ABCtech #54 12JAN16 Birth of the Big Brain

ABCtech #54 12JAN16 Birth of the Big Brain

“Choked with data, but starved for information”? For most, this sales pitch for analytics has fallen on deaf ears. The essence of the pitch was for organizations to start “thinking”, to use existing data for generating information and depoliticizing their decision making. How?

Step One – Ready, was to want to improve. Step Two – Aim, was to recognize that the organization had data it wasn’t using. And Step Three – Fire, was to engage analysts with open access to data for answering the really big questions.

It has taken a decade, but Retailing has evolved rapidly, with Amazon – the leading market maker. Facebook and Twitter are transforming inter-personal communications including dating, if only for the fun of it. Security continues to face challenges endemic to democracy. Both manufacturing and energy have been slow to adapt. And Governments continue to lag in reforming both policy development and healthcare. Also Research Universities h*ve been slow to integrate internally or form research networks with   community, industry to the benefit of the overall economy.

Clearly opportunity is a hard sell, hard to shake existing cultures and structures that sustain the status quo. Change comes slowly, unless mandated by shock.

ABCtech has been tracking and advocating for analytics and the evolution of analytics, big data and the cloud plus “the internet of everything” for almost a decade. That’s what we do, tracking emerging, potentially disruptive technologies; technologies that wait for no one, e.g.: fusion energy, genetic and cell therapies, automated transportation. So it shouldn’t be surprising for ABCtech to embrace the next big thing in infotech – “data singularity”. The integration of data sets from sensors deployed in “everything” and the emergence of algorithms for detecting meaningful patterns.

“Data singularity” will trigger the emergence of responsive “systems” outside of traditional borders. The implications for governance and  industry, new partnerships and research are huge. FOR MORE  Cisco’s pitch HERE

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