100 day plan - Technology Vision Australian Perspective

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Digital Business Era:
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Internet
of Me
Outcome
Economy
Platform
(R)evolution
Intelligent
Enterprise
Workforce
Reimagined
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5 Trends

1
The Internet of Me:
Our world, personalized.

As everyday objects and experiences become digitized, new frontiers of personalization
centered on the individual open up. Welcome to the Internet of Me.
Everyday gadgets and machines are increasingly interconnected and consumers are
demanding more “smart” tech.
In a world where every car, every home, and every object is a new set of conversations
with customers, enterprises must make sure they get that experience right, before
someone else does.
The companies that succeed in this new Internet of Me will become the next generation
of household names.
78% of Australian organisations hold personalized experiences among their top
three priorities, while 39% report it’s their top priority, on par with the global trend.
Accenture Technology Vision 2015 research.
The Internet of Me:
Our world, personalized.
#techvision2015
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Trend 1: The Internet of Me
Getting Started: 100- and 365- day plans
In 100 days…
•Start using your customer data to discover what connected devices they currently use/intend to
purchase and what their goals are with the new technology. Identify more granular segments
within your user base to accommodate future personalization strategies.
•Review and begin to update your consumer engagement processes and governance strategy.
Prepare to shift toward a world where every customer has a unique view of your product, and
your product is increasingly influenced by ecosystem partners.
•Evaluate competitors for their use of mass personalization strategies. Take note of pinnacle
personalization experiences and how big data analytics are used to deliver them. Use this
opportunity to learn what companies in related industries are doing as well.
•Identify emerging edge technologies that can supplement your existing product or service by
providing either new channels to your customer or new data for contextual insights. Look to
early adopters for inspiration and best practices in leveraging these devices.
•Appoint a cross-functional team to champion and develop the end-user experience. Building a
strategy for the Internet of Me begins with bringing the individual’s voice to the table.
•Assess your current back-end architecture and data storage. In order to support a
personalization strategy at scale, the company will require hardware that can support the
increased load and speed necessary for real-time action. Determine what investments the
company will have to make.
In 365 days…
•Commission a pilot that leverages new channels of access to the consumer. Incorporate your
user research to make experience and personalization priorities in this new product
or service.
•Determine where your company holds a competitive advantage, or existing role, within your
users’ Internet of Me. Some possibilities include: building devices/products, software, and apps;
providing data analytics and insights; or facilitating seamlessly integrated experiences.
•Develop an ecosystem strategy that will allow you to work with a portfolio of potential partners.
The resulting strategy should play to the strengths of each company, allowing them to
specialize in their roles and deliver a complete end-user experience.
•Proactively address security issues that could leave sensitive customer data exposed or
physical devices vulnerable to attack or failure. As new pilots and projects are developed,
connect with internal and external subject matter experts to identify threat profiles and areas
for improvement.
•Privacy policies must be completely overhauled and created to reflect a transparent, trust-
centric mindset. Carefully account for the new relationship your business will have with
consumers and their data and how they will interact in the real world.
•Create a trust task force that is integrated across all business units. Help leaders go beyond
compliance to make trust and privacy a seamless part of business development in an effort to
mitigate corporate risk and liability.
#TechVision2015

2
Outcome Economy:
Hardware producing hard results.

The Outcome Economy upends long-held notions of how superior products and services
are defined. The new leaders will be those that can consistently collaborate with others
to deliver excellence across a spectrum of capabilities that include hardware.
By bridging the last mile between the digital enterprise and the physical world, highly
connected hardware components help companies give customers what they really want:
not more products or services, but meaningful results.
Today, delivering customer outcomes offers distinct competitive advantage. In the next
few years, it will become a catalyst for transformation. Beyond that, it will be nothing less
than a survival strategy.
88% of respondents in Australia believe organisations will increasingly shift from selling
products or services to selling outcomes. Accenture Technology Vision 2015 research.
Outcome Economy:
Hardware producing hard results.
#techvision2015

