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We’ve seen the future, and it’s connected. And those connections all need to be frictionlessly interconnected themselves. That’s not so easy. Think of the scale. By 2020, expect 50 billion connected devices, or so says Cisco’s John Chambers. The internet he describes will be ten times more influential than it is today. That IoT market will be worth a cool $19 trillion. Let the scramble begin, but watch the match carefully. The real winners won’t be who you expect. The shiny new gadget is only as cool as the world of interconnection it can access. To the owner of the connection ecosystem goes the spoils. Even if you don’t have grandiose expectations, you’re going to be shut out if you’re creating a stand-alone device or app. Delivering the promise of the IoT to your consumer means figuring out how to get the right information to the right device at the right time so that she can make the right decisions.

Who Will connect the connections?

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Mobile devices are getting smart enough to always be on without putting a massive drain on battery power and data consumption. That kind of efficiency has turned Shazam, once a utility that told you the song and artist of music you played for it, into a utility that listens to everything around you. It creates a media playlist based on your life. That gets brilliant once it correlates all that listening to give you a description of your media life and a prediction about what you might like to check out. Now link cognitive computing and it could get prescriptive, anticipating how your tastes might evolve. And you, dear marketer, now have a cognitive listening post in your consumer’s pocket. Just think of the value you could deliver with that! But you had better be, as Ginni Rometty said, focused on security and trust.

ABl: AlWAys Be listening

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There are 3 billion mobile phones in the world, and 2 billion of these people have bank accounts. Yet 85% of consumer transactions are still paper based. Looked at another way, 15% of the global economy is transacted digitally. How can you get into that digital spending spree? Mobile Financial Services (MFS) is an area so ripe for opportunity. And for stumbles. Making someone’s preferred brand of conditioner does not automatically qualify you as a trusted banker in her eyes. But if you have a strong brand partnership and tie-in with a trusted source like a mobile provider or a bank, you could win her over. From micro-credit lending to digital wallets tied to deals and incentives based on consumer behaviors, there is a ton of potential here. M-Pesa and Turkcell are early explorers in a landscape that is still largely untracked. Will that innovation come from Africa? IBM’s Rometty thinks it might. Africa offers people the opportunity to reinvent businesses entirely. As a result, she believes that this is the decade that Africa takes off.

mfs—putting An extrA m in money

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Mobile gaming is huge, as anyone who’s ever flapped a bird, sliced some fruit, or hurled yourself at a thieving green pig, knows. The number of downloaded gaming app is boggling. But that’s not the story to pay attention to, says EA’s Aaron Loeb. Think about the scale of data thrown off by mobile gaming. We can look at the data gamers generate to sift it for universal insights that can help your brand improve mobile engagement and commerce.

When we’re not gaming, it seems we’re all on Netflix or watching some other form of video, and it’s awfully likely a mobile device will be involved. 20% of Netflix content is streamed to mobile, and 2 out of 3 tablet owners use some sort of a mobile device to watch TV. If you’re not omni-device, you’re in trouble.

press plAy to Begin

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My wearable can do this! My wearable can do that! Thinner, lighter, sexier. Stronger, faster, better! Is wearable culture going to be like 5th grade forever? Hopefully not, especially as we better understand why we’re wearing wearable technology. •Wearables fix. They provide us with an exoskeleton of utility, safety and measure which gives us super powers we didn’t have before. •Wearables connect. We’re able to communicate with people through them and establish meaning to time and location. •And wearables vogue. They provide us with a layer of comfort, exude fashion, can establish symbolism, and assimilate into culture. Wearables aren’t a particularly new idea: eyewear in the 13th century; armor in medieval times; and watches in the 16th. Each one of those developments changed the world inexorably. What will wearables change?

WhAt to WeAr?

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