Tag Archive: VPI

miiCard and the evolving market for identity services

miiCard, which provides online identity verification services, has made a series of announcements over the last few weeks. Businesses and people are signing up for their user-centric identity service which uses the power of volunteered information to create breakthrough efficiencies...

An ad-free Internet?

An interesting article in the New York Times supports what we’ve been saying for some time. Today’s internet business model is supported by advertising which is driven by sellers trying to find buyers, reach out to them, and persuade them...

WEF report: why data is now a strategic issue

As part of its Rethinking Personal Data project the World Economic Forum has just published its latest paper Unlocking the Value of Personal Data: From Collection to Usage. One of the key passages reads as follows: From passive consent to...

Building relationships for a new data age

When we researched the changing personal data landscape a year ago we identified two underlying trends. Historically, organisations have acted as the data manager and user. But now individuals are becoming managers of their own data and using information as...

Information logistics: the launch of the Digital Asset Grid

Slowly but surely the various pieces of the new Personal Data Ecosystem jigsaw are falling into place. Actually, not that slowly. The pace is hotting up. Today, at the Sibos conference in Osaka, Japan, Ctrl-Shift reports the results of a...

World Economic Forum: trust frameworks and evidence

Just back from the World Economic Forum workshop in Brussels on ‘Unlocking the Value of Personal Data: Balancing Growth and Protection’. The gist of WEF’s argument goes like this. Personal data is emerging as a hugely valuable economic asset –...

Reinventing advertising

This week’s issue of Marketing Magazine carries a cover story written by me called ‘Beyond Advertising: Why Consumer Services Is Trumping Traditional Marketing’. The key passage in the article goes like this: “The simplest and most important driver of change...

August newsletter: Interesting questions about a market poised for growth

In this summer issue we cover our forthcoming research schedule, an update on the midata consultation and some new start-ups. Ctrl-Shift research Increasingly, we’re being asked many of the the same questions about the emerging personal data market so we’re...

Competing for customer loyalty

Loyal customers are the bedrock of business and the benefits of loyalty are well understood. But what does customer loyalty actually mean in today’s changing environment, what are the drivers and factors that determine loyalty, and what are the opportunities...

midata: set to speed up the control shift

The Government has announced its intention to give consumers the statutory right to obtain an electronic copy of data companies hold about them, so that they can use this data for their own purposes. This is a game changing move,...

July newsletter: A new dimension of marketing competition

In this issue we highlight the findings of our study into the impact of new services using Volunteered Personal Information, an insight into developments in the ‘Internet of Things’, and that we looking for someone new to join our team....

Don’t target me, ask me

We’ve been pondering some mega-trends on this site for some while. 1. The rise in the volumes of data available (so called Big Data). 2. The lack of efficiency in the advertising model. 3. How technology is now literally in the hands...

Data: surprisingly reliable, or reliably surprising?

I’ve been catching up a little on underlying theories of information. Here’s what I found. James Gleick, who also wrote Chaos, is a brilliant writer. His book The Information, is a fascinating read but is ultimately disappointing because everything he...

New milestone in personal data landscape

Today marks an important milestone in the personal data landscape. The US based Respect Network – which has developed the award winning Respect Trust Framework enabling members to securely share identity and personal data – has announced two major corporate founding...

Media’s perfect storm

One of the sessions at the recent World Economic Forum Tiger Team meeting in London focused on rethinking advertising. This session made it absolutely clear: traditional media companies – in TV and press in particular – need to reinvent their business models....

Privacy as a personal setting

At the recent World Economic Forum Tiger Team meeting in London I gave a short presentation on the commercial opportunities opened up by empowering individuals with data. (If you want a copy of the presentation, please get in touch). I...

June newsletter: Harnessing customer data to create customer loyalty

In this newsletter we cover our new report on the identity assurance market, hot off the press this week. We also give you a preview of our forthcoming research on customer loyalty, an update on the recent World Economic Forum...

WEF ‘Tiger Team’ meeting

Tomorrow a group of specially invited experts and leaders from across the emerging personal data landscape meet in London to discuss and review the latest outputs from the World Economic Forum’s Re-thinking Personal Data project. There will be contributors, who...

Personal data stores will liberate us from a toxic privacy battleground

The following is a guest post by Alan published yesterday by Wired. I love TED but when it introduced its TEDGlobal 2012 theme of “radical openness” something it said gave me the jitters. Radical openness, it declared with apparently consummate...

May newsletter: Personal data – it is happening here, right now

In this newsletter we cover the latest global and local developments in the personal information market. We trail our next report on Identity Assurance, already a £300m market, and give a round-up of the month’s news. Unfolding developments The market...

The changing customer data landscape

Last week I met with some people from a large high street retailer, reviewing the company’s strategy over the next five years. We talked about where the customer/personal data landscape would be by then. This is a summary of what...