Insurers' journeys to build a mastery in the IoT usage
Marc Girardot Discusses Promises and Perils of IT
1. Visiting Professor Marc Girardot | Promises & Perils of I.T. | 7/8/13 3:38 PM Slide 1
Promises and Perils of I.T.
in collaboration with
Marc Girardot
Visiting Professor
3. Visiting Professor Marc Girardot | Promises & Perils of I.T. | 7/8/13 3:38 PM Slide 27
Overall, the context of I.T. today is often sub-
optimal, when not counter-productive
Business Side
— Limited to no knowledge in I.T.
— Uncomfortable with I.T.
— Fear of the unknown
— Distrust of I.T.
— Rarely a C-level topic
— Helpdesk mentality
— Viewed as relatively reliable, but not
innovative
— I.T. is expensive
— I.T. isn’t sexy socially
Information Technology Side
— They don’t get it!
— Our budget are getting smaller to do
more and more
— Don’t have the resources (…to
recruit, reward and develop top
talent)
— Have little understanding of business
(not ambidextrous)
— Limited capacity to communicate
4. Visiting Professor Marc Girardot | Promises & Perils of I.T. | 7/8/13 3:38 PM Slide 28
What are at the possible root causes of this Divide?
Dynamics of the IT/Business Divide
(Proposal)
5. Visiting Professor Marc Girardot | Promises & Perils of I.T. | 7/8/13 3:38 PM Slide 30
With maturity of I.T., platforms are made
possible…
— Stable
— Functionality resilient
— Standardization
— Open technologies
— Cost efficient
— Quality
— Standards
— More inter-operability
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6. Visiting Professor Marc Girardot | Promises & Perils of I.T. | 7/8/13 3:38 PM Slide 37
Source: BCG, HBR
And the Internet has already become a huge
part of the economy
7. Visiting Professor Marc Girardot | Promises & Perils of I.T. | 7/8/13 3:38 PM Slide 40
Promise n°1
Building the next generation company for a
complex high-pace world with I.T.
Time Pressure
Complexity
Time
Acceleration
Technology
Avalanche
Globalization
Customer
Demands
Regulations
Structure IT Process IT People ITTools IT
Empowerment IT
Culture IT
Industrialize IT
Out-task IT
Automate IT
Simplify IT
Train IT
Communicate IT
Collaborate IT
Efficiency IT
8. Visiting Professor Marc Girardot | Promises & Perils of I.T. | 7/8/13 3:38 PM Slide 59
Promise n°8
Information technology will try to progressively
integrate with nature’s own I.T.
Integrating nature
into I.T.
Integrating I.T. into
nature
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9. Visiting Professor Marc Girardot | Promises & Perils of I.T. | 7/8/13 3:38 PM Slide 66
Peril n°5
Thinking the disruptors will forget you and that you
are protected
— The Google Car or Tesla
symptom
— Leveraging I.T. maturity along
with leading-edge knowledge
— New ways of organizing
— More focused funding
— Mutualization
— Specialization
— I.T. money and philosophy
into Auto ventures
— “Doing things differently”
Figure 1: Comparison of Top 50 Automotive and High-Tech companies
Source: “Electronics-ization of the Automobile industry”, M.Girardot, Cisco IBSG
Figure 2: Google’s self-driving car earns a driver’s license in Nevada