- Government policy
- Political stability
- Corruption
- Foreign trade policy
- Tax policy
- Labour law
- Trade restrictions
- Economic growth
- Exchange rates
- Interest rates
- Inflation rates
- Disposable income
- Unemployment rates
- Population growth rates
- Age distribution
- Career attitudes
- Safety emphasis
- Technology incentives
- Level of innovation
- Automation
- Research & Development activity
- Technology awareness
- Weather
- Climate
- Environmental policies
- Climate change
- Pressure from NGOs
- Discrimination laws
- Antritrust laws
- Employment laws
- Consumer protection
- Health and safety laws
Market Forces
·
What issues affect this industry and are there
shifts happening?
o
Digitalization – the increased use of technology
o
E-Science – the use of technology in Science (e-Science)
o
Fourth Industrial Revolution - readiness to
adopt technology and innovate business models
o
Security and privacy – data protections and
cybersecurity increased focus
·
Which customer segment is the most important and
which one is declining?
o
Astronomy increasing in line with international
trends
o
Bioinformatics increasing with reliance on
machine learning for genomics
·
What do the customers need?
o
An end-to-end solution that ingests data,
analyses the data and stores the data
o
There has been an increasing in data archive
needs
·
Where is the demand increasing?
o
Data archiving is becoming more important for
Astronomers
o
Large scale analysis and data storage increasing
for Bioinformaticians
·
Can customers find other products and services
quite easy?
o
Not at all. This service is bespoke and requires
a considerable amount of expertise that is not commercially available or
feasible
o
Commercial cloud providers do not provide
facilities for research and development
Industry Forces
·
Who are the competitors and new entrants in this
market?
o
Commercial Cloud Providers
o
Commercial Data Science Consultants
·
What do they do better or worse than the
organisation reviewed?
o
They are highly over priced
o
They have bigger economies of scale leading to
decreased infrastructure costs
o
More human resources for technology support
o
They are unable to provide Scientific solutions
for research
·
Which customer segment do they focus on?
o
They tend to go for commercial clients not
research institutions
·
Which products or services can replace those by
your organisation?
o
Cloud Storage
o
Machine Learning
·
How easy can customers switch to them?
o
It is not feasible to switch due to the research
networks
o
They do not have Scientific technical
implementation expertise
o They have no international or local networks with research community
·
Technology trends
o
Emerging technologies
o
Cloud adoption
o
Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning &
Artificial Intelligence
·
Regulatory trends
o
Cybersecurity Bill
·
Societal and cultural trends
o
Digital divide
o
Fourth Industrial Revolution
·
Socioeconomic trends
o
Economic uncertainty and budget cuts
o
Low work force skills
o
Inequality in access to infrastructure resources
o
Historically Disadvantaged Institutions low
financial resources
o
Free Education