Innovation Insight and the Florida Bureau of Labor Statistics performed an economic impact estimate of Florida's digital media sector, focusing on digital gaming and entertainment. Some hilights include:
For every state dollar invested in interactive digital entertainment companies under the Floridaʼs Entertainment Industry Financial Incentive program, state and local governments generate an additional $3 in tax revenue from tax receipts from direct, indirect, and induced economic activity by the qualified projects (2009 impacts).
Statewide, the interactive digital entertainment sector as a whole employs at least 2,290 direct jobs, resulting in a 2009 economic impact of over $873 million and 6,100 jobs. Annually, the sector generates more than $32 million in state and local tax revenue.
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Guy Hagen presented "Analytics 2010: How To Get Started with Free Tools for Monitoring Social Media" at the 2010 Internet and Technology Summit in Orlando Florida (June 23, 2010). The presentation was part of a panel entitled "Beyond Being Social: The Business of Social Media", along with co-panelist Bernie Borges of Find and Convert.
In contrast to most of Mr. Hagen's presentations, which often focus on social media strategy and sophisticated research and measurement tools, this presentation focused on enabling every audience participant with the tools necessary to begin brand monitoring immediately, with no cost other than their time. The presentation deck is linked below.
Guy Hagen will be a panelist regarding US Modeling and Simulation technology markets at the ModSim World Canada conference in Montreal, Quebec on June 14-15 (2010).
Guy Hagen was a presenter at this year's TEDx conference in Tampa Bay (2/12/2010). The video from his talk "the rise of social intelligence", as well as the fantastic talks by Brent Britton, Charles Armstrong and others, on the TEDx Tampa Bay YouTube Channel. His actual presentation - which is visible in the background of his talk, but not very legible - is linked here below.
Guy Hagen will be presenting "Social Media: Strategy and Intel" as a panelist at the Internet and Technology Summit 2009 to be held on August 25, 2009 at the Intercontinental Hotel (Westshore) in Tampa. Co-panelists will be Kevin Hourigan (Bayshore Solutions) and Bernie Borges (Find and Convert).
Innovation Insight is announcing "Video Insight", a new internet-based audience response research system. This system provides a low-cost, flexible alternative to the focus group / response-dial based systems used in the recent presidential debates to show moment-by-moment audience reactions while the candidates were speaking.
Now you can collect real-world reactions for your commercials, PSAs, executive speeches, closing arguments or other video media in a manner that shows which parts work - and which parts may generate unwanted reactions. You can watch a short demonstration video below:
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Guy Hagen will be joining colleagues Brent C. J. Britton (Grey | Robinson), Charles Armstrong (Spark Labs), and Marvin Scaff (Dex Imaging) on a panel discussing the trends and emerging strategies for entrepreneurial development in the hyperconnected world. The panel will be hosted by St. Petersburg College on June 18, 2009; details are available at http://bit.ly/10cYx8.
Guy Hagen was interviewed as a technology expert in a May 18 article of Entrepreneur. The article is titled "What are your customers thinking?" and focused on advances in video mining and the future of market research. The full article is available here: http://www.entrepreneur.com/technology/newsandtrends/article201702.html
On April 14, 2009 Guy Hagen was interviewed on the Twitter Tuesday podcast by host Ken Cook regarding Twitter, and his Twitter applications Twitseeker.com and Twinfluence.com. The podcast is available at the Twitter Tuesday Archives.
On December 6, 2008 Guy Hagen was interviewed on the Tampa Bay CEO Lounge podcast by colleague Brent Britton regarding new media strategies. The podcast is available at the CEO Lounge Archives.
In only three weeks, over 7,500 twitter.com users have profiled themselves on the twinfluence.com twitter influence application developed by Innovation Insight. Twinfluence provides a variety of analytics for measuring a "twitterer's" audience, reach, and network.
Innovation Insight has formed a consulting partnership with leading Florida public relations agency Tucker/Hall to provide social media strategy and research strategy services.
Innovation Insight has been retained by the Florida Photonics Cluster to undertake a comprehensive industry cluster analysis for Florida's lasers, optics, and photonics industry. This is an update to the 1999 study, and will include national benchmarking against patents, grants and procurement, employment, research and innovation activity in this high-tech sector.
Innovation Insight has been contracted by the National Center for Simulation to conduct a series of groundbreaking "future mapping" and visioning sessions for the national modeling and simulation industry, as part of a comprehensive industry cluster analysis.
