IoT Field Notes: The Cloud is a Fog Right Now

Tech folks in your organization may be overcomplicating and/or underestimating some of the aspects of "the Cloud". This enabling technology has some fairly important new features and capabilities that you need to understand more fully.

IoT Field Notes: How do People Start?

Product teams that are exploring the possibility of smart, connected products fall into one of five different groups; this article will help you understand how to take the next step with each.

IoT Field Notes: Introducing Something New

Why aren't we moving faster? This story of a quick, simple back-of-envelope calculation that showed the large potential of a new product idea really got the team to think.

The Next Next Big Thing: AI Will Transform Your Business

2 November, 2014
Internet of Things, Purposeful Innovation
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The next big-impact advance in Information Technology will be Artificial Intelligence. In this article we lay out the simple case and detail the impact it will have on your business.

Thinking Big with the Internet of Things

27 October, 2014
Internet of Things, Purposeful Innovation
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I was sent a link to this video from a friend at Gartner, after our conversations last month at Symposium. It's a great topic - the Internet of Things on Formula 1 race cars - sexy stuff, and van Manen's statistics really boggle the mind. Check it out - there are a number of specific things to listen for ... [ted id=1802] Just a few thoughts ... The idea of continuous improvement is heavily baked in to the motor racing…

The Contrarian Truth driving Digital Business

A core truth about "digital business": we will only really succeed by understanding how to connect with people.

A Framework for Starting the Internet of Things Conversation

17 September, 2014
Popular, Communication, Internet of Things
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Accelerate your IoT exploration with this simple framework for explaining the building blocks of IoT solutions; target the areas that present the biggest unknowns.

When Will the Internet of Things Get On Your Radar Screen?

15 September, 2014
Purposeful Innovation, Internet of Things
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When introducing a new topic like the Internet of Things, you may be disappointed - at first. Your organization is still waiting; when will we think a little longer term? How to be ready for opportunities that may present themselves.

Getting Real with the Internet of Things

8 September, 2014
Internet of Things, Purposeful Innovation
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Most manufacturing companies face challenges when contemplating Digital Products and the IoT, because they are not making Highly Valuable Things or Mass-Market Things, but Specialty Things – niche products with very targeted appeal. And “Information as a Product/Service” will be a radical departure.

Suburban Robots that Monitor Reality (The Internet of Things)

13 March, 2013
Purposeful Innovation, Internet of Things
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Another month, another presentation - something I am trying to do more of this year, somewhat to the detriment of my blog post frequency. However, I may have one or two new posts to put together based on the content of this deck. Here's a link to the slides I am presenting this week (Thursday 14 Mar 2013) in Rolling Meadows, IL and next week (Thursday 21 Mar 2013) in Chicago. The title is The Internet of Things - part…