Post on 15-Jul-2015
Index+ Futures
Michael SelwaySystem Simulation
http://www.ssl.co.uk/<mas@ssl.co.uk>
Index+ User GroupThe British Museum19th November, 2012
Futures
◾ Study of what is to come
◾ Tentative horizon scanning
◾ Futures workshops
◾ Identify signals and trends
◾ Draw out possible futures and impacts
◾ Feed into strategic planning
◾ Persue specific innovations
Futures work at System Simulation
◾ Index+ for business intelligence and horizon scanning
◾ Early project with SRI International
◾ Created two futures consultancies
– Future Realities– Business Futures Network
◾ Clients include Mitsubishi, Shell
Futures and the IUG
◾ Futures session focused on IUG members' environments
◾ Methodology for discovering forthcoming challenges
◾ Understanding and evaluating priorities
◾ Topic-based workshops
Video
◾ Interaction choice of the next generation
◾ Replacement for images
◾ Time indexing
◾ Vimeo/YouTube channel
◾ More accessible players
◾ More codecs, more transcoding
Cloud
◾ Software-as-a-Service (Saas)
◾ Supports remote/distributed working
◾ Less IT needed
◾ Pay-as-you-go
◾ Different disaster recovery model
◾ Do you know where your data is?
Fuzzy searching
◾ Stemming, Soundex
◾ Did you mean?
◾ Thesaurus Use-For (alternate terms)
◾ Faceted search
◾ Word breaks
◾ Search relaxation
Fuzzy searching
◾ Stemming, Soundex
◾ Did you mean?
◾ Thesaurus Use-For (alternate terms)
◾ Faceted search
◾ Word breaks
◾ Search relaxation
◾ Barak # Obama (proximity)◾ Barak AND Obama◾ Barak OR Obama
Mobile
◾ Internal access/public access
◾ Keyboardless working
◾ Screen size
◾ Apps vs. web sites
◾ BYOD
Sharing and community
◾ Open data
◾ Service sharing with neighbours
◾ User generated content
◾ Tagging
◾ Volunteer users