Wed, 10 May 2023
Solo episode with Bruce Sinclair, the host of the show, discussing how smart digital can enable predictive maintenance for margin improvement and data-driven business models to increase the exit multiple. In businesses where maintenance has a meaningful impact on margins, we can use artificial intelligence to predict when assets will fail in advance of any noticeable signs of a problem. By using smart digital to prevent unplanned downtimes, we increase the company’s operational efficiency to improves its margins, for a relatively low investment in tech. Collecting proprietary monetization data enables the development of novel business models that until recently, were impossible to deploy. Moving from one-and-done product sales to sales that recur to continuously generating revenue are rewarded by the next buyer paying a higher EBITDA multiple. In this episode, Bruce discusses:
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Wed, 15 March 2023
Solo episode with Bruce Sinclair, the host of the show, discussing how smart digital can algorithmically cross sell products for customer expansion and use AI to identify new markets to enter for market expansion. Smart digital improves existing customer expansion strategies and enables new ones for physical products, services and environments, that until now were only available to software companies. Automatic consumable cross selling can be emulated in the industrial sector and any other sector where one product depends on another product to operate. Using AI and data mining to discover market adjacency insights can augment or replace the traditional market expansion playbooks used today. The candidate list of market adjacencies is derived from primary data and only gets deeper and wider with time. Deciding on which market to expand into becomes a repeatable analytical exercise based on real customer data. And unlike traditional techniques, smart digital market expansion also determines the best product configuration and target persona for each potential new market. In this episode, Bruce discusses: Customer expansion by upselling like a software company for non-software products. Other types of customer expansion strategies supported by smart digital. Case study of HP’s smart printers. Using proprietary data from a smart product to identify market adjacencies with artificial intelligence. How smart digital can help us identify the proper product configuration to enter a new market. In this episode, Bruce discusses:
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Mon, 20 February 2023
Solo episode with Bruce Sinclair, the host of the show, discussing data-driven value creation for tech & software companies and data-driven product expansion with fintech for traditional companies. Product expansion driven by proprietary primary customer data excerpt: When architected correctly, smart products yield proprietary primary customer data that can be used to drive low-risk product expansion. Like Tesla, your company can also offer insurance and other high-margin, competitively priced products that precisely fit each customer’s needs. Smart digital value creation for tech and software companies excerpt: Smart digital transformation can be applied to any company, but the type of company determines the specific tools needed for implementation. In this episode, Bruce discusses:
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Mon, 30 January 2023
Solo episode with Bruce Sinclair, the host of the show, discussing how to smart digital value creation can augment and improve these traditional value drivers. On boosting buy & build performance excerpt: Smart digital is a new lens from which to spot add-on companies and a new way to integrate their products with the platform. Unlike consolidating IT systems, orchestrating multiple products to work together produces not only a more innovative solution, but a less expensive one too. On market share expansion excerpt: This pricing optimization approach is based on pure customer data – clean and unbiased. By using APIs or sensors to understand how customers make money with their software or physical products, pricing becomes an analytical exercise that can stand up to the scrutiny of any skeptical CFO. This is true value pricing. In this episode, Bruce discusses:
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Tue, 17 January 2023
Our guest Prabhu Soundarrajan is President Elect of the International Society of Automation where he is responsible for strategy to create a better world through automation. He has over 20 years experience as tech executive in Fortune 100 and VC/PE-backed companies with various roles including business transformation. In this episode Prabhu and Bruce discuss:
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Tue, 10 January 2023
Solo episode with Bruce Sinclair, the host of the show, discussing how to improve pricing optimization and customer retention by gathering primary customer data with smart tech. On pricing optimization: Some companies use cost-plus pricing and others use competitive-based pricing, but the gold standard is value-based pricing. Since price is exchanged for value, to get the price right we need to understand how much value the product produces… which is easier said than done. Until recently, understanding what exactly the customer values and how much they value it is a qualitative research project at best. But now we have virtual products – native and virtualized. Software and tech products that can use APIs to gather the primary data needed to calculate produced value and smart products that can use sensors to gather the primary data needed to calculate produced value… On customer retention: As we all know, it’s far more profitable to keep a customer than to acquire a new one, whether that’s to sell them more of the same or new products or services. The absence of a direct relationship results in a loss of customer control and potentially a loss of customer without ever knowing why. Today selling a physical product doesn’t have to mean the end of the customer relationship. Smart products are connected to the internet and just like software, they are forever connected to the customer… In this episode, Bruce discusses:
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Wed, 14 December 2022
Solo episode with Bruce Sinclair, the host of the show, discussing the competitive advantage smart digital diligence provides the sponsor upfront in the deal cycle during the auction. At the heart of all post-acquisition value levers is understanding the company’s customers. The higher fidelity you have on who the customer is and what the customer does, the closer you’ll hit the mark with all you value levers, including revenue growth, pricing optimization, multiple expansion, debt paydown and informing your priorities on margin expansion and follow-on acquisitions. This is the purpose of smart tech, to gather and transform proprietary customer data, proprietary operational data and proprietary monetization data on your customers whether they use your product in the physical or virtual world. In this episode, Bruce discusses:
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Mon, 28 November 2022
Our guests are André Quina, sales director with Plat4mation, an experienced control and automation engineer and Greg McKenzie, a commercial lead with Plat4mation with 22 years of manufacturing operational experience in food, automotive, and plastics. André, Greg and Bruce discuss:
