Training for IoT Product Managers
Aaron Allsbrook, Chief Technology Officer at ClearBlade, shares his experience developing industrial IoT solutions at scale. He also talks about the power of Edge Computing and how ClearBlade is leveraging this approach to develop complex industrial applications.
Companies are embracing the promise of the Internet of Things for disruption and growth. They see it as an opportunity to leap-frog the competition and significantly grow their revenues. And yet, many companies are failing and growing disillusioned. So how can Product Leaders leverage IoT to discover opportunities that can take their company to the next level?
In this post, I look at proven Product Management techniques to identify problems and then explore how IoT can help you build products that solve those problems.
Vish (Vishwesh) Pai, Director of Product Management for Samsung IoT Cloud Platform, shares excellent insights on aligning the multiple groups involved in developing an end-to-end IoT platform, his views on the various personas present in most IoT products, and gives great advice for both experienced and aspiring IoT Product Managers.
Dan Yarmoluk, Director of Business Development for ATEK Access Technologies, shares expert advice on data science considerations for Product Managers.
Andrew Scheuermann, CEO of Arch Systems, shares excellent insights on his company’s approach to modular solutions as well as expert advice on building hardware for the Internet of Things.
IIoT customers often demand a fully functional, end-to-end solution. And, most products often fall short of “the last mile” to give these customers exactly what they need. To bridge this gap (i.e., close the deal, or satisfy an important customer) Product Teams often agree to develop one-off features for that particular customer.
Overall, the Product Team has the right intentions, since their goal is to make the customer successful. But in practice, they are digging themselves into a sea of tech debt and one-off features that will hinder growth and threaten the long-term success of the product.
Josh Pederson, Director of Product Management at Ayla Networks shares his approach to managing Ayla’s IoT Cloud Platform.
CES 2018 introduced a smart toilet. But the real star of the show was a blackout. How did we get here? And what does that say about the state and the future of IoT?
Erik Walenza, CEO at IoTOne, conducts interviews to explore success factors and challenges in Industrial IoT markets with CEOs, investors, and experts. In this podcast episode, Erik invited me to discuss my views and approach to Industrial IoT product strategy.
Every new technology trend brings speculation and talk about a “killer app” that will be the solution to all of our problems.
Tech publications and blogs produce countless articles searching for the “killer app” for the iPhone, the Cloud, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, and of course, IoT. We’ve also even seen the same hype for development processes. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard that Agile is that silver bullet. Or maybe it was Lean, or Kanban? Hard to keep track.
With their ability to gather data after a product has been deployed, IoT products provide a platform to generate new and innovative business models that haven’t been seen before. In this post, I describe some of the most interesting ways to monetize your IoT product today.
IoT products are known for producing large amounts of data. Some people even argue that the reason to deploy IoT products is to produce and collect all this data, that the data in itself is what provides the value. I don’t think so. In this post, I describe the importance of having a data strategy and share with you how I discovered this the hard way.