Trend 2: Outcome Economy
Getting Started: 100- and 365- day plans
In 100 days…
•Catalog the outcomes your customers are trying to achieve and map those
outcomes to current product and service offerings.
•Take an inventory of hardware at the edge of your network; chart the proximity of
this hardware to the customer outcomes catalogued earlier. Use the intersection
of these two mappings to highlight opportunities to use hardware at the edge for
new feedback loops. Determine if any of these solutions are repeatable across
products and services.
•Evaluate existing product and service feedback loops by drawing process
diagrams for your top 10 offerings, taking careful note of how many steps away
from customer outcomes your furthest data points are located.
•Identify which Internet of Things (IoT) consortia might be ideal to accelerate the
hardware ambitions of your business and your ecosystem of partners; reach out
to some existing members to discuss the benefits of participating.
•Build a competitive threat matrix that is focused on nimble startups. Look at the
way they use intelligent technology at the edge to compete for your customers.
Use what you learn to either inform your acquisition strategy or propose new
initiatives that will provide best-in-class insight on how to help your customers
achieve their goals.
•Identify opportunities to add sensors or other hardware to existing products that
will enhance business insight on what customers are trying to achieve. Evaluate
options to transform product companies into product-service hybrid companies,
with important data-based information services.
•Launch a company-wide innovation challenge to solicit ideas from your workforce
that will highlight opportunities to migrate from products to services and services
to outcomes. Identify at least three new business models to pilot.
In 365 days…
•Model the impact of transitioning to outcome-based revenue streams.
Evaluate a roadmap and pilot the transition of at least one offering or suite of
offerings to outcome based.
•Evaluate your ability to deliver hardware solutions at the edge and acquire or
partner with organizations to fill capability gaps.
•Appoint an outcome-driven innovation champion to work with product
managers to uncover ways products can be refined to meet unmet customer
needs.
•Pilot an outcome-based offering with a close customer and create feedback
loops within its business processes that provide near-real-time insights on the
outcomes your product is delivering to their business.
•Look outside of your company for data sources that will enhance your
understanding of what your customers are trying to achieve.
•Create a multiyear roadmap for integrating more hardware and feedback
loops with existing products and services.
•Develop an ecosystem strategy that will allow you to work with a portfolio of
potential partners. Evaluate if there are opportunities for disruptions in your
industry by moving up the value chain with hardware-based outcomes.
#TechVision2015

3
Platform (R)evolution:
Defining ecosystems, redefining
industries.

Underpinned by a wave of digital technologies – including social, mobile, analytics, cloud,
and the Internet of Things (IoT) – the platform serves as a new blueprint for how
companies build, connect, and deliver applications that address specific industry
challenges.
Today’s new and evolving platforms are essentially comprised of well-defined
architecture, governance and services and underpinned by the latest digital “tools” –
social, mobile, cloud, IoT and others.
Industry platforms will fuel the acceleration of digital disruption during the next three to
five years, leaving less and less time for established companies to react to change.
68% of Australian respondents agree that industry players rather than technology
companies will lead industry platform development. Accenture Technology Vision 2015 research.
Platform (R)evolution:
Defining ecosystems, redefining industries.
#techvision2015

In 100 Days…
•Appoint a champion to build a platform strategy across your enterprise.
•Task business development and alliance organizations to catalogue the digital
platforms being offered by existing partners.
•Organise a governance body to be the gatekeepers of digital inputs and
outputs with external partners.
•Establish or reconfirm a top-down (Board and C-level), enterprise-wide
commitment to your digital business strategy and industry blueprint.
•Based on your digital business strategy, begin the design of your industry
platform with three core components: the business model, technical
architecture, and governance model.
•As a major foundational component of your platform, create a cross-functional
business and technical team to develop your API strategy and management
approach.
•Identify potential digital partners and ecosystem scenarios in three categories:
existing business partners becoming digital partners, new digital partners within
your industry, and new digital partners outside your industry.
•Based on your digital business strategy and potential partner scenarios,
consider if you will initially join, partner, or create your own platform ecosystem.
•If you likely will build a platform, start identifying technology partner options for
public and hybrid cloud services.
Trend 3: Platform (R)evolution
Getting Started: 100- and 365-day plans
In 365 Days…
•Execute a multiphase pilot program to launch your platform and API programs
internally and externally.
•Formalise technology partner and cloud services relationships to support your
platform environment.
•Extend internal platform and API developer programs into a formal external
developer program.
•Create and promote a digital sandbox for developers to design and test apps
built on the platform.
•Transition internal API programs into production, while launching external API
pilot programs for one of your least complex offerings.
•Measure and report progress of the platform and API programs using a range
of business, financial, and technical metrics.
•Evangelise the initial round of apps and digital partner solutions built on the
pilot platform.
•Embrace opportunities for industry disruptions by expanding partner strategies
to move up the value chain.
•Think big and broadly about the problems you can attack and the
opportunities you never thought possible.
#TechVision2015

4
Intelligent Enterprise:
Huge data, smarter systems—
better business.

For years, software’s expanding capabilities were geared primarily toward helping
employees make better and faster decisions.
Amid the influx of data—along with advances in processing power, analytics and cognitive
technology—software intelligence is helping automobiles, thermostats and other everyday
things recognize, “think” and respond accordingly.
To fully capture the power and potential of software intelligence, visionary companies will find
new ways to get smart software out of the lab and into as many practical scenarios as
possible. Only then will their software be able to spur innovation and raise the operating-
performance bar across the organization.
89% of Australian respondents believe that software intelligence will be critical to maintaining
relevance and streamlining IT. Accenture Technology Vision 2015 research.
Intelligent Enterprise:
Huge data, smarter systems—better business.
#techvision2015