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Mon, 3 October 2022
Our guest Michel Morvan is cofounder of Cosmo Tech, a scientist, academic, entrepreneur and AI expert. Michel and Bruce discuss:
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Mon, 19 September 2022
Our guest Taha Memon is the founder and CEO of Dunia and CloudiTwins. He has over 10 years of experience as an entrepreneur, speaker and as a business development consultant to startups in Pakistan and the US. In this episode, Taha and Bruce discuss:
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Mon, 5 September 2022
Our guest Daniel Young is Senior Manager of Product Standards at Toshiba America and is part of Toshiba’s global Digital Innovation Team that is focused on accelerating the growth of Industrial IoT systems and developing best practices using industry standards. In this episode, Daniel and Bruce discuss:
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Mon, 29 August 2022
Solo episode with Bruce Sinclair, the host of the show, discussing the first step in smart digital diligence that’s used as a quick triage step before getting company specific to determine if a company is a good fit for smart digital transformation. Sector, business type, maturity level and market dynamics all play into this step. Once the theory is known, the Smart Tech Value Creation Quiz on the homepage of digitaloperatingpartners.com can be used to give any company a smart grade. In this episode, Bruce discusses:
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Fri, 29 April 2022
Solo episode with Bruce Sinclair, the host of the show, discussing how to unlock value and potentially disrupt industries with the five core data-driven business models within the Smart Business Model Continuum. Data-driven business models are created by transforming legacy business models with smart tech such as the internet of things and artificial intelligence. In this episode, Bruce discusses:
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Fri, 15 April 2022
Solo episode with Bruce Sinclair, the host of the show, discussing data-driven business model development and its fundamental importance in smart digital transformation. Bruce will discuss how the business models on the Smart Business Model Continuum reduce monetization friction and produce a proprietary competitive advantage. In this episode, Bruce discusses:
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Fri, 1 April 2022
Solo episode with Bruce Sinclair, the host of the show, discussing the confusion around what the term digital transformation means. Bruce will dissect the term into its three tech layers and relate each to the company stage where it creates the most value. In this episode, Bruce discusses:
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Fri, 18 March 2022
Our guest Manny Bernabe is the founder and CEO of bigplasma ai – which specializes in AI for Industry 4.0 applications and connected products. Manny has had roles ranging from data scientist at an AI unicorn start-up to investment analyst at a global financial services firm. In this episode, Manny and Bruce discuss:
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Fri, 4 March 2022
Our guest Bob Sharon is the Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Blue IoT. He is an entrepreneur with over 30 years experience in technology, sustainability and data centres, and is a subject matter expert in IoT and smart buildings. In this episode, Bob and Bruce discuss:
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Fri, 30 July 2021
Our guest David Westrom is responsible for global business development at MachineMetrics and has led business development organizations and driven strategy at three IIoT start-ups that experienced successful exits, including most recently ThingWorx, that was acquired by PTC. In this episode, Dave and Bruce discuss:
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Fri, 16 July 2021
Our guest Scott Cunningham is a blockchain and cryptocurrency enthusiast who explores the ways these technologies are used and shares his thoughts with his audience across many platforms. In this episode, Scott and Bruce discuss:
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Fri, 9 July 2021
Our guest Vipul Parekh is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Digital and Technology Services where he advises clients about investing in new and emerging technologies such as Blockchain, IoT, Robotic Process Automation, and Machine Learning. In this episode, Vipul and Bruce discuss:
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Fri, 2 July 2021
Our guests Rolland Donin and Hendrik Nieweg partner on digital transformation projects. Roland is the founder of IHRS-Training, a consultancy for agile methods and digital transformation, and Hendrik is VP of Solutions at the German IoT specialist, Device Insight, which helps companies with the development of complex IoT-based digital transformation projects. In this episode, Rolland, Hendrik and Bruce discuss:
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Fri, 25 June 2021
Our guest Dr. Michael Roshak works as an Enterprise Architect for Bankers Healthcare Group - a fintech company that helped hospitals and doctors with financial services during the pandemic. And as part of the Microsoft AI & IoT Insider Lab, Mike ran code-a-thons for Microsoft developers and from which recently wrote the book, Artificial Intelligence for IoT Cookbook. In this episode, Mike and Bruce discuss:
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Fri, 18 June 2021
Our guest Dean Rakic is the Chief Scientist at TAAL Distributed Information Technologies where he’s a Blockchain scientist. He has over 25 years of experience in computer science – predominantly in healthcare - and 10 years of experience in Blockchain within various technology solutions. In this episode, Dean and Bruce discuss:
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Fri, 11 June 2021
Our guests Raymond and Michael Volpatt are brothers and co-owners of Volpatt Construction, a commercial and institutional construction company based in Pittsburgh. They are also co-founders of ShareInTech, a construction workforce optimization, building management, and asset supervision company. In this episode, Ray, Mike and Bruce discuss:
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Fri, 28 May 2021
Our guest Joseph Aamidor is an experienced product leader and expert in smart buildings, real estate technology and facility operations. His company provides guidance to building owners, operators, and management firms. Before Aamidor Consulting, Joe worked for the Lucid Design Group and Johnson Controls. In this episode, Joe and Bruce discuss:
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Fri, 21 May 2021
Our guest David Wentzloff co-founded Everactive in 2012 and is currently its co-CTO. He is also a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Faculty Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan. In this episode, David and Bruce discuss:
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Fri, 14 May 2021
Our guest, Rohit Chauhan is the Founder & CEO at Topmist, a cloud-native real-time streaming data analytics firm. He has over 25 years of experience as a technology executive, data scientist, and business consultant with deep knowledge of industry processes and value drivers. In this episode, Rohit and Bruce discuss:
