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Augmented and Virtual Reality: Enhancing Our Real World Experience

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Augmented and Virtual Reality: Enhancing Our Real World Experience

As both consumers and organisations struggle with cognitive overload from the rapidly escalating volume and velocity of data from ever more connected devices, AR offers up a much-needed panacea. Where current internet technologies place access to the right information at the right time at our fingertips, with AR, we will now have it in plain sight.

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Artificial Intelligence: Augmenting our Human Capability & Potential

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Artificial Intelligence: Augmenting our Human Capability & Potential

The disruptive potential of AI is perhaps unprecedented, and while the popular media focuses on a dystopian vision of the future, AI is augmenting our human capability perceptually, cognitively and physically, transforming everyday experiences as well as enabling a collaborative human and machine led transformation. 

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Smart Connected Products and Devices Generating the Data of the Revolution

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Smart Connected Products and Devices Generating the Data of the Revolution

The ‘big data’ generated by smart connected products is business’ new core asset, and capability in analytics the key to unlocking trapped value from the aggregation of multiple data sources within new data lakes. For those who move quickly, there is the opportunity to significantly expand their current industry boundaries.

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Joining 2nd Road part of Accenture Strategy

I'm delighted to be joining the team at 2nd Road, a leading strategic innovation consultancy helping organisations design and deliver new futures, and now part of Accenture Strategy. 2nd Road draws on 25 years of experience providing consulting services in the areas of strategy, innovation, and organisational systems across multiple industries and sectors. The publication of monthly insights on this website will necessarily be placed on hold for the time being.  

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The Business Value of Design & Design Thinking

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The Business Value of Design & Design Thinking

Design delivers the market value that separates the most desirable brands and businesses from the rest. The deep insights uncovered through the design process lead you to build emotion, meaning and identity into your product or service, wherein lies value to the customer, and your source of differentiation.

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