The convergence of IT and OT has dramatically altered the investing landscape. The convergence of IT and OT dramatically alters investing activities in corporate development. We wake up routinely to the news of one acquisition or another. Most stories repeat the refrain, “Big fish bought little fish”. We hit snooze and move on. However, lately …
How to rethink your go-to-market (GTM) strategy for a connected world. We can build the best camel there is. But can we transport the camel to the right buyer? Do you have the right pallet for it? The right go-to-market (GTM) strategy is needed to ensure you have product-pallet fit to reach your buyers. Beyond …
Reimagine your products for a connected world. Many years ago, I used the phrase IoT = IT + OT as shorthand for how information and communication technologies (ICT) need to be integrated with operational technologies (OT), and how IT organizations and business operations teams need to work collaboratively in order to realize value from IoT. …
For years we have been hearing about the virtues of IoT and specifically how Industrial IoT (IIoT) is the cure for inefficient machine maintenance and unplanned downtime. While all that is true, if zero-downtime (“ZDT”) was such a pain, why aren’t we all rushing to get connected and drive maintenance costs down and uptime up? …
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The hue and cry over Uber’s well-known and much-maligned taxi service is reaching a crescendo. Lawsuits, labour law reviews, strikes, violence, safety and privacy concerns etc. are just a few of the issues surrounding Uber. Regardless, Uber’s service is striking a chord with all of us at multiple levels. It’s a cool app and is very “techy”; …
It has been said that the 2nd decade of a century brings about change at an accelerated pace. So I scurried, looking for evidence. The 2nd decade of the 20th century was devastating with the Great War (1914-1919); the 1810s saw the War of 1812 between Britain and the USA as well as the Napoleonic wars; …
Over the past New Year holidays, I came across a Japanese proverb that made me reflect on strategy (yet again) in the world of business: on how much this word is used, re-interpreted; on how much people aspire to be “strategists”; on how firms develop vision-mission statements and how they are put in to practice; on …
Recently I wondered about how enterprise IT stacks are morphing from a product stack to a services stack and that we are on a path to Prefabricated IT. Let us now look at how morphing of technology, enabled by a new delivery model could change IT and the outsourcing business. Prefab IT Aligns with Outsourcing …
In Part III of this series on business models (See Part I, Part II here), let’s look at how technology, hardware or software, and services interact and the blurring distinctions between technology and service. Those distinctions ultimately are distinctions between humans and technology. We’ll end this with a note on the esteemed Olympian from London …
In Part I of this series of posts on business models, on whether we have new business models in the Information Technology sector, we looked at comparing business models using a Product-Service-Software-Hardware plane or PSSH Plane shown below, with quadrants representing the primary business models of firms. We examined the so-called “new business models” in the …