{"id":183710,"date":"2023-01-05T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/traders-insight\/eyes-on-the-future\/"},"modified":"2023-02-09T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T20:54:14","slug":"eyes-on-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/traders-insight\/eyes-on-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyes On The Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome to the fifth season of the Future Trends Blog. As in previous years, our intention is to share with our readers&nbsp;<strong>new and interesting developments that help us to understand the future better<\/strong>&nbsp;(and then invest in it), on a roughly weekly basis. Since&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heptagon-capital.com\/the-data-deluge\/\">our very first ever thematic piece of work in 2011<\/a>&nbsp;was on data, it seems only appropriate to begin the year with a novel perspective on this topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We recently had the opportunity to catch up with the&nbsp;<strong>Head of Data Enablement at Specsavers<\/strong>, one of the UK\u2019s largest private companies. Similar to your author, Robbie Priddle is a keen oenophile. Wine is also a relevant metaphor when it comes to considering data in the sense that both terms are misleadingly broad. Just as a bottle of fine Bordeaux is very different to a supermarket Californian plonk, so data management needs to be considered as a very different skill set to data science, data visualisation or data engineering. Big organisations such as Specsavers need to employ people across all these disciplines and part of Robbie\u2019s role is to ensure that&nbsp;<strong>data and analytics is a \u201ccollaborative team sport.\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;This is a lesson other businesses should heed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good businesses need the right data tools. Robbie highlighted emphatically that&nbsp;<strong>\u201cif you\u2019re not in the cloud then you\u2019ll be left behind.\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;We concur. With only about 20% of all workloads globally currently in cloud environments (per IBM), the runway ahead is significant, in our view. When it comes to artificial intelligence, Robbie noted that it was a \u201cmost over-used term\u2026 thrown at almost any data science use case.\u201d More important, in Robbie\u2019s view, is&nbsp;<strong>machine learning<\/strong>. This discipline is critical for building any predictive model, whether it be for forecasting or generating a propensity score (how likely might a customer be to buy a product). Needless to say, the larger your dataset, the better the outputs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked where the biggest areas of growth for analytics lay, Robbie highlighted retail and people. To return to datasets, Specsavers is hoping to leverage its insights in order to improve the clinical and shopping experience in its stores; how, for example, can you optimise layout in order to improve satisfaction and efficiency? For many businesses, staffing constitutes probably the biggest variable cost. With better analytics based, say, around employee activities and engagement, it\u2019s possible to begin to predict which employee may be most susceptible to churn and potentially to pre-empt this. Underpinning both these topics, however, is a consideration of&nbsp;<strong>data ethics and privacy<\/strong>. This was a topic we&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heptagon-capital.com\/season-4-post-27-the-ethics-of-ai\/\">first discussed last year<\/a>&nbsp;but expect only to grow in importance in 2023.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Originally Posted January 5, 2023 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heptagon-capital.com\/season-5-post-1-eyes-on-the-future\/\">Eyes on the future<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<strong><em>The above does not constitute investment advice and is the sole opinion of the author at the time of publication. 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