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Why collaboration must replace zero-sum game for IoT profitability
I guest blogged today @ INEX Advisors today on one of my favorite Internet of Things principles: how thinking collaboratively has to replace I-win-you-lose-zero-sum-game thinking if companies want to really profit from the IoT.
As before, I cited GE as one of the few big companies that’s seizing a strategic advantage in the IoT world by practicing […]
GE gets it about #IoT: collaboration will be critical attitude
I had a fascinating phone interview this week with Christina, “CK” Kerley, a brilliant marketing consultant who’s increasingly moving into the Internet of Things arena. I strongly suggest that you check out her videos.
She was most interested in my comments about the management implications of the IoT. I told her that a lot of companies […]
Collaboration key to Internet of Things
In a recent speech to the 2012 Southern Africa Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference, South Africa’s Telekon’s executive for converged business services Steven White said that collaboration between those in the telecom industry will be key to realizing the Internet of Things’ potential.
I couldn’t agree more about the need for collaboration in all sectors that […]
Will some smart home device makers ever grow souls??
(Please cut me a little slack on this post, dripping with sarcasm: these latest examples of some smart home device makers’ contempt/obliviousness toward customers’ privacy and security shoved me over the edge!).
Once upon a time two smart boys in their dorm room thought up a new service that really made a new technology hum. When […]
Live-Blogging From #LiveWorx!
I’m back at PTC’s annual LiveWorx lollapalooza, gathering ideas for my Industry Week column, starting with a presentation by Dell’s Supply Chain Director, Gentry Pate on how the IoT is transforming their global service parts planning:
real-time connectivity between their vendors & Dellautonomous planning capabilties incorporating predictive modelingreal-time alerts, inventory & delivery timeSmart Warehouse using latest […]
Previewing “The Future Is Smart”: Siemens Leads Way In IoT Transformation
Huzzah!
On August 7th, HarperCollins’ new Leadership imprint (formerly Amacom) will publish The Future Is Smart, my guide to IoT strategy for businesses and the general public. BTW: write me if you’d like to arrange a speaking engagement/book signing event!
As part of the build-up to the release, here’s another excerpt from the book, drawn from Chapter […]
Wahoo! Liveblogging #Liveworx ’18!
Always my fav event, I’ll be liveblogging #LiveWorx ’18. Stay tuned!
Keynote: Jim Heppelmann:
“from a place to a pace” — how fast are we moving?
no longer OK to think of a future destination, builds inertia (“your main competitor”). Disruption may have already happened. Hard to sustain advantage due to pace of change. Must “embrace a pace […]
IoT Design Manifesto 1.0: great starting point for your IoT strategy & products!
Late in the process of writing my forthcoming IoT strategy book, The Future Is Smart, I happened on the “IoT Design Manifesto 1.0” site. I wish I’d found it earlier so I could have featured it more prominently in the book.
The reason is that the manifesto is the product (bear in mind that the original […]
Liveblogging from Internet of Things Global Summit
Critical Infrastructure and IoT
Robert Metzger, Shareholder, Rogers Joseph O’Donnell
a variety of constraints to direct government involvement in IoT
regulators: doesn’t trust private sector to do enough, but regulation tends to be prescriptive.
NIST can play critical role: standards and best practices, esp. on privacy and security.
Comparatively, any company knows more about potential and liabilities of IoT than […]
A Vision for Dynamic and Lower-Cost Aging in Cities Through “SmartAging”
I’ve been giving a lot of thought recently about how my vision of I0T-based “SmartAging” through a combination of:
Quantified Self health apps and devices to improve seniors’ health and turn their health care into more of a partnership with their doctors
and smart home devices that would make it easier to manage their homes and “age […]
