Digitizing paper health records is a far cry from the benefits we get from our digital prototype. Digital Health Record to Digital Twin The world of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is awash with stories of how digital twins will create value via predictive maintenance. Consider the zillion discussions we have everyday on how early detection …
I want my Digital Twin, not an Electronic Health Record Read More »
New modes of consumption changes how assets are owned, operated, and paid for. New ways of consuming products alters the entire Thing Lifecycle — from product design to asset operations, not just the making of an Internet of Things product. We saw in previous articles in this series on digitization of a physical thing how the four stages …
The design and manufacturing processes are profoundly impacted by the digitization of a physical thing. Digitization of a physical thing is more than the Internet of Things (IoT). More than connecting the thing and performing predictive maintenance. We saw this in part 1 of this series. In part 2, we will take a closer look at …
Not Open Sesame to Software Software may be eating the world. Yet, blindly wanting to be a software company could eat you up and chew you out if 3 fit questions are not addressed. I listened while the speaker pounded their fists on the lectern and declared. “Walmart is a software company. Ford is a software …
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Digitization has a profound effect on the lifecycle of a Thing, from design to its demise. Don’t we love stories of IoT (Internet of Things) and how predictive maintenance delivers economic value? We are fascinated by the phase of a Thing’s life that deals with operations and maintenance. Many consider a digital twin as a means …
Digitizing a Thing’s Life: Part 1 — Beyond Maintenance Read More »
It has become commonplace to hear news from the Big 5 in technology – Facebook-Microsoft-Apple-Google-Amazon. FMAGA for short, if you are like me and can’t recall who is in the Big 5 club. One day we hear from them about the cloud or the Internet of Things. The next day we hear about new phones, …
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Is an organization that focuses intensely on customer satisfaction be the utopia of government itself? We have all heard of it. The maniacal focus on customer satisfaction. Nay, customer delight. The focus on free cash flow. The focus on continuous improvement of a “flywheel” business model that delivers growth and value. The one that strikes …
Sensors have come to be a metaphor for digitization. Sensors have existed for longer than the internet has, and much longer than the Internet of Things (IoT). Once, canaries sensed danger and martyred themselves in coal-mines. Now drones do sensing in hurricanes and droids do it in nuclear reactors. While at the sensor conference in …
How should we re-design care pathways based on this new data flow provided by the Internet of Things? Joining IoT and healthcare and leveraging connectivity to deliver care is not as easy as it seems. The usual refrain on IoT goes like this: You connect a device to the cloud. Data magically flows from the device …
Your business strategy and your customers should dictate how you define your IoT platform. Your business needs should dictate what your IoT platform is. Not vendor definitions. They come in all shapes and sizes. Hoards of them. They are called IoT Platforms. They are hard to differentiate. They combine two words that we wax eloquent …
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