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Fri, 7 May 2021
Our guest, Steve Shwartz began his career as a postdoctoral researcher in AI at Yale University in 1979. He has since been a founder or co-founder of many companies and an investor in many others. Today he’s the author of a new book on AI called, Evil Robots, Killer Computers, and Other Myths. In this episode, Steve and Bruce discuss:
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Fri, 30 April 2021
Our guest, Ravi Venkatraman is the CEO and President of Hamiltonian Systems. A technologist and entrepreneur with 30 years of experience, Ravi’s latest focus has been solving complex business problems in data management and MRO supply chains using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. In this episode, Ravi and Bruce discuss:
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Fri, 23 April 2021
Our guest, John Burton is CEO and co-founder of UrsaLeo, a company focused on bringing modern UI to the industrial world. Previously John had a 30-year career in semiconductors and founded multiple companies. In this episode, John and Bruce discuss:
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Fri, 16 April 2021
Our guests, Robert Falzon, a financier, and Massimo Cesaro, a technologist, are two of the co-founders of Inkwell Data. They joined forces to bring to market their Altior IoT operating system which Massimo designed and developed. In this episode, Robert, Massimo and Bruce discuss:
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Fri, 9 April 2021
Our guest, Steve Latham is the founder and chief executive officer at Banyan Hills Technologies, a software company specializing in remote management and monitoring. Steve has been in tech for over 20 years and has extensive experience in cloud-based software and the Internet of Things. In this episode, Steve and Bruce discuss:
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Fri, 2 April 2021
Our guest, Scott Giordano, serves as Senior Counsel for Privacy & Compliance at Spirion, an advisor in rapid identification and protection of sensitive data - focused on multinational data protection and its intersection with technology. In this episode, Scott and Bruce discuss:
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Fri, 26 March 2021
Our guest, Peter Orban, is the founder of XR Solutions, a producer of immersive and wearable computing. Originally a Mad Man he traded his advertising career for another creative profession a decade ago – to be a startup founder and business developer. In this episode, Peter and Bruce discuss:
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Fri, 19 March 2021
Our guest, Paulo Lopes, is an experienced business development executive in the IoT industry and is currently a senior marketing manager at Haltian. Haltian is a Gartner Cool Vendor that provides global IoT solutions focused on smart offices specializing in the employee experience. In this episode Paulo and Bruce discuss:
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Fri, 12 March 2021
Our guest, Jurgo Praden, is CEO of Thinnect, and has two decades of experience as an IoT researcher, a CTO and now as a CEO. His previous company, Defendec, produced a wireless border patrol product that’s currently protecting over 30 countries. In this episode, Jurgo and Bruce discuss:
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Fri, 5 March 2021
Our guest, Loren Shade, is Vice President of Marketing at Allegro Software where he directs their IoT product and business strategy, backed by his 30+ years of experience working with embedded systems in the defense, medical, industrial and consumer sectors. In this episode Loren and Bruce discuss:
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Fri, 26 February 2021
Our guest, Tim Raven, is Managing Director and leads Worximity’s US practice. He is an operations, finance, and digital manufacturing expert with over 25 years of experience working with privately held and sponsor-owned mid-market consumer and industrial product manufacturers. In this episode Tim and Bruce discuss the first phase of transforming a factory into a smart factory: applying a sensor overlay network to pull data off brownfield machines and equipment. We then outline how to quantify the value created by relating the KPI of OEE (overall equipment effectiveness) to EBITDA, along with it’s associated costs to come up with the ROTI (return on technology investment) – core to the investment thesis. Then we tie it together with a smart food packaging plant case study. This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 19 February 2021
Listen to this trailer/overview with Bruce Sinclair to learn about the upcoming season of the podcast, now named, The Private Equity Digital Transformation Show. New episodes starting February 26. This talk show is about the next big thing in value creation. It is for fund managers and corporate leadership investigating digital transformation for their companies, and for service providers, subject matter experts and vendors wanting to broaden their digital skills. Although the show’s focused on value creation in the context of private equity, it’s sector agnostic and can get pretty geeky, digging into IoT, data science (analytics & AI) and other high technology. At a high level, the show is about how to frame the digital investment thesis and how to execute it. Season 1 of this show was produced for corporate leadership and more generally covered the tech, business and strategy of digital transformation through the lens of IoT – the foundation of all high-tech digital transformations. Season 2 of this show expands its audience to include private capital investors and considers digital transformation from a more disciplined value creation and investment perspective. Season 2 can be considered as an application of season 1 for private equity, while continuing to be useful to corporate leadership. This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 19 February 2021
The “IoT Platform” is such an overloaded term that its meaning has been lost. Chipset manufacturers, sensor manufacturers, software vendors, consortia and system integrators all have their own definitions. But if you come at it from enough angles eventually a form takes shape and you realize it means what you want it to mean and what is important is not its definition but the context in which it’s used. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, Dr. Sean Lorenz and I go through the elusive IoT platform and why the business problem is always the place to start. Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: https://www.iot-inc.com/amorphous-iot-platform-definition-podcast/ This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 12 February 2021
After going through each of the major consortia, we are heading back to tech, but not as deep a dive as usual. Having left the edge behind, we are now moving on to the network fabric that holds everything together. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, we talk about some of the most important issues surrounding IoT Platforms today. Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: https://www.iot-inc.com/iot-platform-security-sensors-analytics-podcast/ This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 5 February 2021
