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This theme was kicked off by an interesting session from Ruth Thomson at
Cambridge Consultants.
The quantified self is about measuring yourself, and incorporating measures into
your daily life in order to gain actionable information (not just data) to help make
you fitter, better, whatever it is that you’re interested in.
So in the fitness area, systems can help you improve your performance or
technique – measuring your steps or checking your pulse rate and whether you’re
in the right exercise zone – plus the community aspects allowing you to compare
your performance with someone else’s, or providing data to a coach etc.
And in wellbeing, systems can monitor your posture, sleep, chronic conditions
etc. These are supported through a range of technologies ranging from smart
socks helping with posture to an intelligent pill that knows when you’ve taken it!
Technology availability is improving rapidly – there are many small, lightweight,
cheap and high performing systems – wearable or around us in the environment,
often on our phones – though this isn’t always ideal – eg for the bathroom or
swimming pool (I wear a FitBit Flex, and link this to my digital weighing scales and
iphone / ipad app).
Therefore most consuumers already have part of the system in their pocket and
quantified self systems can piggy back on this existing infrastructure (eg Nike Fuel
Bands potentially being replaced by Apple’s iwatch).
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Cloud storage also means consumers have somewhere to store all of this data and
provide secure access to the right people at the right time.
But most often today is about single devices communicating in silos to the cloud,
not really connected devices communicating intuitively with each other, gathering
data about what you need and the environment and allowing smart inferences on
what you want or need.
Again, we’re at the cusp of this – and we’re getting mass attention, not mass
adoption. But I do think this is something HR should be paying attention to.

In later sessions, Pravin Paratey at Affectv talked about the role that sensors and
devices are playing in the growth of big data as these become incorporated into our
lives. The internet is becoming an extension of our lives, a medium for creating
and interacting rather than just somewhere to find information. And a consequence
of this is that our every action is logged. Businesses need to:


Ask the right questions (what business challenges are you trying to solve?)
Look at how they can augment their existing data – via internal and external
sources
Move to statistical vs rules based approaches to cut through big noise
Accept approximate vs exact data
Understand the difference between big and fast
Manage data security and build trust – and consumers need to understand
that our data is out there.


Splunk provided some examples of developing insights from unstructured data for
e-commerce.

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These are good examples but I didn’t like the suggestion that we need to change
the process of collect – prepare – ask to put more focus onto ask. In my view, we
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Path Intelligence talked about some of their successes in retail eg in shopping
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It was good see an HR
application of big data
coming out finally. But
actually there was a big lack of business functionality throughout much of the day.
I personally think this focus on the technology might be one reason big data is
failing to take off in the way many people have predicted.
The other problem is peoples' push back against providing their data to firms -
which Ernst & Young have been articulating too.

But I still think the HR version of this, the quantified organisation, using wearable
technologies and other devices, will happen. And of course, it's already happening
in places, eg I think this case study on Bank of America and Sociometric Solutions
is quite compelling.
But as always with technology, it's organisational culture rather than the
technology that's key. And it'll be interesting to see whether we end up with QS
being used in a controlling sort of way, a bit like existing work in Amazon's
warehouses, or in a more empowering style, using the information to help
employees make better choices about their actions.
So once again, QS needs to be an HR strategy rather than an IT one.
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