challenges facing information and records management professionals
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The information profession has learnt to cope with change, but change is happening with ever-increasing velocity bringing new challenges and opportunities for both information professionals and information consumers. Big data, the cloud, the transition to mobile working, analytics, apps, open and linked data; these are just some of the topics covered in this presentation. Where is the information management industry heading, and do we have the resources and skills to cope with this ‘data and technology deluge’?TRANSCRIPT
Steve DaleSemantix (UK) Ltd19 October 2011
Information and Records Management: New Paradigms
for Old Problems?
Where are we going….and will we know when we’ve got
there?
“The future is already here...it’s just not very
evenly distributed.”
Source: William Ford Gibson
You are here
Big
Data...the next frontier
Some Data on Big Data
5 billion mobile phones in use in 2010
30 billion items of content shared on Facebook every month
40% projected growth of data per year vs. 5% growth in global IT spending
$600 billion potential annual consumer surplus from using personal location data globally
€250 billion potential value to Europe’s public sector administration - more than the GDP of Greece
140,000 - 190,000 data analysts and 1.5 million more data savvy managers needed to take advantage of
big data (in US).
£400 to buy a disk drive that can store all the world’s music
Source: McKinsey Global Institute, May 2011
Big Data - what is it and where does is come
from?
• Datasets so large they are difficult to work with with using standard database management tools
• Larger and larger datasets allow analysts to spot business trends and opportunities.
• Growing exponentially - sources include mobile devices, cameras, RFID, medical, music, wireless sensor networks, real-time/geospatial tracking, location-based services ebooks etc.
• More and more data being ‘stored’ in the Cloud
From Data Scarcity To Data Abundance
Source: Guardian -http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Information Being Presented In New and Compelling Ways
Where are we going with technology?
Technology cycles tend to last 10
years.
Source: Morgan Stanley Internet Trends Report 4 Dec 2010
Mobile will be bigger than desktop Internet within 5
years.
There will be 7 billion mobile phones by 2012 – more than the global population
More computing power in your pocket or handbag than on your
desktop
One size doesn’t fit all
• Corporate PC and IT standards becoming increasingly irrelevant
• Users far more savvy on what tools they need to do the job
• Let the business define the risk….not the IT department
Growth In Location-based Services
It’s not the device, it’s the application!
Software applications becoming increasingly commoditised. Users
happy to use and discard when no longer relevant
Source: Morgan Stanley Internet Trends Report 4 Dec 2010
Social networking overtakes email
In just over two short years, Facebook has quintupled in size to a network that touches more than 500
million users. More than 4 billion people around the world now use cell phones, and for 450 million of
those people the Web is a fully mobile experience.
Facebook represents 28% of the
current Internet
populationSource: Pingdom
• We’re going to continue to generate data faster than it can be consumed or understood. Most of it will not be held inside the enterprise.
• Information visualisation techniques will help us extract meaning from the increasing volume of data.
• What happens in Vegas stays on Facebook/Twitter/Google – no point worrying about retention schedules for social networks.
• Mobile platforms and mobile working will define the future of the workplace. Design for mobile, consider the PC – not the other way around.
• Apps will commoditise the software market and deliver cheaper, simpler, more efficient and more relevant services to users
So, what does all this mean?
Where are we going….and will we know when we’ve got
there?
Never make predictions, especially about the future.
Casey Stengel, baseball player and manager, 1891 - 1975
Thank you!
Email: [email protected]: http://about.me/stephendale
References
Morgan Stanley Internet Trends: http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/pdfs/Internet_Trends_041210.pdf
Internet World Stats: http://www.internetworldstats.com
UK Public Spending: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/may/17/uk-public-spending-departments-money-cuts#zoomed-picture
McKinsey, Big Data: The Next Frontier For Innovation.... http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/publications/big_data/pdfs/MGI_big_data_full_report.pdf
Emerging Transition to Social Business Models - Dion Hincliffe, Dachis Group: http://www.dachisgroup.com/author/dion-hinchcliffe/
Title image sourced from Milton Masoapatali
Other photos and images sourced from Google images and iStock Photos.