Guy Hagen has recently authored a White Paper for the Florida Public Relations Association (FPRA), which will be released to FPRA members during the first quarter of 2008. The White Paper is entitled "Social Media: New Analytics for a New Century", and provides an overview of the types of measurement information relevant to strategic public relations that can be obtained through social media sources.
Abstract: Research has always been a hallmark of public relations. Analytical methodologies such as surveys, focus groups, individual depth interviews (IDIs), and secondary research are taught in every university public relations curriculum for their value in targeting PR activities, measuring public opinion, evaluating brands, and managing reputations. Traditional research methods have not been replaced, but the advent of social media and advances in research and computing technology are creating new tools and techniques that today's PR professionals cannot afford to ignore.
Innovation Insight has been retained by Real Estate Research Consultants Inc. to conduct empirical economic cluster analysis in support of the Seminole Way development project. The goal of the project will be to identify competitive industry and technology clusters that support economic development, as a logical extension of the "Innovation Way" region connecting Orlando's Lake Nona region UCF, and Seminole County.
Guy Hagen has been recently appointed as a technology reviewer for both the University of Central Florida and the University of South Florida's Matching Grant Research Programs. Collectively, over three million dollars per year are allocated through these programs for university-industry research partnerships. As a reviewer, Mr. Hagen will assist in reviewing proposals and white papers for technical and commercial viability and their meritability for investment. Proposals are received from many technology and research disciplines including microelectronics, aerospace, information technology, medical technology and biotech, modeling and simulation, photonics, engineering, physics, and chemistry.
Mr. Hagen's appointment was based upon his past experience managing a $13.3M Department of Defense / Department of Energy technology investment fund, and experience managing the USF Matching Grant Research Program fund from 1997 to 2002.
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As Network-Centric Operations increasingly become the method by which the US expects to build tactical advantage in combat, the sophistication of attacks against tactical
networks is also likely to increase. Improving robustness and resilience against attacks designed to maximize damage to overall network structures can be addressed through the application of network analytic concepts. This paper demonstrates the “macro-level” implications
of targeted versus random attacks against networks, and provides a compromise strategy wherein individual nodes prioritize reconnections to maximize network-level resiliency
with minimum additional computational requirements to existing packet- and hardware-
level operations.
This paper also discusses the relevant graph theoretic/ network analytical concepts relevant to network resiliency, such as degree (the number of connections per node), dependency / betweenness (the reliance of communications on a small number of nodes), distance / pathlength (the number of intervening nodes required to connect nodes in the network), and path redundancy / walks (the number of shortest-distance alternate routes).
Empirical findings are presented based upon monte-carlo simulations of randomly generated networks, wherein different strategies of network attacks and network reconnection strategies are measured for their impacts on the integrity of the overall networks. The implications are significant primarily for self-adapting free-space optical military and satellite networks wherein network resilience is an important consideration.
Some findings include:
Even random, distributed free-space networks have naturally occuring traffic zones and nodes that are sensitive to removal.
Topology-targeting attacks against distributed networks can be over twice as damaging as random attacks.
Targeted network attacks can isolate nodes, increase routing congestion, reduce routing options and increase relay distances.
Targeted reconnections – based upon a node-level "stitching" strategy – can be significantly more effective at healing attacked networks than alternative methods.
Dowload: Graph Theoretic Strategies Against Attacks on Free-Space Optical Networks
Enterprise Florida Inc. and Innovation Insight have released their latest report regarding corporate headquarters in the United States. The report benchmarks US states for their competitiveness and ability to attract corporate headquarters, and examines trends and factors that influence where Fortune 500 companies chose to locate their headquarter facilities.
Headquarters are largely recognized as attractive economic development targets, and this report also examines the advantages, disadvantages, and other considerations regarding corporate headquarters from an economic development perspective.
The report focuses on Florida, and contributed to the official designation of "Corporate Headquarters" as a Florida "High-Impact" targeted sector. However, the report will be relevant to any company, economic development organization, or site selection consultant with interest in current corporate headquarters facility location.
Download 2006 Report: Corporate Headquarters in Florida and the United States
Guy Hagen (President) was cited in the On The Go section of the January/February 2007 edition of the Maddux Business Report for his board activities with the Greater Tampa Bay chapter of the National Defense Industry Association.
Innovation Insight has been contracted by the Florida High Tech Corridor Council to document the "downstream" qualitative and economic impacts of the External Matching Grant program at the University of South Florida (USF) and the University of Central Florida (UCF). This is an interesting, Council-funded program that commits $1M each year to its partner universities to underwrite research partnerships with private sector Florida companies for product and process improvement -- essentially applied technology and engineering grants for economic development and intellectual property development.
