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Building better places to live, work and travel:

from steam engines to Big Data and the Internet of Things

Dr Rick Robinson FBCS CITP FRSA AoU, IT Director, Smart Data and Technology

[email protected] http://theurbantechnologist.com @dr_rick

Smart Data & Technology

Smart Data & Technology2050: 3 billion more citizens

The United Nations World Urbanisation Prospects: http://esa.un.org/unpd/wup/

Smart Data & TechnologyOur best cities fail us (and even kill us)

http://life.mappinglondon.co.uk/


Traditional hotel chain

• Founded in 1919

• Over 680,000 rooms in 91 countries (2015)

• Over 310,000 employees and franchise employees(2015)

• Market capitalisation $29.6B (2015)

1997 2003 2006 2006 2007

Online peer-to-peer market for temporaryaccommodation

• Founded in 2008

• Over 800,000 rooms in 192 countries (2015)

• 600 employees (2013)

• Estimated value $13B (2014)

Disruptive business models

Smart Data & TechnologyIn search of Matthew Boulton …

James Watt, inventor of the world’s most efficient steam enginehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watt

Matthew Boulton who used it to revolutionise manufacturing andcommerce

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Boulton

Smart Data & TechnologyService science and platform businesses

http://value-basedservicesystem.blogspot.co.uk/

https://enterprisersproject.com/sites/default/files/New%20Patterns%20of%20Innovation.pdf

http://www.slideshare.net/InfoEcon/mva-mit-strategy-and-

competition-dist

http://www.thecurveonline.com/

Smart Data & TechnologySmarter cities and regions?

Smart Data & TechnologyCities and technology in the 20th Century

“The Second Machine Age”, by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, summarised inhttps://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2014-06-04/new-world-order

Throughout the 20th Century UK cities that did not adapttheir economies to new technology lost jobs, employers,residents and investment.

“Cities Outook 1901”, Centre for Cities:http://www.centreforcities.org/publication/cities-outlook-1901/

Since the 1980s as computers spread into homes andbusinesses, growth in GDP has not created growth in UShousehold wealth. New wealth is primarily being capturedby the owners of “platform businesses” such as Amazon,

Apple, Uber and Airbnb.


22%Services to energyand water utilities

39%Roads andrailways

Environment11%

FacilityManagement

18%

Consulting10%


Public sector outcomes-based procurements:Smarter roads


Regulated industries:Smarter sewers

http://assessingtheunderworld.org/


Responsible business practise:Smarter safety


A future opportunity?The circular economy

http://senseable.mit.edu/trashtrack/

Smart Data & TechnologyClosing thoughts

• New business models are just as important as new technologies

• If you’re not a natural entrepreneur, look to the academic literature: servicescience and platform business models

• It’s not rocket science: do we create enough value to pay for the technology bygetting the right thing to the right place at the right time?

• D3: “dirty, dull or dangerous”

• Population growth and climate change will transform the economics of resources

• Government aspirations will (eventually) lead to changes in industry regulationand public sector procurement

• New opportunities are appearing in the supply chains of traditional businesses

• There’s never been a better time to be a tech startup – but you need to think likeMatthew Boulton, as well as thinking like James Watt


Thankyou

Dr Rick Robinson FBCS CITP FRSA AoU, IT Director, Smart Data and Technology

[email protected] http://theurbantechnologist.com @dr_rick