We live in the age of information, an era presenting enormous transformational opportunities for business, community and individuals alike. This session will highlight how organizations of all sizes and people from all walks of life can prioritize and pursue opportunities to perform better and to live life more richly. For more information on the Loras College 2014 Business Analytics Symposium, the Loras College MBA in Business Analytics or the Loras College Business Analytics Certificate visit www.loras.edu/mba or www.loras.edu/bigdata.

1. New Opportunities for a New Age
Tim Suther

3. Then

4. By…
Active learning
Reflective thinking
Ethical decision making
Responsible contribution
Post Loras…
“Top” CMO
Software company president
Digital & analytics innovator
Industry advisor

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Multiple simultaneous innovations
Pervasive & disruptive transitions
A highly abridged history of mankind

6. Source: McKinsey

7. Source: McKinsey

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the future is already here —
it's just not very evenly distributed.

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10. Change will be faster and more profound
Source: Forrester Research

11. …creating dislocation

12. …changing relationships
Source: Nick Grossman, Union Square Ventures

13. …enabling real business value
Sources: MIT, McKinsey, Acxiom, BMO, IDC, DMA

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…enabling better living
Personalized biofeedback and treatment
Control (and cure) disease
Enhanced safety
Find common causes…and love

15. …and new career opportunities
Source: McKinsey

16. …and we’re just getting started!!
Sensors
Mobility
Cloud
3D printing

17. “If you don’t like change, you’re going to
like irrelevance even less.”
General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
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20. Strategy First

22. Be purposeful
Serve customers. Make the world better.

23. Not everything that can be counted counts
and not everything that counts can be counted

24. Create an analytics roadmap

25. Is this lamp post used to illuminate or support?
Ask the same question about analysis

27. Maximize, protect & prioritize learning ability
Maximize
Intellectual humility
Redefine failure
Control your destiny
Protect
Math alone will be
automated & offshored
Art & Science
Prioritize
More important than…
Your IQ
Your title
Your experience

28. Being prepared – summing it up
Strategy
First
Be
Purposeful
Analytics
Roadmap
Learning
Ability

29. All good, but for someone else?

30. Unclear
Value
Too Expensive
Lack Resources IT disruption
Impossible?

31. Think big
Start small
Declining computing costs
Crowdsourcing
The cloud minimizes IT
impact
I’m possible

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When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew
up. I wrote down ‘happy’.
They told me I didn’t understand the assignment
I told them they didn’t understand life. John Lennon

34. Seizing opportunity…not as hard (or expensive) as most think
Opportunities abound…more profound than most think
Do yourself a favor…increase your learning ability
Do the world a favor…be purposeful

35. Q & A