IoT Data Analytics – Business Transformation Through Connected Customers, Products, and Processes

Accredent principal, Jennifer Nowlin, has been selected to speak on Business Transformation Through Internet of Things Analytics at the upcoming sold out 2016 IoTFuse Conference along with other industry luminaries.

IoT Data Analytics

Business Transformation Through Connected Customers, Products, and Processes

Internet-of-Things (IoT) data analytics make clear that digital technology is no longer just another tool. It has become the foundation of an entirely new way of doing business, as well as giving rise to entirely new businesses. There will be 100 billion connected devices expected by 2025, leading to a trillion sensor ecosystem. 1 billion digital natives expected to join the workforce over the next 7 years. In a hyper-connected era of mobile, social, cloud, big data, and the Internet of Things, future business models and end-to-end digital strategies will depend on the availability of more data flowing through more systems, being accessed and used by more people. The session will focus on the  basics of what is involved in transforming your customer experience, products, business processes, and your business utilizing IoT data analytics.


Jennifer Nowlin is a Principal at Accredent . She is a 20 year M2M and IoT industry veteran and expert in both the business and technology of IoT. Jennifer has held senior business development and technical leadership roles with Verizon and other leading companies prior to joining Accredent.  Working across the complete IoT value chain over a wide range of use cases with hundreds of companies, she has successfully brought new to world IoT solutions to market, led business transformations, and engaged markets effectively leveraging integrated partnerships with large corporations and emerging companies. Jennifer has a BS in Electrical Engineering - University of Wisconsin Madison and MBA - Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.


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Accredent specializes in the Business of The Internet of Things(tm). Formed in 2009 out a four year strategy and M&A engagement with companies that pioneered many of today's Internet-of-Things connected technologies, business cases and use cases.

Accredent has been successful partnering with business leaders of corporations and emerging ventures to develop and transform their businesses, accelerate revenue, growth and enterprise value through the Internet of Things. accredent.com

Tech Giants Form Internet of Things (IoT) Standards Group

IoT Standards Alliance

Microsoft, Cisco, Electrolux, General Electric, Intel, Qualcomm, Samsung, ARRIS, and CableLabs in a joint press release say they will work together to create specifications and protocols to ensure devices from a myriad of manufacturers work in harmony.


 
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Accredent specializes in the Business of The Internet of Things(tm). Formed in 2009 out a four year strategy and M&A engagement with companies that pioneered many of today's Internet-of-Things connected technologies, business cases and use cases.

Accredent has been successful partnering with business leaders of corporations and emerging ventures to develop and transform their businesses, accelerate revenue, growth and enterprise value through the Internet of Things. accredent.com

Internet of Things and Data Analytics Changing Industry Investment

 IoT is Changing Industry Investment

Automation World’s David Greenfield penned an article about research from the Industrial Internet Consortium that points to how IoT is “turning the venture capital model upside down.” In part Greenfield writes: Last year, the Industrial Internet Consortium’s Thought Leadership Task Group commissioned a project with New England Partners to find out “what was changing, how companies…

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IoT based on the mobile cloud growing fast.

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The big data gold rush: Will Wall Street be left behind?

Debra Walton in her article for Thompson Reuters asks, "Amid all the excitement about big data, are financial firms taking the right approach to it?" It’s easy to be enthralled by the hype, but hard to turn big data into an integral part of the corporate strategy. Like gold miners, the challenge for Wall Street will be getting real nuggets, not fool’s gold, silt, and pebbles...
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Cypress buying Broadcom

Cypress announced a $550 million acquisition of Broadcom. The Broadcom division employs about 430 workers and generated $189 million in sales over the past year, Cypress said. T.J. Rodgers, one of the most prominent leaders of the microchip industry, plans to step down as chief executive of Cypress after nearly 34 years running the company he founded. Cypress shares rose 6% following the announcements.
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KORE merges with Wyless

On March 9, 2016 KORE Wireless Group, Inc. (“KORE”), the world’s largest managed wireless network services provider specializing in Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications and the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced the acquisition, in an all-cash transaction, of Wyless Group Holdings (“Wyless”). Following the completion of this transaction, the combined company will be supported by a staff of more than 350 team members, maintain a customer base of more than 3,000 B2B companies globally and serve in excess of six million subscribers on behalf of those customers. The organization will instantly rise to become one of the six largest providers of M2M/IoT services globally, inclusive of carriers...
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Cisco to buy Jasper to add to their end-to-end strategy

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Accredent specializes in the Business of The Internet of Things(tm). Formed in 2009 out a four year strategy and M&A engagement with companies that pioneered many of today's Internet-of-Things connected technologies, business cases and use cases.