How much IoT data should you keep? It’s not clear. The more data you keep, the more data transmission and storage costs you’ll incur. However thinning out your data store means throwing away potential future insights, potential answers to future questions and potential new information products to expand your business – all value generators unique to IoT products. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with Steve Stover about balancing the costs and the technology approaches to maximize your Internet of Things data value. Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: https://www.iot-inc.com/iot-big-data-management-storage-podcast/ This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 29 January 2021
The technology of the software-defined product, containing the digital twin, is the most important technology in IoT – the most important because it’s directly related to creating value. Sometimes it can get a bit confusing so in this episode of the IoT Business Show, I share with you three lessons from the ICIP Technology course. The first, a simple example to demonstrate the software-defined product and digital twin. Then, an overview lesson on standards and protocols, and finally an overview lesson on IoT analytics and big data. Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast97notes Listen to this trailer with Bruce Sinclair to learn about the upcoming season of the podcast, now named, The Private Equity Digital Transformation Show. New episodes starting February 26. This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 22 January 2021
OK, I admit it, this is going to be a bit of a geekfest but application protocols are an important topic to understand if you want to understand how IoT works. Protocols are the lifeblood of an IoT system and as we are about to find out, there are a few different types to choose from – each with their own characteristics and infrastructure requirements. Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: https://www.iot-inc.com/top-5-internet-of-things-application-protocols-podcast/ This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 15 January 2021
Meet IoT’s three layers of protocols… the media layer, otherwise known as the physical layer or radio, the network layer and the application layer. Important because they make up the network stack that transports data from the sensor to the cloud. Important because they are standardized. In this episode of the IoT Business show, Michael Richardson delivers a masterclass on everything you need to know about IoT’s three networking layers. Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: https://www.iot-inc.com/internet-of-things-protocols-like-lego-podcast/ This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 8 January 2021
There’s no denying it, robots are cool, even more cool when you call them cyber-physical systems, which is what they are, but they’re also IoT systems. And applying the thinking of IoT to robots makes them even cooler and more valuable because instead of being discrete systems, they can be integrated as a component of an IoT environment, working together with other components, to deliver outcomes. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with Chris Jones of iRobot about the Roomba and its place in the IoT world. Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast81notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 25 December 2020
Bruce Sinclair narrates the introduction chapter of his book, IoT Inc: How Your Company Can Use the Internet of Things to Win in the Outcome Economy. The book has 16 chapters plus a preface, the introduction chapter I read here and a conclusion chapter. If you want an overview of the 16 chapters, listen to the bonus episode two podcast episodes back. Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast83notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 18 December 2020
In broad strokes, the software required for an IoT deployment can be grouped into four classes: embedded software for sensors and gateways, networking or the IoT platform (communication, rules and sometimes interpretation) data management & analytics and of course the IoT application. In this episode of the IoT Inc Business Show, I discuss the first class, embedded software for sensors, or more specifically, sensor operating systems, with Zach Shelby and the inevitable evolution of these disparate classes into an IoT software ecosystem. Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: https://www.iot-inc.com/iot-embedded-systems-to-software-ecosystems-podcast/ This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 11 December 2020
In part 1 we discussed the sensor selection process and the costs involved. If you haven’t listened to the last episode, you should but it’s not a prerequisite. In part 2 of my interview with Scott Nelson, we finish talking sensor costs and move into sensor security, the untold risks when incorporating sensors and the expected evolutionary path sensor tech will take. Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: https://www.iot-inc.com/internet-of-things-sensors-inside-out-part-2-podcast/ This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 4 December 2020
No matter how we define sensor, we are a long way from a plug and play world. Except for the most rudimentary forms of sensing, you must be prepared to go custom-built. And if that’s the case you must have an understanding of the connected sensor and the build-buy decision. These two paths are different business journeys with different costs to consider. In this episode of the IoT Inc Business Show, I discuss this with Scott Nelson who takes us on a deep dive into the connected sensor to understand the economics involved and the questions to ask during the sensor definition stage. Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: https://www.iot-inc.com/internet-of-things-sensors-inside-out-part-1-podcast/ This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 27 November 2020
Sensors from the M2M world are evolving into connected sensors for IoT. Same sensor tech but now the sensor needs to communicate outside of a local and often proprietary network. Goodbye, 35-year-old Modbus, used in SCADA of yesteryear and hello layered communication, needed in the Internet of Things to onboard billions of sensors. In this episode of the IoT Inc Business Show, Mike Fahrion explains not only the anatomy of today’s connected sensor but also why we’re moving to a layered communication stack. Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: https://www.iot-inc.com/scaling-connected-sensor-solutions-iot-podcast/ This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 20 November 2020
It takes a lot of work, behind the scenes work, to establish a successful connection between sensor and IoT Platform. While it’s possible to find off-the-shelf sensor subsystems for common use-cases, often, custom hardware and software design is needed to make the system/connected product/asset operate as desired. In this episode of the IoT Inc Business Show, I get into it with Mark Wright about the who and the what behind the scenes that need to be involved to make it happen. Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: https://www.iot-inc.com/unraveling-iot-sensors-actuators-podcast/ This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 13 November 2020
