The Future of Publishing (and Information Services): Evolution of Revolution? – For BIIA Members Only – | BIIA.com | Business Information Industry Association

The following are key themes from a presentation given by BIIA Chairman David Worlock in March 2012: What did “Publisher” really mean? … and “Business Information Services and Solutions”?

There is revolution at every turn and evolution on every straight stretch:
- Big Data – taking the analytics to the content
- Open Data – even government is getting involved
- Start‐up economy is vibrant
- Major advances in analytics, extraction and data‐mining
Welcome to the Networked Society with profound changes in relationships
The Attention Economy – Attention is the scarcest commodity in the network. Obtaining and exploiting user attention is thus the highest value:
- Ready for Change? ABOVE ALL – do you really understand how users behave and what they need (not what they tell you they need!)
- Do we know what customers really need? Market pressure on cost, quality and pricing places focus on productivity (save time, resources and people), decision making and compliance and all in real time!
Where is technology going?
A Post-Modern Manifesto for Publishing (and business information services)
- There will be a diminishing emphasis on content, its ownership and proprietary nature
- The asset will become the understanding of customer needs, and turning that into trust and authority by virtue of satisfying those needs with solutions that satisfied my mantra: productivity gain, decision‐making enhancement, and compliance management
Is this a trend or torrent?
- Worlock quotes recent observations of BIIA of company announcements: 36% involved analytics, decision systems, fraud prevention services, workflow tools and only 20% involved b2b content.