Accredent has been successful partnering with business leaders of corporations and emerging ventures to develop and transform their businesses, accelerate revenue, growth and enterprise value through the Internet of Things. accredent.com

Internet of Things M&A has Skyrocketed

IOTFuse 2016 Kick-off Presentation

Accredent presented the state of IoT M&A at this year's IoTFuse 2016 Kick-off event. We shared what is going on in a very hot technology and Internet-of-things M&A environment, and discussed how technology and non-technology corporations and emerging IoT businesses should prepare. Great audience and great discussion.

IoT M&A is Skyrocketing

IoT M&A activities continued to accelerate as technology and non-technology companies try to stay ahead of competitive disruption, acquire talent and pursue the partners needed for end-to-end strategies. As of the last fully reported quarter 3Q15, there were 114 IoT deals (compared to 56 for all of 2014) with a total value of $31.9 billion (compared with $13 billion for full-year 2014).

In 3Q15 alone, there were 38 IoT deals with a total disclosed value of $14.7 billion. 15 of those were Americas deals. Nearly 20 EMEA IoT deals accounted for 59% of the region’s closed value, although they represented only 7% of volume.

For a detailed report or copy of the presentation please Contact Accredent For more information and articles on recent related transactions and trends see our Related Article  and follow Accredent at +accredent and @accredent.

What to do?

Lines between technology and non-technology companies and industries are becoming blurrier and blurrier.  Established companies who have not developed a clear Internet-of-things organic and inorganic strategy need to start.  Those who have one need to execute.

Emerging IoT companies are not the kind that you are going to pass on to your children.  Leaders of these companies need to begin to conceive, or refocus, themselves to be "built to sell" in order to best capture their value at Exit, or even attract investors.

IoT still involves a complex value chain and business process change

A complex value chain and complex business process impact still defines IoT and its associated end-to-end digital strategies.  Seek experienced professional help when taking it on, but choose wisely. Many professional service organizations large and small are entering as advisors, changing their business card from whatever they were before to now say IoT expert.

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Accredent specializes in the Business of The Internet of Things(tm). Formed in 2009 out a four year strategy and M&A engagement with companies that pioneered many of today's Internet-of-Things connected technologies, analytics and use cases. Contact Us

Accredent has been successful partnering with business leaders of corporations and emerging ventures to develop and transform their businesseses, accelerate revenue, growth and enterprise value through the Internet of Things. accredent.com

Roundup of Internet of Things Forecasts and Market Estimates, 2015

Forbes Roundup Of IoT Forecasts and Market Estimates

 

Louis Columbus' December 27th Forbes article provides a good summary of what is projected to happen with the Internet of Things.  The article includes a number of interesting infographics.

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Accredent specializes in the Business of The Internet of Things(tm). Formed in 2009 out a four year strategy and M&A engagement with companies that pioneered many of today's Internet-of-Things connected technologies, analytics and use cases. Contact Us

Accredent has been successful partnering with business leaders of corporations and emerging ventures to develop and transform their businesseses, accelerate revenue, growth and enterprise value through the Internet of Things. accredent.com

Internet of Things and Data Analytics Playing Dominate Role in Merger & Acquisition in 2015

The latest M&A trend reports show of the 1,069 technology-related transactions tracked in 3Q 2015, IoT topped the chart in average value per deal at $1.2 billion followed by Big Data Analytics at $800 million. Many deals were cross-industry and between  non-tech and tech companies. Companies involved in M&As of IoT valued at more than $5 billion, included: Carlyle, GICPrivate, Veritas Information, Honeywell-Elster.