Want to connect your product to the Internet of Things? The first step is giving it senses and then connectivity to the Internet of Things. In this episode of the IoT Inc Business Show, I speak with Adam Justice, a second generation sensors guy who takes us through the two main approaches to get your products, assets or environment on to the next generation Interweb, known as the Internet of Things. Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: https://www.iot-inc.com/retrofitting-connected-sensors-iot-products-podcast/ This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 6 November 2020
I have to admit, when the first real deployments of LPWA or Low Power Wide Area Networks were being lit up, I wasn’t all that bullish on the competition: Mobile Operators in IoT. Wrong tech with the wrong business model… Or so I thought. Fast forward a couple of years to today and those behemoths are getting their acts together. In this episode of the IoT Inc Business Show, I speak with Patrice Slupowski about the Mobile Operator approach to IoT and I have to admit… I’m impressed. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast119notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 30 October 2020
There are five main IoT alliances/consortiums/groups focused on the Internet of Things and I interview them all. The Internet Protocol for Smart Object (IPSO) Alliance – episode E3 has been around for a while but the Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) – episode 9, the Thread group, the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and the Allseen Alliance have sprung up recently. Depending on your focus, one or more of these organizations and are worth looking into when starting your IoT journey. In this episode of the IoT Inc Business Show, I discuss the third organization, the Thread Group, with Skip Ashton. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: https://www.iot-inc.com/introducing-thread-group-iot-protocol-podcast/ This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 23 October 2020
It’s a symbiotic relationship – the big corporation, in search for that innovative edge, and the small startup, in search for supportto get their ideas off the ground. Both have what the other needs –desperately. Coming together they form one type of ecosystem. To be players, all IoT companies – big and small – must be part of one ormore ecosystem. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with the folks at TechrIot about their approach of bringing IoT companies together. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://www.iot-inc.com/accelerator-as-first-internet-of-things-ecosystem-podcast/ This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 16 October 2020
As the technology of IoT evolves the concept of a distributed computing environment is becoming increasingly relevant. A key component of this architecture is fog computing, blending the cloud to the edge. Being able to access computing, networking and storage resources locally makes sense for many classes of IoT deployments. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with the bigwigs of the newly formed, OpenFog Consortium. Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcript: http://www.iot-inc.com/iot-fog-along-the-horizon-podcast/ This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 9 October 2020
By definition, an ecosystem brings together multiple products in order to deliver an outcome. However, today’s IoT standards don’t go far enough enable different products to work together. Another layer is needed to ensure ecosystem products speak the same language. In this episode of the IoT business show, I speak with David McCall about the Open Connectivity Foundation and the codebase they provide to enable smart home products from different vendors to talk to each other – exactly what you need for any ecosystem Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast112notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 2 October 2020
I don’t want to be accused of being a hammer but if you think about it, IoT is the tech behind digital transformation. If your definition of IoT doesn’t include data science like mine does, then the technologies at hand are IoT and analytics and AI. Industrie four-zero addresses this tech as well as the political, environmental, corporate and academic issues that pave the way. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with Henning Banthien about the unique and effective approach Plattform Industrie 4.0 takes in digitally transforming the discrete manufacturing industry. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast113notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 25 September 2020
No one company is big enough to provide an end-to-end industrial Internet of Things solution. Realizing this the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) was founded to bring together different solutions from different vendors to address different use cases. The end game, however, is not technology, but business – to understand what is needed to put together solutions that not only work well but sell well. I’m a big believer in ecosystems so, in this episode of the IoT Inc Business Show, I discuss the IIC with Stephen Mellor to see if this consortium is right for you. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast111notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 18 September 2020
Listen to this analysis episode with Bruce Sinclair where he analyses the latest IoT news from a business perspective. In this episode, Bruce tees off from the Apple CareKit announcement to discuss why ecosystems are so important and how they differ from IoT platforms. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTpodcast47notes Listen to this analysis episode with Bruce Sinclair where he discusses the issues of pricing smart products and new business models that can help. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast55notes/ This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 11 September 2020
Over the years now, I’ve been involved in the development of tens of IoT initiatives with my clients and there is only one thing they all have in common… Every one of them pivoted. And I don’t mean little pivots, I mean 180-degree pivots. The lesson here is to pivot fast and pivot early otherwise there’s a good chance you’re not going to make it out of Pilot Purgatory. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with Phil Regenie about his early pivot and the lessons learn in taking his Senior care product to the pilot stage. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast102notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 4 September 2020
There’s all kinds of opinions about where the value is in IoT. Well, a group that put their money where their mouths are, are investors. This is a panel discussion where I interview two VCs with similar goals but different approaches. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with Upal Basu and Jesse DeMesa about what they look for when making an Internet of Things investment. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast78notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 28 August 2020
Listen to this episode which is a recording of the panel discussion, Show Me the Money – Creating Value from Connecting Things at KNect365’s Smart Home Summit 2016. Bruce Sinclair is the moderator and the panelists are Bob Wudeck from ilumi, Gene Han from Target, Upal Basu from Nokia Growth Partners and Jean-Pierre Abello from Nielsen. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast70notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 21 August 2020
