Tag: Business
Economy vs. Comfort: Different Approaches to Smart Home Automation, by Country
Until recently, a smart home was considered something of a luxury: pricy and not very frequently adopted by middle-class households. This situation is changing rapidly and experts forecast a drasti...
Six Evolving Business Models for the Smart Home
For decades, the promise of the smart home has tantalized businesses looking to capitalize on the dynamics of connected technologies in the home, predicting and managing the desires of the occupan...
How To Prepare Your Workforce for a Digital Transformation
When discussions arise around a digital transformation journey, the focus is generally put on the technology. After all, in theory, it is technologies like machine learning, artificial intelligenc...
Don’t Get Lost in the IoT Data Jungle
Anyone considering embarking upon their first IoT project knows what an overwhelming experience it can be. There's the endless plethora of opinions and conjecture to wade through, not to menti...
When Developing Smart Solutions, Should You Build, Buy, or Partner?
The Internet of Things (IoT) enables vendors to create an entirely new line of “smart” solutions for its existing and new markets. While the decision to go “smart” is straightforward, the decision...
Is Your Organization Ready for Industry 4.0?
Many articles on digital transformations and industrial IoT focus solely on technology enablement. In doing so, they underestimate the negative impact of poor organizational alignment.
Assuming...
How to Successfully Pitch Your IoT Product
Forget about thirty-second elevator pitches: If you can’t tell me the differentiator of your IoT business in one sentence, you don’t have a differentiator.
That’s a bold statement, I know. But if ...
Finding Generation IoT: New Talent for a New Era
The Internet of Things (IoT) is making every industry a technology industry. Just look at today’s automobile. With hundreds of sensors, cameras, computers, wireless communications, and standards-b...
Products Come and Go. Is Your IoT Brand Ready for Market?
The IoT ecosystem is home to a plethora of platform companies that will monitor and manage your IoT devices -- and many IoT platform companies will also sell you end-to-end solutions complete with ...
6 Things IT Executives Must Do To Accelerate IoT Adoption
Are you ready for the Internet of Things (IoT)? Despite its transformational potential, most organizations are not.
In an era of rapid disruption and digital transformation, IT executives and mana...