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Microsoft Innovation Path
Greg StoneChief Technology Officer
Microsoft Australia
acknowledgements
• this is NOT a presentation about Microsoft products
• question: How do we improve our service/product strategy
• … drew extensively from the following :
• S2Intelligence and Dr Bruce McCabe
• Centre for Information Worker, Microsoft
• Microsoft Research
agenda
• fundamental shifts
• social & economic
• technology
• some things we’re thinking about
• software• communications• the office• collaboration• mobility• home
impacts responses
social & economic shifts
shifting demographics information economy evolution of industry
2000 2005 2010 2015 2020
social &economic shifts
global populations
aging
urbanizing
more ethnically complex
increasing generationaldivide in workforce
labor & talent shifts
Shared parent duties, grandparent childcare, work casual-isation
gifted employees gainingbargaining power
Increasing demand for transparency and accountability
Sharp divide between gifted workers and rest
Globally distributed , active worker pool
• shifting demographics
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Growing up with/ without Internet
work structure, place & independence
work structure, place & independence
• further specialisation – business + roles
• org boundaries more fluid
• org internal structure much looser – eg, call centres work at home operators – globally
• KW less structured – blending personal and working life.
• life generally – more interruptive – workday more fragmented, project based
• greater percentage of KW’s self-employed – remember Charles Handy, The Elephant and the Flea, 2001
Source: S2Intelligence - Report 2008
2000 2005 2010 2015 2020
Greater connectivity& availability of info
growing complexityin maintainingprivacy & securityof networks& info
Network independent comms
Improved interoperability between –Devices, People Systems
more & morepersonal infobeing shared –and corporate
increased individual& collectiveknowledge creation/access
Volume of digital info grows exponentially
Unstructured: Text, Image, audio, video
Role of Semantic s
social &economic shifts
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• information economy
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Volume of digital info grows exponentially
2000 2005 2010 2015 2020
User generatedcontent
• Especially web based
• Building blocks and
process
increased pace oftech innovation& adoption
non-traditionalbusiness models &new organizationalstructures
Software design and utilised by non-technical people
micro-work
mass customization-
new consumergroups demandcustomization
social &economic shifts
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• evolution of industry
technology shifts• interacting with information
• sharing information
• understanding information
Processing
Storage
Interconnection
We have heard about
these
What about their impact?
2000 2005 2010 2015 2020
natural UI
displayseverywhere cloud computing
augmentedreality
context awaresystems
adaptive UI
adaptivedevices
technology shifts• interacting with information
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ubiquitouscomputing
augmentedmemory
2000
2005 2010 2015 2020
virtualization
• Proxies
• Views
mobility –doing more while moving
role-basedsolutions
integratedworkflowmanagement
immersive collab
shared officeenvironments
no office…..
live personalprofiles - KN
cloud computing
machine translation: speech-text-text
transparentsecurity, ID& Access
technology shifts•
• sharing information
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2000 2005 2010 2015 2020
BI everywhere
dynamic datavisualizations
cloud computing
metadataeverywhere
• timelinesrelationship mapsgraphs
search• pervasivesemantic metadataimplicit querynatural language
mash-ups &composite apps
technology shifts•
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• understanding information
some things we’re thinking about…
• software
• communications
• collaboration
• mobility
• the office
• the home
• access all your data from any device - mesh
• everything gets tagged with metadata for later use
• automatic saving and versioning
• Change concept of access-no need to "open" or "close"
content in applications
• dynamic data visualizations wherever data lives
software
• unified contact numbers and “inboxes”: business, personal,
private
• Person not device centric - best way to reach you
• seamlessly integrated calendars: work, family & team
• live personal profiles: sensor driven & context aware
• managed across contact groups: family, friends, work
communications
• Getting things out of your head – to share them
collaboration
• software managed collaboration environments
• searchable meeting recording and playback
• shared digital workspaces with real-time co-authoring
• auto voice transcription and language translation
• multi-user, interactive surfaces
collaboration
• Richer multi-modal interfaces -drive, walk, fly. Touch, talk,
look
• context aware devices
• location, orientation, pressure, movement
• available input/output peripherals
• Much more work done using handsets
mobility
• software managed shared office environments
• scheduling, way finding & targeted audio
• ambient biometrics drive login & personalization
• energy efficient LED lighting & ergonomic systems
• surface displays available as virtual additions
• low-cost shared devices with auto-recharging-fuel cells
the office
• elements of the home environment adapt to context
• mobile devices, people, work/entertainment
• interactive surfaces: kitchen counter, refrigerator, coffee
table
• the living room becomes a virtual meeting space,
leveraging the home entertainment system
• office solutions find domestic usage
the home
thank you
connecting home, work play
• all orgs will compete for talent – globally
• people’s lives will demand different interactions through
technology
• microsoft still about platforms –
• Hosted core
• Access to supplementary services
• partner opportunities augmenting solutions over this.
• …attend Citizenship breakout – Voices for Innovation
takeaways
…go forth
and prosper!!Citizenship breakout –
Voices for Innovation