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You may be aware that CIMdata has been hosting a series of educational webinars. We have seen record attendance and many of the past webinars are available for replay from the CIMdata on-Demand page of our website. I recently hosted a webinar on IoT which generated lots of questions that we did not have time to answer live and and I am working my way through them. Here are a few. For those of you who were unable to join the webinar you can watch it here. Watch this space. Stan Can you comment on what IoT means to CAE or Simulation & Analysis space? What other companies are doing? More software in products has led to an emphasis on systems thinking and systems engineering, so this should become more important, and S&A/CAE is a big part of that. Again, as I discussed in the Webinar, there is still a lot of work
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I experienced a strategic “innovation” transformation when I worked in Procter & Gamble’s (P&G) diaper business between 1996 and 2007. In my first assignment the name of the business was “Diaper Category,” later it became “Baby Care.” This was an indication of a significant change in the business strategy—the focus was no longer only on the product (the diaper) but also on the job-to-be done (caring for the baby.) The journey that led to this change started with the realization that the manufacturing platform was limiting the product design space, and hence innovation. Projects were taking too long and costing too much. Once this reality was accepted, the organization went through a major transformation that started with understanding moms at a deeper, emotional level. Moms interact with their babies differently at each stage of development—newborns are cuddled in soft blankets, and toddlers are encouraged to be independent and active. Shouldn’t it
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You may be aware that CIMdata has been hosting a series of educational webinars. We have seen record attendance and many of the past webinars are available for replay from the CIMdata on-Demand page of our website. I recently hosted a webinar on IoT which generated lots of questions that we did not have time to answer live and and I am working my way through them. Here are a few. For those of you who were unable to join the webinar you can watch it here. Watch this space. Stan Convenience versus security is always a debatable point for emerging technologies like IOT / Cloud computing. How is IOT going to handle this? We mentioned standards. Many have a strong security component. Device level security is paramount. There is always encryption and stripping off identifying data. If users have to do much it is not going to work. I think are going
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