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

System Simulationuniquely experienced