Simple Ways to Quickly Build Valuable Digital Experience
Practical thoughts and examples - how to manufacture time and attention, to get hands-on, relevant skills in new technologies
Being Digital in a Human World
Digital business can create real value for all stakeholders - employees, customers, suppliers, shareholders … as long as the human factor of these relationships is kept in mind.
IoT Field Notes: Four Ingredients for Transformation (Pick 2!)
To get your innovation idea off the ground, there are four important ingredients that can make the transformation happen. Not all are required – but you need at least two of these to have any chance of getting things moving. If you have only one? Here are some ideas to fill the gap.
The Biggest Innovation Hurdle: Getting to Why
When you are driving to innovation, target key stakeholders (like Customers and your internal Front Line) and address their concerns. This approach will help pull change through the organization.
May you live in interesting times …
(mythical Chinese curse) We truly do live in interesting times; world, political, and economic events over the past days, weeks, and months have impacted us all. Some may see these as exciting and positive - others see fear, uncertainty, and doubt. But it is no doubt interesting. Truth be told, in our world of Information and Technology, there is a similar high level of "interesting things" happening; mega-shifts that impact peoples' lives and livelihood, due to advances in technical capabilities:…
IoT Field Notes: How to Identify Customer Value (Original)
A practical method for zeroing in on where value is created by digital products and services; it depends a lot on the Value Chain (how products eventually get to the End Customer).
Getting Started with the Intranet of Things
Nope - not a typo! When I speak to groups about Smart Connected Products, I specifically call out the use of the term from Porter's HBR articles in 2015. We are talking about adding information as a new and differentiating product feature, adding data about how those products are operating as new, value adding services for our customers. We are specifically not talking about using sensors and smart devices to measure and monitor processes our own shop floor - the…
IoT Field Notes: The Seed Fund
A practical process to carve out some of your budget to seed innovation projects for the product development folks, looking to experiment with the Internet of Things.
IoT Field Notes: Why Should I Care?
Looking to introduce ideas that are a significant departure from the norm? How to put your ideas in a context that decision makers will understand.
3D Printing Requires Wildly Different Thinking
Additive Manufacturing faces slow adoption in most industrial companies due to material costs - and the challenge for designers to think differently about what was previously impossible.