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Panel: Creating Value from Connected Things

Jane A — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 12:00:34 +0000

Episode 70

This episode is a recording of the panel discussion and the panelists are Bob Wurdec from ilumi, Gene Han from Target, Upal Gasu from Nokia Growth Partners and JP Abello from Nielsen.

Listen to this podcast (or read the transcript) where Bruce moderates the panel, Show Me the Money – Creating Value from Connecting Things at the Smart Home Summit 2016

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KISSing Dumb Smart Products

Jane A — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 04:26:04 +0000

Episode 61

You’ve heard of the KISS principle, right? Keep it Simple Stupid… Well, I don’t think many consumer smart product makers have. Maybe it’s just where we are in the IoT evolutionary cycle but often they take a perfectly fine, and simple, product and heap on to it a lot of complexity when making it smart. Even worst, this complexity often adds very little incremental value.

Listen to this analysis episode (or read the transcript) with Bruce Sinclair where he discusses how making products smart often reduces their value instead of increasing it

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Finding Nourishment in the IoT Food Chain

Jane A — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 11:00:26 +0000

Is it in the billons or trillions? I can’t remember how many sensors there are supposed to be in 10 or is it 20 years. We get so many different predictions of the number of things in IoT it’s mind-numbing. Mind-numbing in that it’s hard to comprehend the size of the numbers being tossed around and mind-numbing because in trying to outdo each other, pundits count things differently.

Watch this video (or read the transcript) to see Dean Freeman go up and down and across the IoT food chain sizing the food chain along the way

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Mapping the Value beyond the Hype in IoT

Jane A — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 17:00:20 +0000

This IoT Inc Business Meetup features Mark Patel of McKinsey & Company. Join to meet the Silicon Valley ecosystem in person or watch the stream ...

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Introduction to the Business of the Internet of Things

Jane A — Thu, 07 May 2015 16:00:16 +0000

This IoT Inc Business Meetup features Bruce Sinclair of IoT-Inc. Join to meet the Silicon Valley ecosystem in person or watch the stream ...

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Digitizing Physical Assets for Top-Line Growth

Bruce Sinclair — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 09:30:59 +0000

Accenture identified IoT as a bona fide trend in its 2014 Technology Vision Report, with the thesis, the digital-physical blur is extending intelligence to the edge. So why has it taken 10 years for IoT to get its due respect?

Watch this video (or read the transcript) to hear Prith Banerjee explain why Accenture thinks the real opportunity in IoT is in unconventional growth – top line growth. How new services/apps can be created when physical assets are digitized and how journey from a product company to a platform company is transformational

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Outcome-Based Business Models in the Internet of Things

Bruce Sinclair — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 07:40:59 +0000

The Internet of Things is making available a variety of new business models. One that has the biggest potential to radically change the competitive landscape is the outcome-based business model.

Watch this video (or read the transcript) to also hear Edy Liongosari’s thoughts on the similarities and differences between the RFID industry and that of IoT, one of the biggest issues in IoT security and the place of the Cloud in Iot

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Distilling Actionable Insight from the Internet of Things

Bruce Sinclair — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:16:59 +0000

Salesforce.com has been talking “connected devices” for years and if Reid has anything to do with it, customers using Salesforce will plug in their devices just as they plug in any other data about their company.

Watch this video (or read the transcript) to see Reid Carlberg explain how there is no limit in creating customer value

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Internet of Things Roundtable: IoT Platforms

Bruce Sinclair — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 19:25:19 +0000

By Bruce Sinclair
IoT Platform products are still in their infancy, but there are already more than 20 on the market today. Approaches vary, so when making a build or buy decision, consider these critical areas of IoT Platform tech: security, sensor compatibility, analytics compatibility, APIs and standards

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Putting Business First in the Internet of Things

Bruce Sinclair — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 02:25:19 +0000

By Bruce Sinclair

But, however amazing the bling of the tech or the perceived size of the opportunity are, it’s the business of the Internet of Things that must first make sense and its business that must get out in front of the hype, otherwise we run the risk of technology or marketing being the tail that wags the Internet of Things

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