It’s no secret that the IIoT is enabling manufacturing to go through its next revolution. Some call it Industrie 4.0, but it goes further than the shop floor. The Industrial Internet (of Things) is virtualizing the entire manufacturing industry from supply chain to factory to distribution and along the way is having a profound effect on the workforce and the equipment used. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with Tanja Rueckert about the hot topics of connected manufacturing and asset intelligence. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast64notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 14 August 2020
Listen to this analysis episode with Bruce Sinclair where he discusses the issues of pricing smart products and new business models that can help. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast55notes/ This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 7 August 2020
IoT consumer products are more expensive than their traditional counterparts, often by an order of magnitude. Not good but makes sense – the tech needs to be financed. But however innovative the products are, higher pricing will cause a headwind. Part of the problem is consumer IoT products are still being sold with traditional product business models. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with Nate Williams about the opportunity to innovate consumer IoT business models. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://www.iot-inc.com/new-business-models-in-consumer-iot-still-solidifying-podcast This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 31 July 2020
Schneider has seen the IoT light and they are following it at scale. Step 1, make all products connected. Step 2, develop a platform, in this case, for the energy management and automation vertical. Step 3, create more customer value by moving from products to products and services to ultimately driving customer results. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with Prith Banerjee about the IoT playbook to be followed by all leading-edge enterprises, big and small. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTpodcast46notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 24 July 2020
The smart home or connected home makes life good. Comfortable. Reminiscent of the Jetson’s in many ways. But business models aside, today’s big question, at least for me, is if it really is a DIY (do it yourself) market as it’s currently being betrayed. Not so easy to install. Not so easy to repair, so is it better to be handled by the professionals (installers, integrators, service providers)? You can paint your house but do you want to when professionals can be hired? Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast59notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 17 July 2020
If your company is collecting data, and every IoT company collects data, it needs a formal “Information SecurityProgram”. We’ve talked risk assessment in the past, that is the process of assigning liability to each potential security breach, but that’s only part of the program. In this episode of the IoT business Show, I speak with John Ansbach about the rest of the“Information Security Program”, impending regulation and privacy concerns. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTpodcast44notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 10 July 2020
The business counterpart to IoT security risk, loosely defined as probability times liability. The current narrative around liability is centered on privacy but it turns out that laws, regulations, and cybersecurity, in general, are some of the other elements in the IoT liability matrix. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with Mark Radcliffe about the current IoT legal framework and the potential liabilities to address early on in the IoT product development cycle. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTpodcast42notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 3 July 2020
Lose five pounds of belly fat in five days! Sound too good to be true? Yeah, it probably is and because of that, you would expect the FTC to be all over it. But instead of weight loss products, what about IoT products? What’s fair? What’s deceptive? In this episode of the IoT show, I speak with Jared Ho about the FTC’s role in IoT and some guidelines to help your company navigate through the gray. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast77notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 26 June 2020
Security and privacy are uttered together so often that many believe they’re the same thing. They’re not. Security is a technical issue and privacy is a business issue, and furthermore, privacy is only one type of liability that should be considered when talking IoT security. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I add a bit of sharpness to the security and privacy narrative. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast76notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 19 June 2020
What’s the legal definition of a product? Does it cover IoT and is IoT classified a product or a service? Given our laws were never designed for the types of products being sold today, it’s not surprising that there are different interpretations of our current laws and regulations when it comes to IoT. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with Ron Quirk and Alex Schneider about the legal limbo we’re in and how the legal landscape is evolving to catch up with the times. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast75notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 12 June 2020
When we buy an IoT Product for our home or our business, the advice is the same: read the fine print. There are plenty of technical obstacles that can be thrown in your way to stop you from having complete control over your data but sometimes the devil is in the details and these contractual details can have a major effect on your business. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with Johannes Ernst about the IoT Overloads and the upcoming data showdown. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast72notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 5 June 2020
Repeat this mantra: Privacy by Design, Privacy by Design. Although, Security by Design is a best practice followed by IoT companies in the know, its business counterpart, related to risk, isn’t chanted nearly as often as it should be. Privacy by Design should be repeated with every second breath. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with Paul Plofchan about Privacy by Design and other privacy best practices. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: https://www.iot-inc.com/privacy-by-design-in-the-internet-of-things-podcast/ This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 29 May 2020
Although an integral part of IoT security, IoT privacy doesn’t rely on technology. It relies instead on self-imposed business rules that govern the way the collected data is used within and outside of the enterprise. As with many things tech, government and law is unable to keep up with the innovation of IoT and with what some call its digital exhaust. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with privacy expert Dale Smith about the top 5 best practices in handling personally identifiable information (PII) and other IoT privacy issues. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTpodcast31notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 24 April 2020
