2. Royal Mail. Service Naming.Simon Nash, Hugo & Cat - Things, and the internet.
A keen futurist with a
passion for emerging
technologies and
digital customer
experience.
snash@hugoandcat.com
Twitter: @simonnash
uk.linkedin.com/in/simonnash
Introduction
3. I use a connected thing every day
Withings Scales, my weight, health
tracking, and todays weather.
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5. Rapid growth in connected home
products and services
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Several clients already active
E.ON Smart Hub Sony LifeSpace UX
7. Analysts
predict a
massive
market for
‘connected
things’ in
2016
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Category 2014 2015 2016 2020
Consumer 2,277 3,023 4,024 13,509
Business:
Cross-Industry
632 815 1,092 4,408
Business:
Vertical-Specific
898 1,065 1,276 2,880
Grand Total 3,807 4,902 6,392 20,797
Table 1: Internet of Things Units Installed
Base by Category (Millions of Units)
Source: Gartner (November 2015)
8. Simon Nash, Hugo & Cat - Things, and the internet.
How does it make us feel? It makes us feel
clever. For me, that’s the best word. It’s not
nerdy, it’s not technical. It makes you feel, you
know, ‘God, that was clever!’ [...]
It’s a sense of being empowered, that sort of
slightly self-satisfied sense, that, ‘Well, that
was efficient.’
Andrew Brem – Chief Digital Officer, AVIVA
9. Reduce friction of
(getting something)
Control & Monitor
(environment & activity)
Automation
Personalisation
IoT 1.0
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Not just about consumer products
The sexy thing from my
perspective is the data science
side of it.
I love the idea of a Minority
Report style engineer turning up
just long enough to say Hello
before your boiler fails.
Jim Anning, data & analytics, British Gas
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Huge potential for organisations
Channel shift isn’t
necessarily about moving
enquiries from one platform
to another. With IoT we can
change the narrative,
developing the capability to
intervene and respond
automatically.
12. I’m not
alone.
Still more potential for industry,
where IoT is building on the
foundations of SCADA
technologies that have been
established since the 1970s.
(Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition)
13. A smart New York lawyer once said
Everything is a thing, and we are just
connecting the internet to everything.
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14. IoT is a convergence of existing
technologies & trends...
● DIY sensors & connectivity
● Wi-fi and mesh networks
● Wearable technologies
● Virtual / augmented reality
● Artificial intelligence
● Speech and gesture recognition
● Conversational interfaces
● Data science and analytics
● Personalisation & automation
● Remote monitoring
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15. And it could be described as evolution
Still fundamentally a
distribution / delivery
innovator, taking
rapid advantage of
new technologies.
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16. It’s very hard to imagine how things will play out, just as it was in the early
days of the Internet. Who might have predicted the rise of Uber and Airbnb…
What will the next big disruptive business look like?
But we’ve barely scratched the surface
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19. To fully appreciate the potential of IoT we
need to avoid getting stuck on the idea
that an individual interacts with an object.
With IoT, all the world’s a stage. Imagine
scenarios where multiple actors, and
multiple objects are in play. Where the
environment, and everything within it, are
potential participants and contributors.
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20. In these new scenarios, brands and
technology will not be centre stage
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Technology and advertising play
an increasingly intrusive role in
our daily lives. The big promise
of the internet of things is that it
will enable a more human
experience. Complex
technologies interacting behind
the scenes to simplify and
declutter our lives.
22. Authentication & trust are the key
Authentication
technology and
the need to
manage trust
efficiently.
Increasing
expectations of
simplicity and
automation.
Less desire for
human
intervention.
Connected
things working
behind the
scenes using
distributed
networks.
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23. ‘Open’ approaches should be a priority
Common schemas could allow
proprietary technologies to talk
to each other without
convergence on a central O/S or
protocol. By classifying common
actions and objects, proprietary
software should be able to
communicate at a basic level.
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24. ‘Open’ approaches should be a priority
Blockchain could well solve the
authentication riddle and provide
a means of establishing trust in
distributed networks. So called
self-executing smart contracts will
enable processes and
transactions to take place
automatically in the background.