Innovation Insight, in partnership with the USF Center for Economic Development Research (CEDR) will be conducting surveys and focus groups of company partners, benchmarking 3-year growth rates of participating companies, and documenting other types of impacts on the faculty, graduate students and alumni, and the Corridor's economy. The project is projected to conclude by March, 2007.
In October, 2006 Guy Hagen was elected to the Tampa Bay chapter of the National Defense Industry Association's (NDIA) "Member at Large" board position. The responsibilities of the Member at Large include representing the interests of small defense and technology businesses.
"Social capital" is becoming a buzzword in many sectors. This working paper compiles a number of presentations, instructional certification course material, and research that Innovation Insight has done regarding social capital. The paper introduces how the concept of social capital can be applied and measured to weave targeted networks that can be leveraged for a particular purpose, or used as a measurement and evaluation tool for companies and grantmaking organizations.
The working paper is available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format here.
Innovation Insight has been retained in 2006 by Enterprise Florida Inc. to assess Florida's competitiveness regarding corporate headquarters of all sizes. The research will include state benchmarking, a review of economic development incentives, statewide consensus building regarding recruitment and attraction strategies, and a formal application to have "headquarters" classified as a Florida "high-impact" designated industry sector. This will enable qualified headquarters projects for state incentive assistance. The work includes collaboration by the University of South Florida Center for Economic Development Research (CEDR), and is targeted for completion by October, 2006.
Innovation Insight has formed a strategic collaboration with financial services research giant Dalbar to offer specialized market research services to Florida's banking, insurance, securities, and financial companies under the name "Arrowstrike". This collaboration delivers the perfect combination of flexibility, responsiveness, reputation and capacity for its services including:
Surveys
Focus Groups
Consumer Confidence
Service Quality
Interviews
Benchmarking
Relationship Management
Market Trends
Organizational Network Analysis
In-House Call Center Staff
New product needs and testing
Organizational analysis
Regulations and compliance
Leveraging the Latin America connection
Sampling opportunities for community and internet banks
Customer reactions to outsourcing and offshoring changes
Winning Floridas top producers
Understanding the affluent Hispanic market
Customer experiences with service, sales and call center staff
Best technology practices
Customer opinions and brand management
NASD, SEC, and state regulator client level checks and broker / client malfeasance screening
For more information, visit the Arrowstrike.net web site or contact Innovation Insight directly.
Orlando Sentinal. July 15, 2005: "Digital media fills TV, movie void"
Orlando Business Journal, July 18, 2005: "Area's film biz big but shifting, new study finds: Midsize firms fueling growth in revenue, jobs, research shows."
Corporate Real Estate Leader, July 2005: "Decentralizing the Nation's Financial Services Mission-Critical Functions", a case study of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation and the move of financial companies away from Manhattan after the 9/11 tragedy.
St. Petersburg Times. January 17, 2005: "Recruiter to cast for big fish for Tampa", what does our research say about recent layoffs?
Tampa Tribune, January 13, 2005: "JPMorgan To Cut 1,900 At Tampa Call Center", discussion of recent events regarding activity in this cluster
Tampa Tribune, November 3, 2003: "Fishing for Big Business", an overview of research on Florida's financial services industry
2004 Baseline Analysis of Offshoring in the Tampa Bay Region
Tampa Bay Business Journal, November 8 2004: "Study shows Bay area startup companies outsource for IT"
Tampa Tribune, October 26 2004: "Offshoring's Impact has been Mild on the Bay Area"
St. Petersburg Times, October 26, 2004 "Outsourcing Barely Affects Bay Area"
Tampa WTSP Channel 10, October 25 2004: "Offshoring: Bay Area Jobs Overseas is a Growing Trend"
Tampa Bay Business Journal, October 25 2004: "Offshoring Study Shows Business Size is a Major Factor"
Tampa Tribune, October 25 2004: "Study: Perception of Outsourcing Worse"
St. Petersburg Times, October 25 2004:"USF Outsourcing Study" release
Tampa Bay Business Journal, July 5, 2004: "USF Center Hires Local High-Tech Team to Study Outsourcing", announcing a collaborative research project to study Offshoring headed by Innovation Insight.
Tampa Tribune, May 6, 2004 "USF to Study Export of Jobs And Its Effect On Bay Area", discussion of offshoring trends regarding financial services.
Tampa Bay Business Journal, November 7, 2003: "Cooking up Collaboration", a discussion of the implications of the Florida Scripps facility on central Florida biotech (click here for a direct link to the Business Journal)
