The Year of IT and OT
We should be so beyond talk of The IT/OT convergence. This has not been a technology issue for years. If anything it is an organization and personal issue. Executives continue to view their organizations as constructed of a variety of separate domains. This is often...
Fill Your Mind Intentionally This Year
You become what you think about. (Ancient Wisdom from many traditions.) We begin a new year leaving behind a tumultuous one. If you were a news junkie, your mind must be close to mush. I don't recommend New Year's Resolutions or any of a variety of goals. Better is to...
Make Healthy Habits
Go ahead, admit it. You've already started your list of New Year's Resolutions. You know you will forget them by January 15. I'm preparing for a jump in attendance in my Yoga class next week. Of course, by the end of January attendance will be pretty much where it has...
Podcast 182 Companies on the Move Winners and Losers
Another Podcast. Sponsored by Ignition from Inductive Automation and the 23rd Industry Forum from ARC Advisory Group. (See banners.) Stuff happening. Siemens (cyber security, growing digitally). Emerson (growing and acquisitions). GE (divesting Digital). ABB...
Chronic or Crisis
I highly recommend putting Seth Godin on your radar—both his blog and his podcast. He always makes you rethink your assumptions. He discusses problems—crisis versus chronic in this blog post. We all live to the crisis. Pumps go down. Motor bearings freeze. Valves...
Inductive Automation Grows Integrator Partners
I am always interested in how companies go to market. I’ve had several years experience in product development and marketing trying to figure that all out. Inductive Automation is an interesting case study. It began life with an innovative cost structure and then went...
Contest for Senior Chemical Engineering Students
Quick, time is running out for this cool contest. AVEVA, a global leader in engineering and industrial software, is for the first time inviting senior year chemical engineering students in North America to enter a competition with industrial process simulation...
Industrial Internet Consortium And OpenFoG Consortium Join Forces
Consolidation is not only a corporate phenomenon these days. It has hit the non-profit technology development sector, too. One situation, not sure if this one is the case but it’s a common thing, is that companies join many of these consortia. Resource commitment...
ABB Next Company Refocusing Energies
There must be something in the air that makes the end of 2018 restructuring time. ABB has announced it is “shaping a leader focused in digital industries.” In other words, it is focusing its portfolio of businesses on digital industries through divestment of Power...
Unable to Sell It, GE Spins Off GE Digital
Remember the TV ads where the recent college graduate gets a job with GE? He then must explain to his parents that it is not an old-line dirty industrial company but a hip software company. Send those ads to the never, never land of wherever bits go when they are...
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