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Tom Raftery
Bullet points - sorry!
More Bullet points on this slide than on the rest of the entire deck!
Prob won’t have time for q’s at end - will hang around but here are my contact details in case you can’t stay
3. 3
What I had for breakfast?
Photo - http://www.flickr.com/photos/zanehollingsworth/3435030263/
People often belittle Social Media saying - it is full of ppl saying what they had for breakfast
How many ppl empathise?
4. 4
What I had for breakfast?
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/bd5a5ce2-aa57-11e1-899d-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2OAlD9lav
Good article with lots of big data references in general
T-Mobile in US analysed its 33m customer data records, web logs, billing data and social media information to predict customer defections
It halved customer defections in a single quarter
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Greying workforce
Photo credit http://www.flickr.com/photos/goflorp/3865042877/
Recruitment issues urgent because
In the U.S. energy sector, more than a third of the workforce already is over 50 years old - http://hbr.org/2008/02/managing-demographic-risk/ar/1
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: In the US approx 30-40% of the work force in the electric utility sector will retire in the next 10 years
And aging infrastructure
33. 33
Energy Management
What-if Energy apps had:
•Ability to share to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc
•Leaderboards?
•Achievement badges?
•Targets and scores?
With increased information and ‘fun factor’ - people become more engaged -> the MTKD is prolonged