Tag: technology

AI infrastructure investments are moving faster than most organizations can manage. Platforms are fragmenting. Vendors are pivoting. Regulatory requirements are tightening. For mid-market companies, a wrong bet is not just expensive. It is a setback there is no easy budget to recover from. This post introduces a practical framework for future-proofing your AI infrastructure: a continuous lifecycle management strategy that helps CEOs, COOs, and CAIOs protect their investments, maximize flexibility, and manage change deliberately. Includes a self-assessment diagnostic and five action steps you can apply before your next AI investment decision.
Artificial Intelligence, Best Practices, Executive Overviews, Innovation Management, Management, Strategy

Future-proofing your AI Infrastructure

AI infrastructure investments are moving faster than most organizations can manage. Platforms are fragmenting. Vendors are pivoting. Regulatory requirements are tightening. For mid-market companies, a wrong bet is not just expensive. It is a setback there is no easy budget to recover from.

This post introduces a practical framework for future-proofing your AI infrastructure: a continuous lifecycle management strategy that helps CEOs, COOs, and CAIOs protect their investments, maximize flexibility, and manage change deliberately. Includes a self-assessment diagnostic and five action steps you can apply before your next AI investment decision.

IoT build, buy, partner
Artificial Intelligence, Best Practices, Execution, Product Management, Strategy

The AI Build–Buy–Partner Decision: A Strategic Framework for Executives

AI enables organizations to transform their operations, enhance responsiveness, resilience and facilitate customer experience. While the decision to adopt AI is straightforward, organizations are faced with a “build, buy, partner” decision – build it themselves, buy and integrate technology, or partner with another organization to co-develop it together.

This article discusses some of the key management considerations involved in making a decision.

5 IoT Lessons Learned from dot-com mistakes
Best Practices, Execution, Internet of Things, Strategy

Five “dot com” mistakes that IoT companies must avoid

We are in a modern day gold rush, sparked by the Internet of Things (IoT). Thousands of companies, new and established, are planning “smart” solutions.

Amid all this, what IoT lessons learned from the past can today’s IoT companies apply to avoid mistakes of previous “gold rushes”? Are we smarter now, or are we making the same mistakes? The answer is yes and yes. This articles identifies five major mistakes made by dot-companies and five Iearnings for today’s IoT companies.

Best Practices, Execution, FAQs, go-to-market, Innovation Management, Internet of Things, Partnerships, Product Management, sales, Strategy

The secrets to successful partnerships in the fast changing IoT market – Part 1

Today’s IoT market is very dynamic, continuously evolving, and fragmented. No single vendor has a connected IoT stack. Partnerships are a critical business capability that IoT vendors must develop in order to be relevant in this type of marketplace. This post, the first of two parts, describes the basic partnership types, the relationship models and key engagement scope parameters.

IoT channels
Best Practices, go-to-market, Internet of Things, Product Management, product-market fit, sales

Building IoT solutions? Don’t forget about the channel!

Internet of Things (IoT) solutions offer tremendous and disruptive value for customers, but sometimes have the unintended effect of adversely impacting the channel that it is sold and serviced through. This results in slow adoption of IoT solutions, even if those solutions have significant and tangible customer value. This post highlights the two common product-market fit mistakes, and lists four best practices to facilitate channel adoption of innovative IoT solutions.

5 types of innovation
FAQs, Innovation Management, Strategy

Innovation is not just about technology – the five types of innovation all managers must know

Recently, I met with key executives from an industry trade group to discuss disruptive innovation in Silicon Valley.

One key concept I shared with them is that although many people equate innovation with technology, there are actually five types of innovation and that some or all may occur at the same time.

This post describes the five types of innovation, and provides managers with three takeaways to guide their innovation strategy.