There are three classes of business models for leveraging data:1) Data as a Competitive Advantage (use of Data, advanced analytics and data science capabilities create competitive advantage.)2) Data as Improvement of Existing products or services 9Use of data into exiting offerings, effectively differentiating the value in the market.)3) Data as the Product (this class of business is a step beyond utilizing data for competitive advantage or plugging data into existing products.) Data becomes the asset or product to be monetized.)
Big Data Revolution:
The ability to suspend disbelief of what is possible, and create own definition of possible
An inherent knowledge of pattern recognition and the insight to apply patterns from one industry or dimension to another that may be seemingly unrelated
Commitment to one-percent improvement in every aspect related to DATA
Combining these seemingly different characteristics and applying them creates possibilities previously undetected. By empowering ourselves with data and believing we can discover the undiscovered, we can launch businesses and industries to new levels.
Industrial Internet: Pushing the boundaries of Minds and Machines!
Thinking, small gains in performance can have a huge impact on overall results. This phenomenon where a simple 1 percent in fuel savings, for example , could drive $30 billion of value over 15-year period!
Software being the primary enabler of Wave 3. The software not only will analyze the data gathered from the machines, but also will provide the tools to manage the machines themselves! This is why GE is making a huge bet in software when many people believed it was perhaps non-core to their business.
Data has the power to create new businesses and even new industries. The challenge is that there are many biases about the use of data in a business.
There is a view that data is just about analytics or reporting. In this scenario, it’s relegated to providing insight about the business. There is another view, that data is simply an input into existing products. In this case, data would be used to enrich a current business process, but not necessarily change the process. While these cases are both valid, the power of the Data era enables much greater innovation than simply these incremental approaches!
Digital Transformation is driven by 4 key questions about Digital reality revolving around answers to these questions:
Technology & Innovation is presenting organizations with a whole new treasure trove of data that wasn’t either available or accessible before. Characterized by the 3Vs, this new data set is enabling real-time actionable insights across the the spectrum of industry verticals, coining the phrase “Data is the New Oil”
The Method for Applying Big Data Patterns to Decision-Making
Understanding Data Assets - Locate, catalog, and assess the potential of, all relevant data inside and outside the organization
Explore the Data - Applying a rigorous approach of searching for statistical significance
Design for Future - Use the implications of data exploration to either make better decisions, design a new business model, or redesign current business processes
Design a Data-driven Business Model - If appropriate, design a business model to take advantage of the new data discovery
Transform Business Processes for the Data era – If appropriate, redesign existing business processes to capitalize on the new Insights from steps 1 and 2
Design for Governance and Security – Understand the impact of leveraging new insights and data assets, comprehending the implications of privacy and data usage
Share Metrics and Incentives – Develop a system to ensure KPIs are measured
About the Oil:
Exploration: Without finding oil sands, or another source of crude., and hence petroleum, the process can never begin
Drilling: While exploration requires tools such as geospatial maps and visualizations, drilling requires a rotary drill and insertion of a pipe
Recovery: Pipes and valves are installed into the rock to ensure the proper extraction of the crude oil. The pipes are connected to a recovery system, which separates the oil & gas
Distillation: Fractional distillation is the processes of removing gasoline from other compounds in the crude oil. The process of heating crude oil, letting it vaporize, and then condensing the vapor, prior to the refining
Refining: The most important processes in the manufacturing of oil. Catalysts are added to the crude oil to ensure that the oil is useable
Additives: Chemical are added to ensure performance of the finished product
Transportation: The last step in the process is about ensuring that the finished product is delivered to a location for consuming
About the Data:
Exploration - Data can be anywhere internal to organization and external
Drilling - Use of right tools and approach
Recovery - Strategy to recover and extract the data and movement to right users
Distillation - consuming poor quality data can cripple an organization
Refining - This is where data is turned into action
Additives - Data can be enriched, with 3rd party data or simply through human aided curation
Transporting - Data must be in the right place, at the moment of a decision for high impact
Business Decision Cycle Depends on Answers to Questions that Drive Business Performance
Established reports, scorecards and dashboards monitor the business metrics to find answer to how are we doing? Reporting and analysis provides the ability to look at historic static data and understand trends, to look at anomalies and understand why? Planning and forecasting help establish a reliable view of the future and answer what should we be doing? Integrating these capabilities allows to respond to changes happening in your business.
