future proofing your business

Future proofing your businessGetting business ready for a decade of change

• PC and internet revolutions have changed business

• Mobile• Accounting software as an example

Where are we today?

• Today we’re on the cusp of great change like in 1915

How did we get here?

• algorithm• We still have the structures of the twentieth

century• Management is changing• Data feeds

Where next?

• Use windows cleaning robot• The internet of things• Big data• robotics• The Japanese response has been increased automation, so now

we’re seeing companies releasing new equipment that works autonomously.

• We thought machines would look like robots in Lost In Space.• Better than human – Kevin Kelly• Will a robot take your job? – Gary Marcus• Robots and robber barons – Paul Krugman• Myth of the jobless recovery – Matt Yglesias• The end of labor – Timothy Noah

What does the future look like?

• Uber• Changing demographics• Loss of fifty percent of law enforcement

Driverless cars

• Get mobile• Cut costs• Get on the cloud• Reduce debts• Focus on your markets• Understand how tech is changing your customers• Collaboration • Social• Payment systems• Sorting out payment platforms• Brad King – speaking• Africa ..Meshing together the tech

Getting social

Barriers are falling .

• Big Data, big brother -- Described as a Buzzword tsunami

• we are going to have to deal with this.• Barriers to entry are falling• Cost • Margins• Debts• mindset

It’s not just tech changes

NOT business as usual

Contact me

www.paulwallbank.compaul@paulwallbank.com@paulwallbank