technology trends talk: thinking different - it’s not the technology

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Thinking Different It’s not the technology

Dr Leong Mun Kew munkew@nus.edu.sg

Technology Trends Talk, 16 Aug 2014

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TODAY

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TOMORROW

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There’s always new technology getting better all the time

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What’s important are the game-changers

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What makes a technology a

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The “10X” Technology • Your WAN is as fast

as your LAN

• Cheaper to replace than to repair

• So easy, grandma can do it

• Professional quality

at home

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MOSAIC Technologies

• Mobile • Open • Social • Analytics • Internet of Things (IoT) • Cloud

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• M • O • S • A • I • C

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87% of 5 million = 4.35 million smart phones

15% of 1,237 million = 186 million smart phones

87% of 30 million = 24

million smart phones

60% of 313 million = 187 million smart

phones

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E-commerce is a $6.5 Billion business

45% on mobile

25% in rural areas

40% margin!?

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Released products/services that were not “perfect”

Customers co-created

the final product

(for free!) Redefined

Scale – from a few paid

employees to many free partners

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Systems that can make repeatable,

consistent and accurate medical diagnosis without

getting tired, cranky or overworked

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Forensic Video “we have

reviewed the videos and it wasn’t our

fault”…

Predictive Analytics Wouldn’t it be better if

it had been, “video analytics identified him as being at risk,

and we took appropriate action”

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Thirdshelf: iBeacon Store of the Future?

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At the Dx3 digital business expo

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Non-Retail applications will increase

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