Before talking go to market strategy, we need to talk, go to green light strategy. For most people, internal or external, IoT is a big unknown and unknowns are scary. To get thatIoT pilot started, think small and evolutionary. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with Michael Minkevich about his experience in building IoT products and systems and the best way to get them greenlit. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTpodcast39notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 17 April 2020
Alright, let’s talk building an IoT product or system. Time to cycle through concept – ideation – proof of concept– prototype – MVP – product. In this episode of the IoT BusinessShow, part two of two, I speak again with Yuriy Pryadko who shares his experience in the 6-step journey to manufacturing or deployment. In part 2 we get into plenty of details and the numbers, using a fun but useful product example, this time in the consumer IoT space. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTpodcast38notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 10 April 2020
Alright, let’s talk building an IoT product or system. Time to cycle through concept – ideation – proof of concept– prototype – MVP – product. In this episode of the IoT BusinessShow, part one of two, I speak with Yuriy Pryadko who shares practical advice on the 6-step journey to manufacturing or deployment. In part one we lay the foundation using an interesting example of an IoT system in the Fitness space, prepping us for episode 2 where we quantify the process. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTpodcast37notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 3 April 2020
Ripping out an existing SCADA system and replacing it with an IoT deployment isn’t going to happen any time soon. Whether it’s an oil pipeline or a water processing plant, the job of the OT guys is to keep things flowin’. Although the writing is on the wall, it’s going to take a lot more than the promise of information nirvana to change existing infrastructure. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with System Integrator Joel Hutton about his experience in applying the thin edge of the wedge to get an IoT pilot going with his clients. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTpodcast36notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 27 March 2020
It’s one thing to be in a kickstarter–fueled startup developing your IoT product and quite another to be doing it within a structured corporate environment. Things get in the way. Priorities, personalities, politics, and executive management. The same work needs to be done but other considerations need to be taken into account. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with Jake Fields about his experience in working with IoT teams within the enterprise environment and the development steps to take to successfully make it through to the other side.. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTpodcast35notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 20 March 2020
Because of the technology and data available, the biggest and most interesting challenge in designing an IoT product is to make it feel more like a service or experience than a piece of hardware. Only after you understand the customer and what the opportunities really are can product design begin. In this episode of the IoT Business show, I speak with Gordon Hui to get an uber designer’s perspective on how to find that ideal product experience and the business that must be developed to support it. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at:http://www.iot-inc.com/internet-of-things-podcast-17 This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 13 March 2020
When starting down the path toward your IoT product, it’s tempting to jump into the tech and get started with your PoC… but don’t fall into that trap. Of course, there are benefits to getting the minimally viable product out the door but these benefits don’t go away if you back up first and start with a business strategy and defined user experience – in fact, they’re accelerated when you have a clear path from the start. In this episode of the IoT Business show, I speak with Erik Ljung about the importance of starting at the top when beginning your product design process. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: https://www.iot-inc.com/top-down-internet-of-things-design-podcast/ This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 6 March 2020
Getting an IoT project off the ground isn’t easy. It’s not just about launching a new product based on new technology, it’s the changes the organization must make to reach escape velocity. In this episode of the IoT Business show, I speak with Asaf Sadowski about the importance of creating an IoT proof of concept and the steps involved to get there. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://www.iot-inc.com/internet-of-things-podcast-15 This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 28 February 2020
Okay, our blockchain discussion isn’t quite over yet. Let me ask the question again, is blockchain ready to transact IoT business? The answer is still a resounding “no” but let me caveat it by saying, there are newer technologies that address blockchain’s bottlenecks and deployment weaknesses. Introducing alternative DLTs – distributed ledger technologies. In this episode of the IoT business show, I speak with Ashish Mehta about the options available for those who want to incorporate blockchain-like functionality into IoT today. Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast96notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 21 February 2020
Is blockchain ready to transact IoT business? That’s the question I’ve been trying to answer during this mini-series. While the quest has been intellectually interesting and frustrating at the same time, the answer is a resounding “no.” Although the tech is cool, blockchain is nowhere near ready to be used for business within the budgetable future. In this episode of the IoT business show, I speak with Rhian Lewis about the promise and challenges of transacting with blockchain, Ethereum, and cryptocurrencies in IoT. Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast95notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 14 February 2020
Want to incorporate blockchain into IoT? Well, that’s a pretty tall order but you have two ways to go about it. Go it alone to build the world’s best IoT blockchain protocol and hope it’s adopted or join others that have similar goals to build the world’s best IoT blockchain protocol in hopes that it’s adopted. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with Zaki Manian about the technology and business advantages of blockchain in IoT and the approach the Trusted IoT Alliance is taking to make them a reality. Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast93notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 7 February 2020
