Digitalization

I attended into a one day seminar in Finlandia talo that was organized by Cisco called "Suomi ja digitalisaatio – nyt visioinnista toteutukseen" (Cisco Connect 2015). The topics of the presentations were closely related to ideas about conrete and virtual businesses (Virtual and concrete) and ideas presented by several speakers in (Nexterday and Slush).

Several good points in different presentation. Some ideas that I picked up:

• IT and business are coming together: you should not have separate IT strategies and business strategies. The modern IT means providing platforms and tools for business to become more effective (How big is big data)
• Datacenter business have interesting potential as part of the energy business. Sonera is building large scale datacenter into Helsinki. The datacenter is planned to have 15 000 m3 of space, can contain 5000 racks and have electrical power of 24 MW. The datacenter can sell excess heat for city district heating network.
• Disruptive ideas. Digitalization makes possible to reach customers in any business bypassing traditional ways customers interact with the business (Virtual and concrete). Disrupt or be disrupted said some presenter meaning traditional business needs to restructure itself to be competitive from customers perspective. Some presentors argued that any organization should have a unified way to interact with the customers so they feel the service to be on the same level desptite which communication means are used. These are the same things that were outlined by Mr Dixon and Mr Nordström (Nexterday and Slush).
• One guest argued that this will also happen to healthcare as any part of the healthcare organization needs to be able to reach the population directly to be able to survive. Very interesting ideas as Finland is about to conduct a healthcare reform in the upcoming years.

More information:

• In Finnish
• The Cisco Connect 2015: "Suomi ja digitalisaatio – nyt visioinnista toteutukseen" (Cisco Connect 2015)
• Valtiovarainministeriö: Digitalisaatio (Linkki)