Year to date, there were 114 IoT deals tracked (compared with 56 for all of 2014) with total value of $31.9 billion (compared with $13 billion for full-year 2014). Big Data Analytics deals of had a total value of $29.5 billion year to date, more than double that of its 2014 total.

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Accredent specializes in the Business of The Internet of Things(tm). Formed in 2009 out a four year strategy and M&A engagement with companies that pioneered many of today's Internet-of-Things connected technologies, analytics and use cases. Contact Us

Accredent has been successful partnering with business leaders of corporations and emerging ventures to develop and transform their businesseses, accelerate revenue, growth and enterprise value through the Internet of Things. accredent.com

M&A at its highest levels since before 2008.

According to dealogic.com, M&A deal value is at its highest rate since 2008.

Global M&A volume has surpassed $4tr for the first YTD period on record, and now stands at $4.06tr in 2015. This represents a 38% increase on 2014 YTD ($2.94tr), and is marginally higher than the previous YTD high in 2007 ($3.93tr).  

Technology is the most targeted sector in 2015 YTD with a YTD record high volume of $631.7bn, 53% higher than the previous YTD record high of $412.8bn set in 2000 YTD. 

Healthcare is second with both a YTD record high volume of $549.4bn, and a YTD record share of total M&A (14%)

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Accredent specializes in the Business of The Internet of Things(tm). Formed in 2009 out a four year strategy and M&A engagement with companies that pioneered many of today's Internet-of-Things connected technologies, analytics and use cases. Contact Us

Accredent has been successful partnering with business leaders of corporations and emerging ventures to develop and transform their businesseses, accelerate revenue, growth and enterprise value through the Internet of Things. accredent.com

Are You Ready for the "Business" of the Internet-of-Things?

 

Navigate digital disruption with an end-to-end digital business strategy.

Professor Michael Porter's recent Harvard Business Review articles on Internet-of-Things (IoT) make clear that it is about business transformation, not another tool. It has become the foundation of an entirely new way of doing business, as well as giving rise to entirely new businesses. There will be 100 billion connected devices expected by 2025, leading to a trillion sensor ecosystem. 1 billion digital natives expected to join the workforce over the next 7 years.  In a hyper-connected era of mobile, social, cloud, big data, and the Internet of Things, future business models will depend on the availability of more data flowing through more systems, being accessed and used by more people.

Formulating end-to-end digital strategies, leading the activation of new product/service solution roadmaps, designing new customer experiences and business models, and championing digital business transformation inside companies and within customer organizations will be a primary strategic and tactical challenge.  Thoughtful organic and inorganic strategy, and well-led product innovation, user experience, and evolution of existing assets and intellectual property will be key to a positive goal-directed digital transformation capable of contributing to significant growth and value creation. 


Professor Porter's HBR IoT articles can be found at the following links.

https://hbr.org/2014/11/how-smart-connected-products-are-transforming-competition
https://hbr.org/2015/10/how-smart-connected-products-are-transforming-companies

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Accredent specializes in the Business of The Internet of Things(tm). Formed in 2009 out a four year strategy, M&A, and business development engagement with companies that pioneered many of today's Internet-of-Things connected technologies, analytics and use cases. Contact Us

Accredent has been successful partnering with business leaders of corporations, operations and product teams, and emerging ventures to develop and transform their businesseses, accelerate revenue, growth and enterprise value through the Internet of Things. accredent.com

5.4 Billion IoT Connected Enterprise Devices By 2020

Enterprise IoT Projected to Grow From 1.2 Billion To 5.4 Billion connected devices by 2020.

In our six years of Accredent's involvement with IoT we have seen the forecast for the number of connected enterprise devices continue to be adjusted upward each year as more businesses look to the technology to save money, collect useful information, transform their business models and change their basis of competition.

In the latest report from US mobile network Verizon projects that today's 1.2 billion business use devices connected to the internet will grow 28 percent year-over-year for the next five years to 5.4 billion by 2020.  Verizon believes the verticals and segments of energy and utilities, public sector, digital signage, connected CCTV, fleet management, and connected vehicles to be the sources of much of this growth.

