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Social or Tech Trend
High level explanation in 3 sentences maximum
Why is this interesting for your business?
Potential threat or opportunity?

…….. explanation/summary of what they do
…… initial ideas of how this applies to you
Brief description of an industry specific
application and link to reference case.
Inspirational case
Social
or
Tech

Cases
4 examples

Virtual Reality
A computer-generated environment that, to the person
experiencing it, closely resembles reality
Why is this interesting for your business?
It could completely reshape the banking experience
Potential threat or opportunity?
Threat: Physical banks could close down
Opportunity: Serve more customers at the same time
Tech

Tech
BNP Paribas aims to turn uninspiring numbers
and dry concepts into a more rich and
meaningful experience. This way it’ll be easier
for the customer to grasp financial concepts.
A fist app allows retail banking users to access
their account activity and transaction records in
a VR environment
A second app allows you to take a guided tour of
the steps involved with buying a home. BNP also
created “the POD,” a VR “experience capsule”
which aims to help real estate investors visualize
their projects.
Tech
Industry application: Banking
BNP Paribas - 9th biggest bank of the world
VR apps for the banking world
Inspiration: BNP Paribas

Decentralised sharing and distribution
Public ledger that records transactions, radically speeds up
transactions and cuts costs by facilitating a trusted transfer of
value without the involvement of traditional intermediaries.
Why is this interesting for your business?
It could be instrumental to manage the sector’s growing complexity,
data security, and ownership
Potential threat or opportunity?
Social

Tech Inspiration: Electron
ELECTRON - Distributed ledger
blockchain systems for the energy sector
UK startup Electron aims to advance the shared
infrastructure of energy markets by using
decentralized technology.
The company has built two products on the
Ethereum blockchain: The Flexibility Trading
Platform encourages sites to decrease energy
use and sell excess energy.
Their second solution, Meter Registration
Platform, makes it about 20 times faster for
consumers to switch energy suppliers than
current rates.
Social
Industry application: Energy

Artificial Intelligence
An area of computer science that emphasizes the creation of
intelligent machines that work and react like humans.
Why is this interesting for your business?
Faster and more accurate medicare could be provided through
predictive models based on machine learning.
Potential threat or opportunity?
Opportunity: lower production costs
Threat: Robots taking jobs from workers
Tech

Tech
Teams that respond to medical emergencies,
rapid response teams, need to manually review
charts to spot the potential crisis. Intel aims to
automate that analysis and help the hospital
deliver more proactive, efficient interventions.
Rapid Response Team Model is a predictive
model intended to detect patient health decline
and identify patients at risk for requiring a rapid
response team intervention within a defined
window of time
Hospitals could use this model to proactively
position rapid response team members and
equipment to decrease the response time.
Tech
Industry application: Healthcare
Intel - Technology Giant
Machine learning based models
Inspiration: Intel

Automated Commerce
The automation of the full customer journey, from buying the
product to delivery at the customers home.
Why is this interesting for your business?
Brings down costs severely, increases productivity & efficiency
Potential threat or opportunity?
Threat: Safety issues
Social

Tech Inspiration: Amazon
Amazon - Ecommerce giant
Work hard, have fun, make history
Amazon is an american electronic commerce and
cloud computing company. The tech giant is the
largest Internet retailer in the world
Amazon Prime Air: Delivery system from
Amazon designed to get packages to customers
in 30 minutes or less using unmanned aerial
vehicles, also called drones
Amazon Dash Buttons: A Wi-Fi-connected
device that reorders your favourite product with
the press of a button. Each Dash Button is paired
with a product of your choice, which is selected
during the setup process.
Social
Industry application: E-commerce