This document discusses how businesses can take advantage of new technologies like superfast broadband, mobile, cloud computing, social media, and data analytics. It recommends that businesses understand these trends, adopt digital technologies, and run "bimodal" operations with both planned and agile components. The Get Up to Speed program provides support and training to help businesses in Devon and Somerset understand and exploit opportunities from superfast broadband.
2. Roll out
• Roll out in Devon and Somerset has reached 110,000 properties
and is rolling out at around 5000 premises per week
• OECD have listed the South West as having the best broadband
in the UK currently
• How will businesses start to use what they have got?
3. What is Get up to speed?
• Fully funded business and community support alongside roll-out
of superfast broadband
• Businesses to understand, adopt and exploit the opportunity
Superfast Broadband offers
• Activity includes boardroom briefings, staff engagement,
business workshops, community awareness events and more
• Delivered by Cosmic Peninsula Consortium
5. Setting the scene
• The world is being transformed by a series of profound
technological changes - Second machine age
• Digital technology is changing all of our lives, the way we work,
our society and our politics
• Over the next 20 years, 35% of jobs will become automated*
and the skills need of our staff will change significantly
*House of Lords Digital Skills Paper 2015
6. And the pace of change is unprecedented
Knowledge Doubling Curve
• 1900s, Knowledge doubled every century
• 1940s, knowledge doubled every 25 years
• Currently, knowledge doubling every 13 months
• Soon, every 12 hours?
‘Transition from the linear growth to exponential growth of
human knowledge has taken place.’
Source: Buckminster Fuller and IBM, Harvard University Jeff Lichtman
http://www.futuristgerd.com/2014/07/16/knowledge-doubling-every-12-months-soon-to-be-
every-12-hours-via-industry-tap/
7. ‘There is a growing
disconnect between our
increasingly non-linear
world and the linear
mindsets and practices
that we deploy in our
work’
10. Gartner’s Digital Dragon
• We need business leaders to understand that to compete in the
21st Century they need to tame the digital dragon.
• They need to respond to ongoing needs for efficiency and
growth by renovating the core of their IT
• Whilst learning to Shift to exploit a fundamentally different
digital paradigm which includes the worlds of social, mobile,
cloud and data
• Running a Bimodal business – Two speed IT
11. Bimodal business
Reliability
Planned, high ceremony
Long term suppliers
Conventional projects
IT centric – removed from customers
Long cycles of procurement
Agility
Agile, low ceremony
Small new vendors
New and uncertain projects
Business centric, close to customer
Short cycles of procurement
14. Mobile facts
• Mobiles now outnumber people – 4 to 3
• iPhone sales outpace births
• More people own a mobile that a toothbrush
• 90% of tweets are from mobiles
• Mobile searches are up 400%
• 70% of mobile searches lead to action in an hour
• We have our phone in reach for 14 hours a day on average
• Mobile is blurring business and leisure time
18. Google Places and Now?
• The design is heavily focused on
Google Now cards notifications and
is focused on bringing contextual
information to users. For example,
business travellers will have access
to their flight status, boarding
pass, hotel address, and the
weather at their destination.
Additionally, it shows health
notifications, such as heart rate,
that have been important in many
wearable campaigns
19. Augmented reality is growing….
Marketing to near-site visitors – your reputation is important
22. Internet of things
• Machine to machine communication
• Ordinary things connected to the internet
25. "A business model which
doesn't have a reach to a
mobile device is going to
dwindle away and
become obsolete."
Jason Fisher, owner, BestLifeRates.org
27. Cloud - democratising IT
• All businesses now have the option
of using software, hardware and
networks that was previously
prohibitive
28. Cloud benefits
Features/Functions Server Cloud
Procurement Can take months Can be immediate
Budget CAPEX, inflexible OPEX, flexible
Operations & maintenance Complex None or simple
Reliability Single point of failure redundancy
Security Medium High
Technology Ages quickly Frequently updated
Deployment Complex Simple
39. How can we help?
• Fully funded business and community support alongside roll-out
of superfast broadband
• boardroom briefings
• staff engagement
• business workshops
• community awareness events and more
• Get in touch – info@get-up-to-speed.co.uk
Thanks
Notas del editor
When we are talking about digital here, we are referencing IT and digital together as interchangeable words. Not IT back end digital front end, as we believe those days are over. It’s all digital after all.
people the skills they need to work alongside the astonishing technologies
So once, when leanring facts was considered the peak of intellectualism, this won’t be important anymore.
Back in the 1980s Buckminster Fuller created the “Knowledge Doubling Curve.” Industry Tap writes, “Until 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the end of World War II knowledge was doubling every 25 years. Today things are not as simple as different types of knowledge have different rates of growth. . . . But on average human knowledge is doubling every 13 months.” And that rate will increase exponentially. IBM theorizes it could someday become every 12 hours.
map the human brain, has calculated that several billion petabytes of data storage would be needed to index the entire human brain. The Internet is currently estimated to be 5 million terabytes (TB) of which Google has indexed roughly 200 TB or just .004% of its total size
None of these businesses existed 10 years ago. Only one existed 5 years ago
The design is heavily focused on Google Now cards notifications and is focused on bringing contextual information to users. For example, business travellers will have access to their flight status, boarding pass, hotel address, and the weather at their destination. Additionally, it shows health notifications, such as heart rate, that have been important in many wearable campaigns
Value add 1.9trillion dollars by 2020
Gartner states that the combination of data streams and services created by digitizing everything creates four basic usage models: manage, monetize, operate and extend. Enterprises should not limit themselves to thinking that only the Internet of Things (assets and machines) has the potential to leverage these four models. For example, the pay-per-use model can be applied to assets such as industrial equipment, services such as pay-as-you-drive insurance, people such as movers, places such as parking spots and systems such as cloud services. Enterprises from all industries can leverage these four models.
Computing Everywhere
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Mobile becomes ubiquitous – and businesses will have to engage with the technology in news ways – customer support, flexible delivery, flexible working for staff
Using data, information, feedback and other sources will mean businesses can generate multiple data-sets to help with business development – big data truly becomes a part of everyday business
convergence in cloud and mobile computing continues
Business see 20% growth year on year – medium sized business
Steel cable maker in Somerset
Netsuite – ERP & E Commerce – Core business software - ERP financial control and E-commerce fully integrated, HR, expenses
Google Apps – Replaced Office Base Server
DropBox for Teams – Storage
Trello – Project Management
Evernote – Knowledge Base – internal
Wordpress – Microsites
Infusion soft – CRM Marketing Automation & Email Marketing
Hybrid computing refers to the coordination and combination of external cloud computing services (public or private) and internal infrastructure or application services. Over time, hybrid cloud computing could lead to a unified model in which there is a single "cloud" made up of multiple cloud platforms (internal or external) that can be used, as needed, based on changing business requirements. Gartner recommends that enterprises focus near-term efforts on application and data integration, linking fixed internal and external applications with a hybrid solution. Where public cloud application services or custom applications running on public cloud infrastructures are used, guidelines and standards should be established for how these elements will combine with internal systems to form a hybrid environment.
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Twitter retains about 154TB data a year. In 1980 this would have cost – same as the Apollo Space Programme $140bn. Now in 2014 coats £6k
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