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Accredent specializes in the Business of The Internet of Things(tm). Formed in 2009 out a four year strategy and M&A engagement with companies that pioneered many of today's Internet-of-Things connected technologies, analytics and use cases. Contact Us

Accredent has been successful partnering with business leaders of corporations and emerging ventures to develop and transform their businesseses, accelerate revenue, growth and enterprise value through the Internet of Things. accredent.com

Accredent Enters 7th Year Supporting Business Growth

Minneapolis based Accredent, LLC is very pleased to be celebrating six years of supporting leaders of NASDAQ and private companies on their journey to growth and value creation through Strategy, M&A, Business Development and Insight Research. Thanks to our clients for their trust over the years, and the opportunity to serve and contribute to their success.

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Accredent specializes in the Business of The Internet of Things(tm). Formed in 2009 out a four year strategy and M&A engagement with companies that pioneered many of today's Internet-of-Things connected technologies, analytics and use cases. Contact Us

Accredent has been successful partnering with business leaders of corporations and emerging ventures to develop and transform their businesseses, accelerate revenue, growth and enterprise value through the Internet of Things. accredent.com

Improve Your Odds of IoT M&A Success

 

M&A is a Critical Piece of Internet of Things Strategy

Critical but risky path to growth. 
Companies not participating in corporate M&A development can leave 50% or more of their growth on the table. However, with a success rate averaging only 45%, growth through acquisitions must be seen as an expensive high risk strategy. That said, success rate vary widely and with the right knowledge and processes your risk can be dramatically reduced. A thoughtful, well-executed acquisition process can improve the odds.

Proactive approach improves the odds. 
Opportunistic acquisitions fail 63% of the time. Proactive acquisitions aligned to a growth strategy and a strong acquisition planning process succeed at a much greater rate. The problem can be tracked back to a lack of quality choice due to a passive approach in the identification of a range of prospective targets.

Alignment with your current business key to success. 
Understanding and deep insight are critical. Studies show that best acquisitions are most often made in related fields, and the worst in less related fields. The strategic decision to acquire in a totally new field can seriously effect your chance of success.

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Accredent specializes in the Business of The Internet of Things(tm). Formed in 2009 out a four year strategy and M&A engagement with companies that pioneered many of today's Internet-of-Things connected technologies, analytics and use cases. Contact Us

Accredent has been successful partnering with business leaders of corporations and emerging ventures to develop and transform their businesseses, accelerate revenue, growth and enterprise value through the Internet of Things. accredent.com

Is Your IoT Innovation Failing The Value Creation Test?

Internet of Things Innovation and enterprise value

A fundamental value creation challenge is finding innovation that changes the basis of competition and creates structural advantages that, in turn, creates sustained enterprise value.  Even the most creative business ideas can fail this value creation test when the innovation discussion centers solely on creating value through operational process, products, services or market innovation.

A study by the IBM CEO Report  explored how firms distribute their innovation efforts. While most businesses applied some effort into innovating across the board, business model innovation received the least attention.

 

However, Companies focused on business model innovation delivered 5% higher five year compound annual growth rates. While businesses focused on product/service/market innovation saw only slight growth.  Those primarily applying process innovation were actually worse off. 

 

 

Technology is changing the basis of competitive advantage. Whereas it may have taken 18 months for a competitor to copy a new product or service in the past, the time is down to 6 months or less in many sectors.

Formulating value creating Internet of Things-based business strategies, leading the activation of new product/service solution roadmaps, designing new customer experiences and business models, and championing digital business transformation inside companies and within customer organizations will be a primary strategic and tactical challenge for most companies going forward. 

A thoughtfully planned and well executed Internet of Things customer experience-driven business model innovation changes the basis of competition and creates sustainable structural advantages that can take even the best "fast follower" several years to emulate.

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Accredent specializes in the Business of The Internet of Things(tm). Formed in 2009 out a four year strategy, M&A, and business development engagement with companies that pioneered many of today's Internet-of-Things connected technologies, analytics and use cases. Contact Us

Accredent has been successful partnering with business leaders of corporations, operations and product teams, and emerging ventures to develop and transform their businesseses, accelerate revenue, growth and enterprise value through the Internet of Things. accredent.com