Dateline: June 2, 2017 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. For several years now, as the Internet of Things (IoT) connects many of our seemingly harmless devices to the web in order to add features and functionality, cybersecurity professionals have pointed out how much more vulnerable to attacks we have become. No one makes this point … [Read more...]
Butterfly Effect Implications of IoT
Dateline: March 4, 2016 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. The Internet of Things (IoT) discussions are heating up and senior IT leaders are asking deeper, more thought provoking questions. Recently, I ran across an interesting discussion about the impact of IoT on predictive analytics. James Kobielus, IBM's Data Evangelist, suggested … [Read more...]
Business Unit- IT Alignment on the Internet of Things
Dateline: September 5, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s thought builds on our earlier post on the "Internet of Things." Baseline Magazine reported findings from a recent study by Gartner of 400 IT professionals in the UK and the US about the readiness of IT organization for the impact of adding so many devices to … [Read more...]
Internet of Things: Shift from Products to Services
Dateline: August 8, 2014 Welcome to our Friday WRAP – one thought-provoking idea to think about over the weekend. This week’s idea comes from two articles published this year at Information Age, a UK-based website for IT leaders, on the Internet of Things (IoT). The first, published earlier this year, is titled, 4 things that will happen in the Internet of Things space in 2014. In that … [Read more...]