Transcript SIS GS - Fred Balboni (10-11-10)

How Smarter technologies are
helping Europe progress
XXI CEO Summit
Hungary
Harry van Dorenmalen, Chairman, IBM Europe
How Smarter technologies are
helping Europe progress
XXI CEO Summit
Hungary
Harry van Dorenmalen, Chairman, IBM Europe
Are you
ready?!
We live in an instrumented, interconnected, intelligent world
1 billion + transistors
for each person on the
planet
30 billion RFID tags
embedded into our world
and into our products
2 billion people
are on the internet
500,000,000 GB
global internet traffic
volume expected by 2013
15 petabytes
of new information being
generated every day
1 trillion
devices attached to “Internet of things”
Tackling problems that are relevant
…in all aspects of the economy
Health Care
Public Transport
Government
Law Enforcement
Environment
Telecom
Manufacturing
Traffic Control
Fraud Prevention
Trends 1: Leading the evolution of the thinking machine
The New IT Frontier
Learning
Systems
Watson
(2010)
Deep Blue
(1997)
ENIAC
(Circa 1945)
Abacus
(Circa
3500 BC)
Astronomical
Computer
(87 BC)
Counting Machine
Napier’s Rods (Circa 1820)
(Circa 1600)
Computer Intelligence
Over Time
Cognitive computing aims to create computer systems that can deal with ambiguity and learn over time
Trends 2: Intelligence, from data, is changing the game
… organizations are operating with blind spots
Lack of Insight
1 in 3 managers frequently make critical decisions
without the information they need
VOLUME of Digital Data
Inefficient Access
1 in 2 don’t have access to the information across
their organization needed to do their jobs
VARIETY of Information
Inability to Predict
3 in 4 business leaders say more predictive
information would drive better decisions
VELOCITY of Decision Making
Source: IBM Institute for Business Value
Trends 3: Cities are getting smarter
By 2050, city dwellers are expected to make up 70% of Earth’s total
population or
6.4 billion people!
Government Services
Public Safety
Interconnected
Education
Energy
Instrumented
Telecommunications
Transportation
Intelligent
Healthcare
Standouts capitalize on complexity in three ways
• Creativity is #1 leadership quality
• Drive change in the organization to
stay ahead of market and use a
wide range of communication
styles and tools
• Break with status quo of industry,
enterprise and revenue models
• Simplify operations and products to
better manage complexity
• Use iterative strategies, make quick
decisions and execute with speed
• Integrate globally, increase cost
variability and exploit partnering to
increase agility
• “Getting closer to customers” is the
single most important theme
• Better understand customer needs
through collaboration and info sharing
• Exploit the information explosion to
deliver unprecedented customer
service
Are
you ready?!
• If nothing changes, nothing changes:
What did you do different?
• Do you –personally- have the global
network and reach to make change
happen?
• Did your skillset changed / improved
in the past year?
• Are you working on solutions for
which we did not define the problem
yet?
• Did you notice that the talent in your
organization is changing?
11
“How will people remember you?”
Let’s Build a Smarter Planet
Are you ready?!
Agenda
1
What’s going on in the world
2
Where technology is heading
3
How to make it work for you
What problems are we trying to solve?
$93 billion
3.7 billion
25 billion
Total sales missed each
year because retailers don’t
stock the right products to
meet customer demand.
Lost hours and 2.3b gallons
of gas is the annual impact of
congested roadways in
the U.S. alone.
Global trading systems are under
extreme stress, handling billions of
market data messages each day.
170 billion
Kilowatt hours wasted yearly by
consumers due to insufficient
power usage information.
100 million
People worldwide are pushed
below the poverty line by personal
healthcare expenditures.
A Smarter Europe – a brief selection
Smart traffic
systems –
London,
Amsterdam
Smart oil field
technologies
– Statoil,
Norway
Smart food
systems –
Matiq,
Norway
Smart
healthcare –
BG Trauma
Hospital,
Hamburg
Smart retail –
Metro,
Germany
Smart water
management,
Malta
Smart travel
- Finnair
Smart
weather Rotterdam
Smart
regions –
Venice
Smart cities
- Berlin
Are you ready?!
Watson – towards ‘thinking’ technology
 Answers questions in
natural language
 Made possible by:
 Advances in natural
language computing
 Enormous
computational power
 World’s info digitized
 Begins new era in
making sense of
massive amounts of
data through
advanced analytics
Let’s Build a Smarter Planet