The Inversion Factor: How IoT Changes Everything

The Inversion Factor: How IoT Changes Everything

Inversion is the phenomenon that enables businesses to grow and thrive dramatically by allowing customer-needs to drive what products and services a company should have, vs, outdated product specs and offerings, often missing customer desires and needs. One of the key enablers of Inversion is IoT.  IoT creates the network of connecting things, enabling companies…

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The Immersion of Things

Following my blog post of last week about why IoT is hot now and the link between IoT and AI, as promised, here is further discussion. In The Inversion Factor,  we see a clear progress in IoT from Things, to IoT , to The Intelligence of Things, followed by The Immersion of Things. Today we…

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Why Is IoT Hot Now?

In 2001, my startup in Cambridge and several others started the IoT movement via RFID and devices on the net. My first white paper on this topic was called “IoD, Internet of Devices.” At the same time, colleagues at MIT AutoID Center, were propagating IoT. Now almost 18 years later, I am delighted to see…

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2018: INVERSION And Going From AI Hype To Reality

2018 will be an exciting year for artificial intelligence. Not because every company will have sorted their AI strategy out and not because AI deployments will have sky rocketed. Not because we will have solved the lack of skillset shortages or have figured out exactly what to apply AI to. We are still at the…

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Coming Soon: The Inversion Factor

Delighted to share The Inversion Factor with you. The Inversion Factor discusses the emerging architecture of IoT, the specific nuances and the evolution of a ‘Needs-First’ vs a ‘Product-First’ mentality/architecture & economy in the emerging Hyper Connected World.  We have included in depth and never-available-before case studies and we explain/discuss the emerging architecture of IoT…

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