips, accessible profiles of you and me and your next-door neighbor on Facebook and LinkedIn, and much more. And it’s all getting connected.

Big Data, and its first cousins Information Analytics and the Internet of Things, are already revolutionizing processes and business models in advanced sectors of the metals industry. Clearly it is an opportune moment for metals service centers to look carefully at their business models and operations to adapt to this flood of new technology.