coverage. The resulting public scrutiny will affect the organization’s normal operations and also could have a political, legal, financial and governmental impact on its business." 3 Institute for Crises Management
can be resolved by a management assigned to it 2. ❖ internal business problem ❖ can be resolved by the management assigned to it, with the help from higher management 3. ❖ internal business problem ❖ potential of going public 4. ❖ serious situation ❖ likely to spread to the public ❖ direct and strong impact on the business 6
Have Been Prevented” how could it be predicted? Wal-Mart finishes a long business relation with Flager Flager’s looses 95% of it’s income In order to survive, Flagler became a video archive for anyone looking for evidence in suits against the Wal- Mart Normaly, Wal-Mart was constantly sued Flagler charges 200€/h for video research There was no contract, so Wal-Mart had no rights on the tapes.
dynamics within social economic systems Using data analysis, we might understand these dynamics (partly) Analyzing data can help avoiding & managing... ❖ socio-economic crises, ❖ systematic instabilities, ❖ and other contagious cascade-spreading processes 9
systems due to... ❖ non-linear dynamics (small events can lead to massively consequential results) ❖ increasing interdependence (globalization, development of global communication networks, etc) 10
not being able to predict it will form” (Mandelbrot) ❖ Impossible to know your complete environment and interrelated variables “One alteration destroys years of conformation” (Taleb) ❖ Knowledge about your environment can be swept away by one alteration 12
automated data collection tools ❖ database technology Mature developments in database technology ➡ Tremendous amounts of data stored in databases, data warehouses and other information repositories ➡ Need for automatic knowledge extraction Solution: Data Mining 14 we are drowning in data, but starving for knowledge! “
gaps in our knowledge and understanding of techno-social- economic-environmental systems ❖ predict crises or identify systematic weaknesses, and help to avoid or mitigate impacts of crises ❖ enable real-time sensing and data collection (¨reality mining¨) to reduce mistakes and delays in decision making 16 motivation
transactional data, customer data) vs external (web, news media, social media, metadata) Information: ❖ Pattern, associations, relationships among data can provide information Knowledge: ❖ Information can be converted into knowledge about historical patterns and future trends 18
analyzing data But ❖ contemporary challenges require real-time reactions to changes in respective environment Continuous data analysis over streaming data 20
smart apps even smarter. The API accesses Google's machine learning algorithms to analyze your historic data and predict likely future outcomes. Using the Google Prediction API, you can build the following intelligence into your applications. Link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u39rCNFWDEA google flu trends