Podcast 206 Innovate To Win Business
I have published a podcast, Number 206--OEMs How To Innovate To Win More Business. I've found in many discussions with special machine builders, custom manufacturers, and even systems integrators that they may have given up too easily in pursuit of a contract. I have...
Consulting Firm Makes Open Source Acquisition
In brief: Arthur D. Little acquires Cutter Consortium and Presans to expand open consulting capabilities Arthur D. Little (ADL) today announced the acquisitions of Cutter Consortium, a business technology research company based in the US, and Presans, a leading...
Entrepreneurship: Building the Amazon of Africa
PR people often send me review copies of new books. In this case, I received an invitation from the author. I just finished Chasing Black Unicorns: How building the Amazon of Africa put me on Interpol’s Most Wanted List by Marek Zmyslowski...
Supporting Deployment of Private Wireless Edge, 4G and 5G Networks
I am not a 5G specialist, nor even attempting to be one. But in my interviewing thus far, I see that there are many attributes to the technology beyond your mobile phone. I’ve already talked with at least one CEO about private networks for industrial applications....
Hitachi Vantara Expands Digital Manufacturing Portfolio
Many companies emphasize their response to the current Covid-19 pandemic and some leave behind the core announcements or benefits. This announcement (and a interview and webinar) from Hitachi Vantara, the digital infrastructure and solutions subsidiary of Hitachi,...
Unified View of Data Center Operations
Schneider Electric’s roots are in electrical power. Known in the US through its acquisitions of Square D and APC, which were well known brands in building and IT power respectively. Of course it picked up Modicon a long time ago and more recently Foxboro on the...
Practice the Art of Possibility
The elderly Mr. Withers leaned over me and whispered, “What? You’ve been practicing it for three minutes, and you still can’t play it?” (Ben Zander’s early cello teacher to the young Benjamin.) I just finished a couple of good books last week. This quote was from...
EdgeX Foundry Hits Milestone Downloads and Simplified Deployment
I have followed the Development of EdgeX Foundry since right after its inception talking with many of the founders at Hannover Messe three years ago. That’s when Dell (now Dell EMC) was developing an IoT and Edge Computing group—since disbanded. Dell was leading the...
A Different Take on Industrial Cybersecurity
Not too long ago, I received an email from noted cybersecurity guru Eric Byres who told me he was back in the industry after a brief hiatus as an advisor to Verve Industrial. The company didn't register with me, and I went on to other things. This week I received a...
Pandemic Becoming a Trigger for Certain Enterprises to Accelerate Transformation
We only need look out the window to understand that the current situation with keeping people apart to prevent the spread of COVID-19 has slowed commerce and manufacturing to a crawl. Wind River surveyed a set of executives in China and the US to see what they think...
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