We all know, whether from experience or just intuitively, that bolting security on an IoT product after much of the development has been completed is a total rookie mistake and a recipe for disaster. Yet this still happens. By crowdfunded startups who don’t mention security in their videos, to internal teams in larger enterprises who also emphasize the bling in order to get their project greenlit from within. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with Chris Romeo about the Security Development Lifecycle, the polar opposite to the bolt-on, that’s been successfully used in IT security for years. Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast63notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 31 January 2020
Blockchain. One of the few technologies more hyped than IoT. Put them together and it’s a hypefest. But is it warranted? Honestly, I don’t know but I can tell you, for me, the decision is not going to be based on if it’s cool tech, it’s going to be based on, if that cool tech contributes to making more money. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with Jessica Groopman about what blockchain is and how it fits into the Internet of Things. Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast92notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 24 January 2020
Black hat, white hat… gray hat? What does it all mean? In this context, the different colored hats refer to the different approaches to testing the cyber security of your IT, or in our case, IoT infrastructure. In this episode of the IoT Show, I speak with Paul Jauregui about pen testing and other things you need to know about when working with an external security assessment firm. Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast56notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 17 January 2020
The more I dig into it, the more I’m convinced that privacy is a bigger issue than security in IoT. Don’t get me wrong, the challenges facing IoT security are huge and in many cases, unchartered but, we’ll figure them out. Why? Because we’re good at figuring out tech. What’s going to be more challenging is teasing out the rules of engagement from the tangled web of IoT privacy. This involves people, companies, special interests, and the law – much more difficult and with huge business implications. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with privacy philosopher Justin Klein Keane about the challenges we face and some mental frameworks in which to consider them. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTpodcast33notesnotes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 10 January 2020
We speak about our offensive game so much that we forget that we need good defense in business too, that is, effectively protecting the value we create. However, and I speak from experience, the shiny new things seem so much more important than the seemingly dull security and privacy. Well, when looked at from a risk perspective, security and privacy all of a sudden become the purview of the manager. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with Paul Dant about IoT risk assessment as well as security by design, threat modeling and other important topics to the manager. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTpodcast32notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 3 January 2020
It’s difficult enough to manage network security or web security or application security or mobile security but when they all come together you have the Frankenstein-like monster called IoT security. And when they all come together you have the unique challenges of security system security too – welcome to IoT. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with Daniel Miessler about the top security risks facing IoT and how to mitigate them. This is part two of a two-part interview.. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTpodcast30notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 27 December 2019
It’s difficult enough to manage network security or web security or application security or mobile security but when they all come together you have the Frankenstein-like monster called IoT security. And when they all come together you have the unique challenges of security system security too – welcome to IoT. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with Daniel Miessler about the top security risks facing IoT and how to mitigate them. This is part one of a two-part interview.. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://bit.ly/IoTpodcast29notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 20 December 2019
Building an IoT product line isn’t just for the big guys. Small and medium-sized manufacturers can transform their business into Internet of Things powerhouses by following the same IoT playbook – albeit on a smaller scale. In this episode of the IoT Business Show, I speak with Christian Shaffer about the steps his 20-person company took to unlock $2 million in recurring revenue. Read the rest of the show analysis notes at: http://www.iot-inc.com/sme-how-to-develop-an-iot-business-around-data-podcast/ This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 13 December 2019
AI today is getting better at learning. In fact, learning is what differentiates what we call AI from advanced analytics. Machine learning algorithms minimize an error function by autonomously and iteratively adjusting their model variables. But what’s next for AI and machine learning? In this episode of the IoT business show, I speak with James Canton, who in a meta way makes predictions about this prediction technology. Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast110notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 6 December 2019
Convoluted Neural Networks or CNNs are a type of AI typically used in computer vision to process images, but they are also applicable to process the time series data we typically get from sensors in IoT. In this episode of the IoT show, I speak with Simon Crosby about how these CNNs can be used to make predictions about the future and reduce the massive amounts of data we collect to just the important stuff. Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast109notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 29 November 2019
AI and in particular, deep learning, is a powerful tool for uncovering useful relationships within data; but once found, can’t explain what they mean. Contrast this with humans, armed with tribal knowledge and more traditional analytics, who understand the data relationships but just can’t find as many of them. In this episode of the IoT show, I speak with Drew Conway about how to find the balance between man and machine when looking for data value. Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast108notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
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Fri, 22 November 2019
If you’re like me, before I started digging into AI, it all seemed so mysterious. Not only how it worked but also how it was put to work. But when thought of as a subset of analytics things come into focus - fast. In this episode of the IoT show, I speak with Curtis Seare about the tools and frameworks used to incorporate AI into IoT projects. Read the rest of the show analysis notes including the transcripts at: http://bit.ly/IoTPodcast107notes This show is brought to you by DIGITAL OPERATING PARTNERS Related links you may find useful:
Direct download: new_internet_of_things_business_podcast_order52.mp3
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