The full economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic are far from being understood, but it is already clear that there will be lasting if not permanent changes to global trade. Industrial Digitalisation will play a key role in helping manufacturing companies survive the coming turmoil.
The strategic importance of digitalisation, Industry 4.0, amongst executive and senior management in many industrial companies is undervalued and poorly understood. There’s really only one way to address the challenge of digitalisation: act now, act fast.
Understanding the ability of software to generate value is utterly key to successful digitalisation and not a core competence widely present amongst the leaders of High-Tech industry.
Why is software-driven innovation essential to becoming an Industry 4.0 / Smart Industry winner? In this 5 minute pitch, Robert Howe describes the challenges that face companies wanting to succeed at industrial digitalisation and where to go to find out more. Prefer text? The speaker notes of the presentation follow below the video. [...]
For decades, innovation has been driven by hardware with software consigned to an enabling role. Today, the move towards large-scale digitalisation is reversing these roles, with software driving innovation and hardware becoming increasingly commoditised. A new generation of smart systems is set to emerge based on software-centric technologies such as the industrial internet of things, [...]
The Smart Utopia More than ever, society is dreaming of a utopian future where “Smart” technologies such as AI, IOT, Big Data and Autonomous Vehicles improve quality of life for the majority of the world's populace. All of these advances are entirely dependent on software driven innovation. Therefore, mastering the ability to innovate in [...]
One of the biggest fallacies of our time is that software is indeed “soft”. For the last thirty years I have continually heard that it’s hardware that costs money, that it’s hardware that adds value, that it's hardware that the customer buys. I once worked in a development group that had 30 people working [...]
