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It’s Time for Companies to Be Strategic About Energy

Harvard Business Review

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. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture.

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The Internet of Things Will Change Your Company, Not Just Your Products

Harvard Business Review

Specifically, it requires reimagining the business you are in, empathizing with your target customers and their challenges, and creatively determining how to most effectively solve their problems. In IoT businesses, sales departments often struggle to determine how to best take a combined product and service to market. Operations.