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Hospitals are seeking new ways to improve their productivity and efficiency, while reducing operational costs and improving margins. The speed and scale at which medical device and equipment manufacturers are integrating automation and data analytics into healthcare systems is staggering.

New private networks (wireless, 5G, LTE, CBRS) promise growth for business and disruption for the traditional wireless carrier model.

Where is real-time, mission-critical networking heading? We believe it’s heading to many more places than most people imagine.

Each groundbreaking new technology is built on the combination of other innovations. Is Web3 the innovation changing society as we know it?

With the announcement of the break-up of the General Electric company, the era of diversified industrial enterprises appears to finally be coming to its end.

Good Characters are not found through amusing books or in the sterling silver screen only.

Open source software innovations have fundamentally changed software development and realization for enterprises around the world.

As the physical world continues to dovetail with machine learning and artificial intelligence, Smart Systems will enable previously unimagined capabilities for both the B2B and B2C worlds.

Sensors, robots and drones are transforming the agriculture industry. Can data help farming become more sustainable?

“Business as usual” is no longer enough to successfully grow and innovate. OEMs now need to approach venture growth with a creative combination of “build, buy and partner.”

For OEMs, software growth strategy is more complicated than the question of, “Build, buy or partner?” Instead, they should look at a combination of all three.

The keys to unlocking Smart Home ecosystems and catalyzing adoption lie in better alliances, open data and innovative revenue models.

Connected vehicle OEMs need a partner ecosystem of “strange bedfellows” to become the data orchestrators of connected car innovation.

Non-interoperable systems and monolithic control are over.

Learn how innovations improve when tech mimics nature, including the “wood wide web,” shark skin swimsuits and much more.

Smart cities and open data in a post-platform world.

AI’s value has moved but those seeking it haven’t caught on.

Real-time connectivity and innovative services will rule the 21st century.

More data and coverage are satellite’s future direction.

Smart Buildings/Grids need interoperable systems.

The new business model of Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings.

AI diagnostic tools are changing healthcare.

Consumer-configurable data privacy is coming.

Innovators are moving to enable future energy systems.

How can you turn customers into innovation partners?

The smartphone will soon be replaced by AR-enabled smart glasses.

In the game of IIoT, relayr is stealing third base with the business model innovation of sharing risk with its customers.

Neutroon’s NaaS Platform Breaks Carriers’ Lock on 5G.

New data tools will provide IoT’s “holy grail.”

From Hannover Fair, new rules for industrial software.

SkyFoundry: Open standards and distributed computing are necessities for a rational technological future.

Visionary OEMs must become orchestrators of data ecosystems.

EV charging stations are the bridge between utility power distribution and electric vehicle power consumption.

The adoption of digital twins has been hampered by the absence of an open-source “digital fabric” for integrating connected devices and their data.

Thanks to COVID-19, supply chains have become more complex and cold chains have become increasingly critical.

Data is driving an autonomous economy.

Ready or not, we are hurtling into distributed systems and intelligence.

Privacy is now vying with latency and real-time requirements as the main driver of edge computing.

The IoT needs a single, unified standard for integrating data from sensors and devices of all types, both at the edge and in the core.

Smart building suppliers lose value by seeing the opportunity through the lens of aging business models and practices.

Extended Reality for the enterprise is about to arrive.

We need to give up on the idea that the IT and Telco players will solve very much of anything and start relying on a new generation of innovators.

In most industries we now have vast amounts of data but little integration into our business systems.

OEM strategists must imagine the new landscape they will inhabit.

Rather than end-of-year “trends” Harbor offers emerging research themes for 2021 and beyond.

The value of data in smart systems is rising constantly while data management’s role continues to be misunderstood.

Making the “shift to Smart Services” sounds tame but it is actually quite foreign to most OEMs and technology providers.

Digital Twins tech is ready but small firms aren’t using it.

Running an OEM’s core business while seeking new customer solutions can be a source of innovation rather than contention.

Hardware OEMs understand that software is the future but they fail to grasp that the software business is a different world.

The days of the monolithic app are ending and being replaced by micro re-usable software components.

In business as in chemistry, catalysis is in essence the process of sneaking around a barrier that others are struggling to climb.

Most people view the creation of a global information economy as a “fait accompli,” a done deal, but we have good reason to doubt that conclusion.

OEMs need to adopt a broader view of non-traditional growth opportunities. These can include emergent innovations that threaten the core business, as well as opportunities to collaborate with customers and partners on new solutions.

Software will play the leading role in machine-equipment, device-focused systems, and OEM businesses. How players can participate in this rapidly evolving trillion-dollar opportunity?

Software will play the leading role in machine-equipment, device-focused systems, and OEM businesses.

New technologies are reshaping how manufacturing businesses engage with customers and compete. Over the next decade, these technologies will propel innovations that will change the ways we design, work, produce and learn.

We are still living in a world where most organizations view new technologies as “bolt-ons”—something closer to a supplement, a vitamin they can take. The simple fact is that Smart Systems and their underlying combinations of technologies are far more disruptive than previous generations of innovation.

Fathym has developed an innovative application development framework to enable software developers, subject matter experts and business users to rapidly and collaboratively build diverse data applications. The framework utilizes open source tools and an open data architecture enabled by microservices that seamlessly integrate with technology stacks to future-proof innovations.

The benefits of emerging Private LTE and 5G connectivity also bring the complexity of managing multiple, parallel networks.

The lesson of COVID-19 is that when you’re connected to the rest of the world, there’s going to be crises.
Let’s be ready for the next ones.

Airlines can become an “innovation orchestrator” for a new travel industry ecosystem.

Is our smart future based on code that is ultimately unverifiable?

End-of-year “trends” stories are seductive, but they ignore the underlying combinatorial forces that are the real drivers of the future.

Executives spent 30 years making their businesses as lean as possible. In their zeal, they vacuumed up all the innovation spending.

“Real-time” networking was always for high-value applications that required precise timing and synchronization. It’s now about to spread into everything.

In the conservative culture of most manufacturing-based businesses, competitive advantage is usually perceived to lie in ownership, secrecy, control, and sometimes adversarial relationships with suppliers and partners. It goes without saying that such a culture does not blend well with the notions of openness, transparency, and trust.

To date, most of the successful platform businesses are consumer- or user-focused. Fewer B2B markets have embraced this type of business model. We predict this will soon change.

The new generation of software will require open information flows and shared data. Creating an unbroken circle of data and information value based on the integration of people, processes, and relationships across new ecosystems will become the “holy grail” of smart systems.

Note to OEMs venturing into software: Those millions of lines of code are a whole different animal. They’re not a physical good like the things you know and build. They’re also not easy to create, price, sell, or support, and you’d better not confuse them with your existing business.

We’ve been speaking professionally about pervasive computing and the Internet of Things since the late 1990s when most people in business had no idea what we were talking about. Now everybody knows what we’re talking about, and many companies are trying to take part in it, but “giving the world a digital nervous system” has turned out to be remarkably difficult. If corporate IP battles and geopolitics don’t bring you to your knees, the most…