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26. The progression of economic value
“With transformations,
the customer is the
product! The
individual buyer of the
transformation
essentially says,
‘Change me’.”
Pine & Gilmore ‘The
Experience Economy’
HBR 1999
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27. Welcome to the “outcome economy” —
where companies create value not just by
selling products and services, but by
delivering solutions that directly produce
quantifiable results.”
Paul Daugherty, WSJ.com
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28. Time for a
shift in
mindset
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29. Closer to customers than ever
Predicting needs and customising
services delivers to new meaning to
personalisation. Industries like
Insurance will be able to redefine
their products and the ways in
which they are bought and
consumed. Expect highly
contextual personalisation.
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30. Closer to customers than ever
Privileged position in personal
spaces combined with
automated billing means fewer
barriers to consumption of a
product or service. Amazon are
embedding their Dash instant
replenishment concept into
products that rely on
consumables.
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31. Closer to customers than ever
However consumers will expect
that this delivers better value,
savings passed to customer, and
billing tied to more closer to
consumption. This will increase
competitive pressure, force the
creation of more granular
services, and drive down profit
margins.
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Drivers in the US can already install simple device to track their
driving and link their driving performance to insurance savings.
32. Connected products as services
Connected products can be
updated automatically, and
can therefore carry a
continuous new stream of
services into the home.
Capabilities can be baked
into a product to support
future services & integrations.
The modern hardware business is a trojan horse for software.
Ben Epstein
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33. Connected products as services
Fewer opportunities for product sales
and upgrade fees, consumers will
expect firmware to automatically
update and be free to install.
Business models will need to
anticipate a huge long tail cost for
maintaining the product/service in
perpetuity.
Nest have just bricked recent home hub purchase Revolv -
customers had invested £200 for ‘lifetime service’.
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34. Rich sources of data and opportunity
The data captured by trillions of new
connected devices takes us beyond
the realm of big data and into a realm
of massive data. Convergence of
multiple sources of data will unlock
enormous potential for organisations
to exploit data for commercial gain.
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35. Rich sources of data and opportunity
Consumers are already
concerned by invasions of
privacy and increasingly sensitive
to brands abusing their data. We
can expect significant pushback
from customers and regulators.
And there is a growing call for
consumers to profit from their
own data.
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36. Connected products will open
up opportunities for
manufacturers and content
owners to partner in delivering
personalised content. This will
enhance relationships and
potentially create new revenue
streams. Many more ‘network
effects’ likely to emerge.
Opportunities for partnership
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37. Opportunities for partnership
In 2014 we saw Vine users and
the platform itself under fire from
the premier league for supposed
rights abuses i.e. live clips of
goals being shared. Will these
sorts of dispute reach into our
connected homes?
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38. Complimentary revenue streams
Product manufacturers can create
new revenue streams and extend
relationships beyond the purchase.
All Traffic Solutions transitioned
from selling automated signage to
measuring real-time traffic data
and offering web based services to
traffic managers.
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39. Complimentary revenue streams
Fridges capable of ordering
groceries are finally here. But as
traditional products take new roles,
they may suffer unintended
consequences. Will the Internet
Fridge meet the same fate as the
Set Top Box? Given away by online
grocers in order to tie customers
into long-term ordering contracts?
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40. Traditional businesses are ill-equipped to
handle these emerging opportunities.
Agility and adaptability will be critical for
organisations embracing IoT. Partnerships
and new commercial propositions will
leverage new skills and competences.
Infrastructure, technology, and data, will
need to be fundamentally re-designed.
41. Conclusions Summing up...
A challenge for today not tomorrow
We need to work behind the scenes to deliver value
Business model reinvention the key to success
Network effects will unlock new opportunities
Digital Transformation is a prerequisite
Consider risks as well as rewards
Editor's Notes
Presence – who is here, what rights do they have? (we get super powers!)
mbient signals, AI & logic (combination of circumstances IFTT, connecting the dots – this plus this plus this)
iii) Voice, gesture, AI and conversational UI – FB messenger (Concierge services, film reference – Her)
Huge public mistrust, a risk for first movers Vast range of new capabilities neededCostly transformation a requirementBrand interactions hidden in the backgroundUnfair competition