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The Get Connected quiz: are you ready to transform your business?
Written by Chris O'Connor | October 30, 2018 | Blog
I hope you’ve gotten connected with me these last several weeks. I was talking to a colleague about why I wrote these. And it really comes down to one thing: IoT is taking place all around us. Are you and your company participating in the digital transformation, and impacting the physical world? Or are you ...read more
Get connected: it’s as easy as IoT
Written by Chris O'Connor | October 24, 2018 | Platform
Welcome to a new edition of our Get Connected series. We started the series with the goal of exploring how you can successfully transform and digitize your business, regardless of the industry you’re in. And we also said that we would focus on all steps of the journey, It doesn’t matter if you’re just considering ...read more
There’s a new superhero in town: DATA, keeping your workers safe
Written by Chris O'Connor | October 18, 2018 | Energy and Utilities, Manufacturing, Oil and Gas
Welcome to a new edition of our Get Connected series about worker safety. Today, we are going to discuss the most important aspect of your organization: your people and their ability to safely be dispatched to keep the assets in your environment running. With 178 work related accidents every 15 seconds, and 374 million non-fatal injuries ...read more
Get a full view of energy consumption and patterns across your enterprise
Written by Chris O'Connor | October 9, 2018 | Buildings
Welcome to a new edition of our Get Connected series. In my last blog, I talked about facilities management and improving your building’s operations. Today, I am going to continue on the buildings theme and discuss a hot topic for any building owner or occupant: energy consumption. Do you know your building’s current and expected ...read more
Optimize your building operations from the ground up
Written by Chris O'Connor | August 28, 2018 | Blog, Buildings
Welcome to a new edition of our Get Connected series. Today we are going to talk facilities management. This topic touches us all on a daily basis as we can all relate to how we experience a building. Just think about the things you pay attention to as you walk in. Is it the right ...read more
Discover how to optimize assets with AI-powered technology
Written by Chris O'Connor | August 23, 2018 | Asset Management, Blog
Asset-intensive companies are struggling with aging infrastructure, an aging workforce, skills gaps and a lack of asset performance visibility. They need to balance asset cost, reliability and risk. In this video edition of Get Connected, Chris O’Connor discusses how businesses can address these pressing challenges. Watch and then learn how you can optimize your asset ...read more
Are you managing your IoT devices’ software in the right way?
Written by Chris O'Connor | July 31, 2018 | Continuous Engineering, Requirements Management, Systems Engineering
Enterprises today are part of a new world: a software-driven world. And while this new world has brought many great innovations, it is also forcing organizations in all industries to rethink their software development practices, to deliver new features and offerings faster. Those entities that will embrace and incorporate change most effectively, will be the ...read more
Service delivery is your lifeline
Written by Chris O'Connor | July 26, 2018 | Blog
Welcome to the latest entry in my “Get Connected” series. Cars, washing machines, lawnmowers, fleets of trucks. No matter what assets you have, they are facing the same set of challenges: the quality of the actual asset and the quality of the service delivery of the asset have swapped places; they all break and need ...read more
Managing Engineering Complexity: Are you ready?
Written by Chris O'Connor | July 19, 2018 | Continuous Engineering, Requirements Management, Systems Engineering
Connected – This is one of the defining words of our world today. We have never been more connected – from the devices we wear on our bodies, to our cars and houses, to the manufacturers who build our things and, lastly, to the outer world where we get to experience the fruits of our ...read more
Get connected and learn how to drive your own digital transformation in our new series
Written by Chris O'Connor | July 17, 2018 | Blog
2017 was the year of transformation, with almost every industry investing in IoT. At the end of the year, I wrote a forward-looking blog on the Top 5 IoT trends transforming business in 2018. And “cognitive computing” was on the list because IoT is one of the primary drivers of digital transformation this year and ...read more