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Excellent post. Some issues.
"So far, the applications have been very limited."
Hunh? Hope this is just rhetorical flair.
Your 'set of technologies' is far too abstract. IoT is a lot simpler.
IoT is sensors + computing + radios that create value. Simple.
IoT is not 'very limited' today. For most the Mother of IoT is a smartphone. They are chock full of sensors + computing + radios. They do all the 'connecting' jazz you describe.
Smartphone app stores offer >3M applications. There has been >100B downloads. IoT is not 'very limited.'
IoT, and early deployments like smartphones, is refacing humanity.
There is definitely a highly intimidating and impenetrable IoT 'white space.' Unfortunately, the _'systematic assessment of the economic and strategic value...' won't correct it. Rather, it's the main cause!
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein
Paradoxically, IoT simply has no frame for most people, yet, most people are heavy users.
Beware of IoT apoplexy. Your post helps.
http://colabria.com/iot-explained/
Harnessing the True Potential of Internet of Things Technology
Despite all the hype, businesses are still significantly under-estimating the business impact of Internet of Things (IoT) technology. In my last blog post, I explored at a high level the likely evolution of business models in the Big Shift. Now, I'll use IoT technologies to illustrate how just o...
Hi - Zantedeschia aethiopica is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial plant known as calla lilies not cala lillies . You may have a sticky 'l' key. -j
Painting of California Cala Lillies
Here is a 9" x 12" square painting of a cala lillies from a photo taken in Mendicino California. The best way to easily see most of my paintings for sales is to go to my Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/bill.ives2 - and look at Photos and albums within Photos. I have three photo albums c...
Good post. I line-up with that history professor on the Charles.
Sorry, 'disruptive innovation' is annoying shtick. It's professorial hubris. We need to get away from the 'disruptive' baloney as fast as possible.
For example, most computing today is based on the Von Neumann architecture of 1945. In the 1960s the prominent computing model of was called cloud computing oh, ahh, err, sorry, meant time-sharing. The electronic tablet was patented in 1888. Magnetic storage was first demonstrated at the Paris Exposition of 1900. So forth and so on...
Yet, every time there is an incremental improvement in these decades-old concepts, some centuries old, it is called 'disruptive.' It's revolting embroidery.
Meanwhile, contrary to the overbearing hype, the facts are that business startups are at a 30-year low. Workforce participation is lower than during the Carter Administration.
Furthermore, the US Administration is patently incompetent. Congress, at 14% approval rating, is objectively dysfunctional. Tax 'inversion' is driving household name firms and their cash hoard out of the USA. Not to mention geometric expansion of global terrorism...
Want shift? This hot mess is one huge, stinking pile of shift.
My money is on Porter everyday. 'Clay' is riding his coattails with irritating and superficial management rhetoric. It's Number 85 is a long-line managerial bombast. See:
http://colabria.com/management-science/
'Disruptive Innovation' is management woo. The sooner it fades the better for everyone.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Woo
The Disruption Debate - What's Missing?
I admit that I’m mystified by Jill Lepore’s article in the New Yorker attacking Clayton Christensen and his theory of disruptive innovation. Not only does it have a meanness that isn’t warranted, but it leaves the reader with an unanswered question: if Clay's theories are not helpful (and I stil...
Wow! My personal pals Roy and Johnny. That's cool, great to see 'em...
Did you have some "Old Sober" (yaka mein)? It's the fav.
Hanging now, at the moment, with Cosmo & The Counts. Dig it.
http://youtu.be/lmHg5k9_nAw
Keep it real!
NOLA 2014 Jazz Fest Highlights: May 3
This is my second New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and once again I will be at all days. Here are highlights from Saturday May 3. I plan to post my highlights for each day. Last year I did a number of paintings based on my Jazz Fest photos. I plan to do more this year. Spencer Bohren does...
Story -- deterministic
Narrative - nondeterministic
Not So Grand Narratives
Narrative is a powerful concept with enormous potential. But it’s also fraught with misunderstanding because of the many different meanings attached to the term. By unpacking those different meanings, leaders of institutions and movements can begin to better understand the power of narratives. R...