Data Management and Advanced Analytics is at the core of building adaptive capabilities into business competitive strategy and the four key aspects of Digital Transformation will determine your success..
Signal Advantage: Can we receive and interpret what our customers, partners, employees, infrastructure and other key stakeholders in our ecosystem are sending?
Experimentation advantage: Do all facets of the organization have the ability to “experiment” from a cultural, systems and organizational point of view?
Organizational Advantage: Can the company respond quickly with nimble and teams that support “variation” in products and business processes that enable adaptation?
Systems advantage: Has the organization established a comprehensive and integrated systems infrastructure that support the flow of information, experimentation and adaptive learning?
Modern Information Management Architectures address a wide range of data inputs. More importantly effective organizations know how to go beyond reporting and structure information output along different information streams that enable data-driven decisions and drive business value.
Customers should “re-think” the Analytics & Data Management strategy to deliver context-driven information to the relevant stakeholders, via its modern execution framework ( Key Business Vectors), enabling data-driven business decisions
Industry Domain Expertise
Data Management
Analytics & Insights
Advanced Analytics w/ML
Cloud Implementation Solutions
Managed Analytics Program
Managed Cloud Analytics Platform
Enterprise Analytical Apps
Understanding the Logical View and Technical Capabilities to Support the Business View
Data Ingest - Provides the technology to collect, ingest, process, and pre-analyze data
Analytics - This is where the heavy lifting is done to extract value from data assets. Analytics requires three distinct capabilities around Discovery, Landing, and Operational Warehouse
Information Insight - This layer is the interface to users, business sponsors, and the primary consumption vehicle
Operational Data - The traditional data repositories, augmented with new capabilities for entity resolution and data matching
Governance - Incorporating security, along with risk management, ensures the stability, continuity, and sustainability of the data architecture
Understanding The Business View Components as Organizations Evolve to the Data Area:
User Interface, Applications, and Business Processes - This is what the business users see as they interact with the big data infrastructure
Data Governance - Ensures that data assets are managed like other assets, and must be secured, and managed, over their lifetime, and available for interrogation as required
Management - Primary point of operation and orchestration for the IT team.
Answer Fabric -This is the brain of the data architecture for analytics capabilities to wow the users and drive business value to the organization
Data Virtualization - A requirement to ensure all data assets are utilized and prevents data from having to be moved physically
Data Engine - If the answer fabric is the brain, the data engines are the nervous system, delivering the inputs to the brains so that the brain can take action
Farming and Agriculture -
Insurance -
Financial Services -
Medical -
Retail/CPG and Fashion -
Customer service -
Intelligent Machines -
Government and Society -
Corporate Sustainability –
Weather and Energy
1700s (Subsistence Farming)
1800s (Farming for Profit)
Early 1900s (Power Farming)
Mid – to Late 1900s (Machine Farming)
Now, the application of Data! Geospatial Information and beyond.
The basic idea that a plant needs sunlight, nutrients from the soil, and water to grow into a healthy plant.
The ability to monitor, control, and if necessary , alert the processes
The advantage driven by intangibles: Knowledge, insight, decision making. Ultimately, data is the fertilizer for each of these intangibles.
Historical approaches to Medicine, treatments, and wellness are not relevant in Data Era
Decisions based on opinions instead of facts, leads to suboptimal outcomes
Leaders in medicine use data
Today’s medical industry that starts with the collection of data and end with science-based analytics of that data is very different than the past.
The transformation impacting every aspect of healthcare; Biotech, Pharma, Payors, Providers, Patients
Scientific method:
Formulation of a question
Hypothesis
Prediction
Testing
Analysis
Enhanced curriculum from anatomy, Biochemistry, Genetics, Microbiology, Pathology, Pharmacology to include; Mathematics, Statistics, Probability, Data analysis and Tools!
