Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2016

Last year, networking giant Cisco Systems worked with one of its contract manufacturers in Malaysia to deploy 1,500 energy and temperature sensors on its manufacturing equipment. As Kern put it, “We always manage costs so closely, but we weren’t really measuring energy — we didn’t know how much we spent!

Energy 8

Energy Company Supply Chain Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance. Lastly, big- and medium-sized contract manufacturers are taking an interest in this movement, and looking to work with start-ups in a way they weren’t five years ago. Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

I have had a front row seat as companies have struggled to enter the emerging world of the Internet of Things — first, 10 years ago as a vice president at Ambient Devices , an MIT Media Lab spinoff that was a pioneer in commercializing IoT devices, and then as a consultant. Building an IoT offering requires design thinking from the get-go.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8