IoT Field Notes: Whiteboard Wireframing

The humble Whiteboard is an import element for capturing product design ideas quickly, organically, naturally. In this article, a few true-life stories, and observations on how the wide-open medium drives flexible creativity.

Can Enterprise IT Borrow From Lean Startup Thinking?

What is the minimum amount of functionality required to engage with your target audience, and get folks to understand the vision? MVP-thinking focuses your effort on the minimum amount of work required - check out this video for more!

IoT Field Notes: Solving Interesting Tech Challenges 2

Three more types of tech challenges that come up in conversations about Smart, Connected Products. The details are interesting, but the higher-level insights are very informative.

IoT Field Notes: Building a Business Case

Asking for the investment? Here's an outline, with examples, for a business case that includes Cost to Build (one-time) and Cost to Run (ongoing), as well as the Benefits (revenue).

IoT Field Notes: Listening to the Voice of the Customer

Introducing new ways of thinking about Digital Products; true stories "from the field" of building Proof of Concept systems to get the Voice of the Customer.

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.

One for Practice: De-risking your Large Initiative

This article describes a powerful risk reduction tactic for large, complex projects - illustrated with a practical example of success.

The Digital Project Budget: A Simple Way to Express Digital Costs

A simple but comprehensive method for defining your budget - gives a complete picture of all the costs, reduces risk by minimizing the unknown, and makes it easier to compare alternatives.

The Next Next Big Thing: AI Will Transform Your Business

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.

Getting Real with the Internet of Things

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.