IIC Business Strategy and Solution Lifecycle
big caveat is that these updates were only available for Tesla cars bought after September 2014.
This compatibility issue highlights how managing the different evolution speeds in the physical
and the digital world is one of the big challenges of the IIoT.
IIoT implementers will also need to be able to manage the different cultures that can be found in
the twin partners that comprise it: the machine-centric culture and internet-centric culture. The
culture in the “machine camp” is different from the culture in the “internet camp” on many levels,
including willingness to take risks, individual career planning, management styles and so on.
Figure 3: Clash of Two Worlds [EIoT15]
In order to help companies manage the value chain transformation and the associated
challenges, we believe that a structured collection of best practices and methodologies will be
invaluable. The IIC BSSL WG is working to deliver this collection.
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ENABLING TRANSFORMATIVE BUSINESS SOLUTIONS IN THE IIOT
The BSSL WG is addressing two levels: The enterprise strategy level and the solutions level. The
goal of an IIoT enterprise strategy is to help the company to introduce IIoT on the corporate
strategic agenda, to identify the best IIoT business opportunities, to help refine them until the
projects can be funded, and to ensure that the required strategic partnerships are established.
On the solutions level, the entire lifecycle of the IIoT solution needs be supported – from planning
and designing to building and testing, then preparing the operations environment, gathering data
on the deployed solution or the product in use and ensuring the solution is performing as
expected while able to evolve. Adding new services after the initial launch is important, and so is
the support of existing and new customers.
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