Trend: In Trucking, Air Traffic Control Towers Are the New Offices!
Earlier this week, I spoke to several hundred executives from the trucking industry at a keynote for the Omnitracs customer conference in Phoenix. My keynote focused on the trends which are sweeping...
View ArticleTrend: Smart Homes Will be Smarter Than You Think – Who, Why, Where? And a...
As with anything, the opportunity around the idea of the ‘smart home’, and the reality of what will transpire, varies to a large degree. We are in early days yet! That was the essence of an exchange I...
View ArticleThere is No Internet of Things -> There are Many Internet of Things: And a...
As I’ve said before, we are still in the starting gate comes to the Internet of Things. Like the early days of the Internet, the idea has been formulated, ideas are bubbling, and imaginations are...
View ArticleBBC Interviews me on #IoT : “The Brain Inside Our Homes” : It’s Early Days...
The BBC gave me a call to chat about what is really going on with the Internet of Things (populalrly known as IoT) … and ended up running a great summary of our conversation. The article captures the...
View ArticleArticle: “FitBits for Cows: The Future of Agriculture is Hyperconnected!
The folks at Farm and Dairy Magazine interviewed me on trends to watch in 2018 in the world of agriculture. It’s a good read – you’ll find it below! On stage in New Orleans, I spoke about the idea of...
View ArticleDaily Inspiration: “Every day, you have a chance to make your own...
This was a repeat engagement – the organization previously had me in for a talk on future trends and innovation in 2016. In this case, I took a look at the future of manufacturing from 3 distinct...
View ArticleKeynote: Columbus McKinnon, Las Vegas, Nevada : The Impact of Blockchain and...
What happens when products become intelligent, hyperconnected, aware, responsive and proactive? That was one of two areas of focus for my keynote for this company, which manufactures the overhead...
View ArticleBlockchain, the Internet of Things, & The Ultimate Disruption
I’ve had several keynotes recently where companies in the manufacturing, transportation, automative and financial industry have asked me to come in and help them sort of what is going on with Bitcoin,...
View ArticleTrend: IOT? It’s Early Days Yet, and Most Products So Far are a Big Failure!
In the last few months, I’ve had two keynotes where I’ve put in perspective the marriage of the Internet of Things with blockchain as a trend. This is a pretty massive issue yet one with a lot of hype...
View ArticleDaily Inspiration: “Hyper-connectivity now defines the future of just about...
“Hyper-connectivity now defines the future of just about everything!” Jim Caroll during Plenary 2 at IRU World Congress at OCEC in Muscat, Oman, on November 7, 2018. In the photo, I’m on stage in...
View ArticleTrend: Security & Privacy Failures Will Be the Primary Force for Destruction...
For over 20 years, I’ve been preaching that as long as corporate boards do not have specific responsibility for computer security and privacy in their skills matrix, the company will be at risk. That...
View ArticleInsight 2020: Leadership Strategies for the Era of Acceleration #13 – Rethink...
What you sell, how you sell it, the way you explain it, the utility it provides, the value it has, the manner by which you service and repair it – these are all changing quickly in the era of smart,...
View ArticleVideo: “It’s Not a Widget Anymore!”
You can’t sell what you don’t understand! That’s a fact! Watch this highlight clip from a recent keynote for the Philips medical devices annual sales meeting in Nashville. The organization knows that...
View ArticleBBC Interviews me on #IoT : “The Brain Inside Our Homes” : It’s Early Days...
The BBC gave me a call to chat about what is really going on with the Internet of Things (populalrly known as IoT) … and ended up running a great summary of our conversation. The article captures the...
View ArticleArticle: “FitBits for Cows: The Future of Agriculture is Hyperconnected!
The folks at Farm and Dairy Magazine interviewed me on trends to watch in 2018 in the world of agriculture. It’s a good read – you’ll find it below! On stage in New Orleans, I spoke about the idea of...
View ArticleBaseball Bats, The Future, and the Next Generation!
Highly intelligent, connected baseball bats are arriving to our future. This tells us something about the next generation and our future, going forward. What do you do to deal with this reality?...
View ArticleVideo: The 11 Rules of #IOT Architecture
Back in 2017, I wrote a post, The 11 Rules of #IOT Architecture, which outlined what organizations must do to ensure they put in place a reliable, robust architecture as they go into the future. It...
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