Hi - Sorry to disent, but UC is a counterproductive farce. Beware. UC is a classic 'anti-pattern.'
"Their research finds that the more business involvement in IT projects, the higher the success."
WTF? What year is it? This circa 1970s remark is bass-ackwards. Correct:
"The more IT involvement in business projects, the higher the success, the better the business outcome."
UC is lame. See:
"Too often, agency network patterns and configurations pursue ‘unified’ architectures and deployments. This is a deadly mistake. The more these legacy-style architectural practices are institutionalized, the more rigid they become. In turn, the more they are taken for granted, the more resources are required to managing them! It is a vicious cycle and deadly embrace."
http://networksingularity.com/2011/03/15/hope-for-the-best-plan-for-the-worst.aspx
UC is a classic anti-patterns. Yep, said it twice. Please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-patterns
Cheers,
John
Boston E20 Notes: Building a Unified Communications and Collaboration Roadmap
I am pleased to be back for my sixth Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. Here is a link to a summary of last year’s notes - This is another of my notes. There will be more to follow. I attended Irwin Lazar’s workshop - Building a Unified Communications and Collaboration Roadmap". Irwin is Vice...
Yes, anyone that spawns so much thinking, conversation and, yes, disagreement, has to in the pantheon.
So here goes, the medium really IS the message. Content is completely irrelevant. For example, from professor McLuhan, the MEDIUM of movable type greatly accelerated, intensified and ultimately enabled cultural and cognitive changes, aka, the MESSAGE.
Not to trivialize the prosaic, day to day uses of the MEDIUM, but it is how, in the fullness of time, the medium impacts humanity – that’s the real MESSAGE!
Anyway, debating HMM in a blog comment is like deconstructing Joyce in Taki Taki (341 total words in the language).
On favorite quote from Professor McLuhan that is germane…
“Catholic culture produced Chaucer and Cervantes. Protestant culture produced Milton, Tennyson and Winnipeg, Manitoba.”
-j
Revisiting Marshall McLuhan
Here is another book about one of the more innovative thinkers in the last century, Marshall McLuhan. David Carr reviews Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!” by Douglas Coupland in the New York Times. Thanks to Chris Coleman, EVP of Marketing at Yakabod, for pointing out the review. ...
Hi - Thanks. 'Been a McLuhan evangelist for 30yrs. Despite all the hype, definitely think Marsh would have NOT been surprised by two recent things --
- The short life of social media apps
- The farce of TV-Internet integration
Yesterday Myspace laid-off 500 people, half its people. They follow the long-line of failed social media like AOL, Compuserve, Orkut, Friendster, etc. Trust me, Facebook will have their comeuppance and it will be ugly. If you want to know why, read McLuhan. The medium is the message.
Concerning TV, as Marsh predicted, it delivers the persistent vegetative state that viewers crave. After pouring asphalt or bookkeeping all day, the last thing people want is media interactivity. The Number One criterion for TV content is ease of watchability. The medium is the message.
Annoying media dilettantes see McLuhan’s notion of the “homogenizing and dehumanizing effect of mass media” as a pejorative. Absolutely wrong. Quite to the contrary, these media properties of the global village all led the Modern period in the Western world: individualism, democracy, capitalism, etc., etc. The medium is the message.
An ardent Roman Catholic, McLuhan attended Mass every day. His faith was the embodiment of his theories and vice versa. As many perceptions an observations originated from Oxford and Toronto as they did from The Vatican and Dublin. The fluidity and travel between idea and metaphor and rigor and perception was ultimately validated by Catholic faith. The medium is the message.
-j
Revisiting Marshall McLuhan
Here is another book about one of the more innovative thinkers in the last century, Marshall McLuhan. David Carr reviews Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!” by Douglas Coupland in the New York Times. Thanks to Chris Coleman, EVP of Marketing at Yakabod, for pointing out the review. ...
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