In 100 Days…
•Identify the software intelligence currently in use by your company to provide a
capabilities and gap analysis. Understand the advantages that software
intelligence provides, from making decisions to self-evolution and discovering
opportunities for innovation.
•Take an inventory of labor-intensive business processes and identify
appropriate opportunities to invest in automation and machine-learning
capabilities that can help to improve operational capabilities and scale
analytics.
•Identify specific applications that require frequent and manual updates, data
extracts, and/or a high degree of personalization. If the application relies on
data, classify it as a top candidate for software intelligence, such as machine
learning for self-evolution.
•Map these examples/use cases against your current business processes and
corporate strategy to prioritize specific opportunities—to catch up or gain new
advantages.
•Cultivate your data science talent—develop a plan to build, buy, and/or partner
to support your machine-learning and advanced-analytics know-how.
Trend 4: Intelligent Enterprise
In 365 days…
•Review your top candidates for software intelligence as determined in the 100-
day plan. Implement an automation technology that addresses one of these
use cases. Quantify its business impact and use those cost savings to justify
the next project(s).
•Develop machine learning skills by implementing a machine-learning software
solution that utilizes a defined data set for a very specific use case and
benefits from advanced analytics, such as a personalization application.
•Pilot a machine-learning solution that discovers new data associations.
Review the outcomes with an eye toward identifying new opportunities for
growth and innovation, such as a new customer segment or creating a new
product.
•Review your machine-learning use cases with a questioning eye. Set up a
quality assurance process to support or refute the conclusions being drawn
and subsequent actions taken. Have your data scientists confirm that the
datasets are complete and accurate and that the algorithms are appropriate.
•Create a training program to ensure that your data scientists are educated on
the latest deep-learning and cognitive-computing technologies, specifically in
natural language processing and image recognition. Give them time to
research and develop potential solutions with these new technologies.
•Establish a top-down strategic commitment to software intelligence and data
science, including R&D investment, innovation programs, and production
development.
#TechVision2015

5
Collaboration at the intersection
of humans and machines.
Workforce Reimagined:

As the digital revolution gains momentum, humans and machines must do more together.
Successful businesses will embrace both as critical team members.
Advances in robotics enable machines to not only communicate with humans, but also work
side-by-side with them. It’s a division of labor that plays to strengths of both.
Smart devices and wearable technology can gather information on a person’s surroundings,
supplement physical tasks and detect hazardous situations – potentially saving lives.
Human and machine—each on their own—won’t be enough to drive businesses in the
coming decades. Tomorrow’s leading enterprises will be those that know how to meld the
two effectively.
More than 21% of Australian executives surveyed are using or intending to use intelligent
technologies including drones, robots and sensors. Accenture Technology Vision 2015 research.
Workforce Reimagined:
Collaboration at the intersection of humans and machines.
#techvision2015

In 100 Days…
•Appoint a cross-functional team to uncover opportunities for integrating
technology to augment your workforce’s operational efficiency and workplace
safety—include members from the human resources, business, and technology
areas.
•Identify what competitors and companies in other industries are doing in blended
workforces. Based on the benchmark results, prioritize the range of opportunities,
timelines, and risk-return criteria.
•Establish criteria to identify use cases for investment in further human-machine
collaboration. Based on your company’s criteria, find the segment with the most
practitioners in your company and identify which tasks rely more on precision,
scale, and consistency versus creativity and contextual decision-making.
•Take a close look at positions that remain open. Pilot filling these positions with
new methods of people and machine interaction.
•Ensure an understanding of where your workforce needs augmentation
technologies, and perform a gap analysis on the skills that will be required of
future employees.
•Evaluate if technology can be used to address some of the worker safety issues
in remote and challenging environments.
•Test scenarios where wearable computing technologies improve the seamless
integration of workers and business processes.
•Pilot the use of new training technology to deliver more options for a distributed
workforce—consider massive open online course (MOOC) certification programs,
virtualized training, and job swapping.
Trend 5: Workforce Reimagined
In 365 days…
•Pilot prioritized solutions by dividing and distributing tasks that play to your
workforce’s strengths: machines for precision, scale, and consistency and
humans for creativity, contextual decisions, and complex communication.
•Determine industry-relevant opportunities for leveraging technology to help
your human workforce focus on tasks that are more complex.
•Create employee-training programs that are sensitive to the new skills
required for your blended workforce.
•Integrate technology where specially trained workers were previously required.
Use the augmentation technologies to make those jobs available to less skilled
workers.
•Evaluate and apply technologies to address some of the worker safety issues
in remote and challenging environments.
#TechVision2015

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Internet
of Me
Outcome
Economy
Platform
(R)evolution
Intelligent
Enterprise
Workforce
Reimagined
1 2 3 4 5
5 Trends

www.accenture.com/AustralianTechVision2015
#techvision2015
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