Fundamental shift based on better collection, access, and use of data
New business models are emerging, which is disrupting the traditional skills and tools needed to win in insurance
Dynamic Risk Management i.e. Pay as you Drive (PAYD) and Pay How you Drive (PHYD) changes from Actuarial insurance practice to Dynamic Risk Management model
Opportunities in development sophisticated risk models that are focused on individuals, extremely accurate, and capable of being updated in real-time
Transform traditional segment-based retailing into a more personal approach - i.e. Thousands of individual customers, instead of thousands of customers
Transformation in retail is more than just using data to better target clients, it’s about using data to transform the role of a retailer and truly serve a customer of one!
The Shift
1995 The launch of Amazon.com and the collapse of Circuit City, Borders, CompUSA, Blockbusters, Tower Records, and countless others!
A number of factors contributed to the decline in traditional retails:
Financial Model
Price Transparency
Social Engagement
New distribution Models
Price of Innovation
Experience
Increase intimacy between the firm and customer
Improving and maximizing customer satisfaction, by processing data about the individual customer in real-time
Data about the locations and preferences of individuals will allow organizations to offer services and solutions to improve their personal experiences and identify challenges ahead of time
Data transforming Customer service:
Data is key ingredient in each of aspects of the successful customer service. The lack of data or lack of use of data is preventing the personalization of customer service, which is the reason that it is not meeting expectations.
Exploration of GE Power and turbine business
Potentials of drones
Tesla’s Vehicle Management System
The network of data will revolutionize our world
Predictive Maintenance
Machine Data;
Database logs
Application logs
Application server logs
Call detail records
Sensor data
GPS data
IP Router data
Clickstream data
Transactional data
Graphics (Police Car, City (Smart Cities) , Government)
Cities and Crime prevention
Closing the loop between people and government using data has considerable potential
Whereas election, referendum, and opinion surveys cost substantial amounts of money, social media, offers a means of monitoring public opinion, assessing perceptions, and testing and fine-tuning public policy.
Use of public-private partnership for delivering socio-economic benefits
Egypt, 2011 example Social Media* find photo of this
8 Millennium Development Goals monitored with data driven indicators
Impact bonds (Social Impact, and Development Bonds)
Power Crisis in North India occurred due to over withdrawal of power by some states. Better Smart Grid/Metering systems, balancing loads would help prevent these crises in the future, by preventing overutilization.
Power failure cascaded through the grid, leaving more than 300 million people without electricity! The next day power failure, left 620 million without electricity!
Understanding Data Assets - Locate, catalog, and assess the potential of, all relevant data inside and outside the organization
Explore the Data - Applying a rigorous approach of searching for statistical significance
Design for Future - Use the implications of the of data exploration to either make better decisions, design a new business model, or redesign current business processes
Design a Data-driven Business Model - If appropriate, design a business model to take advantage of the new data discovery
Transform Business Processes for the Data era – If appropriate, redesign existing business processes to capitalize on the new Insights from steps 1 and 2
Design for Governance and Security – Understand the impact of leveraging new insights and data assets, comprehending the implications of privacy and data usage
Share Metrics and Incentives – Develop a system to ensure KPIs are measured
A Method for recognizing Patterns in Data:
Data Acquisition and sensing
Pre-processing
Feature Extraction
Classification
Post-processing
Framework for Turning Data Assets into valuable information insights and higher business performance
Information age organizations are built on a new set of operating assumptions.
Cross-functions
Links to customers and suppliers
Customer segmentation
Global scale
INNOVATION!
Knowledge workers
Alignment of Business Strategy to Operational Innovation
Bridge data strategy, design, implementation and operations
Digital transformation advisory on organization (people), processes and technology
Adoption of Cloud, Analytics, Mobile, Social (C.A.M.S.) to maximize impact
Adoption of modern platform to smartly integrate
Adoption of data science capabilities for predictive intelligence and insights
Use proven approaches (Adaptive Analytics), innovative software tools, open source, proven IPs, outcome based services for speed and specific outcomes
Continuous knowledge transfer - Instructor led, On-Demand, and others
Adoption of Self-Service Modern BI, Data Preparation, Advanced Analytics (ML & AI)