CEO of the Lightstone Group, Anthony Miller focuses on data analytics, decision support and technology enablement. Anthony will be focussing on this exciting time, historically, and the possibilities available. Slides from talks presented at Mammoth BI in Cape Town on 17 November 2014. Visit www.mammothbi.co.za for details on the event. Follow @MammothBI on twitter.

1. Anthony Miller
The Second Half of the Chessboard
DEBUNKING THE MYTHS
Speaker 11 of 17
Followed by
Jeff Fletcher
@antmiller1

2. The
Second
Half
of
the
Chessboard
Anthony
Miller
–
CEO,
Lightstone
Specialised
Data
•
Analy<cs
•
Technology

3. Time
To
Wake
Up!

4. 1st
Industrial
Revolu?on
1760s
–
1840s
• Transi<on
from
hand
to
machine
produc?on
• Big
shiD
from
wood
to
coal
• Introduc<on
of
steam
power
• New
iron
and
tex?le
manufacturing
processes
• First
trans-­‐Atlan?c
steamship
service

5. 2nd
Industrial
Revolu?on
1840s
–
WW1
• Large-­‐scale
iron
and
steel
produc?on
• Prolifera<on
of
railroad,
telegraph
and
(later)
telephone
networks
• Widespread
use
of
machinery
in
manufacturing
• Inven<on
of
the
lightbulb
• First
successful
aeroplane
flight

6. Informa?on
Revolu?on
Analog
Digital

7. 1920s
–
1950s
Analog
Revolu?on
• Television
goes
main-­‐stream
• Fully
automated
telephone
switchboards
• Con?nuous
produc?on
lines
• Self-­‐controlled
machine
tools
displace
human
labour
• Computerised
control
using
punch
cards
• Affordable
motor
cars
1920s
–
1950s

8. Digital
Revolu?on
• Home
PCs
and
video
games
(1970s)
• Prolifera?on
of
PCs,
ATMs,
industrial
robots,
electronic
music
(1980s)
• Digital
mobile
phones,
digital
cameras,
the
Internet,
extensive
factory
automa?on
(1990s)
• Mobile
phones
explode,
SAAS,
social
media,
smartphones,
ubiquitous
Internet
(2000s)

9. The
Tipping
Point

10. The
Upward
Spiral
1 Digital
technology
has
improved
exponen<ally
since
incep<on
–
and
shows
no
sign
of
slacking
2 Data
is
being
generated
at
a
mind-­‐
blowing,
ever-­‐quickening
pace
–
and
we
are
just
star<ng
to
scratch
the
surface
of
its
economic
poten<al
3 Ideas
and
innova?ons
tend
to
build
off
other
ideas
and
innova<ons
–
and
now
Source:
The
Second
Machine
Age
by
Erik
Brynjolfsson
and
Andrew
McAfee;
other

11. The
Power
of
Doubling
Source:
The
Second
Machine
Age
by
Erik
Brynjolfsson
and
Andrew
McAfee;
other

12. BeXer,
faster,
cheaper

13. Device
prolifera?on

14. “Big
Data
is
like
teenage
sex:
everyone
talks
about
it,
nobody
really
knows
how
to
do
it,
everyone
thinks
everyone
else
is
doing
it,
so
everyone
claims
they
are
doing
it…”
Big
Data

15. It’s
all
about
people

16. Developing
world
too
Source:
Data
from
ITU
and
World
Bank

17. Internet
of
everything
Source:
Cisco

18. Metcalfe’s
law

19. Compounding
ideas

20. Lots
More
Tapping
In
Source:
Interna<onal
Telecommunica<ons
Union
Internet
users
per
100
inhabitants

21. And
Set
to
Explode
Source:
Kleiner
Perkins
Caulfield
and
Byers:
Internet
Trends
2014

22. So
what?

23. Imagine
7
of
these...
…
by
the
next
World
Cup

24. And
Now?

25. The
Fat
Cats?
Andrew
Carnegie
John
D.
Rockefeller
Cornelius
Vanderbilt
King
Edward
VII
Mark
Zuckerberg
Carlos
Slim
Steve
Jobs
Harry
Oppenheimer
Cecil
John
Rhodes
Bill
Gates
Warren
Buffek

26. Porters
5
Forces?

27. War
for
Talent?
The
thing
about
smart
people
is
they
seem
like
crazy
people
to
dumb
people

28. Breadcrumbs?

29. Smart
Devices?

30. Data
science?
• “I
keep
saying
that
the
sexy
job
in
the
next
10
years
will
be
sta<s<cians,
and
I’m
not
kidding.”
–
Hal
Varian,
Google
(2009)
• “Informa<on
is
the
oil
of
the
21st
century,
and
analy<cs
is
the
combus<on
engine.”
–
Peter
Sondergaard,
Gartner
Research

31. Bringing
In
The
Crowd?

32. 1 The
world
is
changing
at
a
pace
that
none
of
us
can
comprehend
2 What
was
previously
impossible
may
now
be
cri?cal
3 We
must
think
laterally
and
quickly
to
keep
up
4 Organisa?on
design
and
people
strategy
will
be
cri?cal
success
factors
In
summary

33. Specialised
Data
•
Analy<cs
•
Technology