Founded in 1983, Harbor Research, Inc. has more than twenty years of experience in providing strategic consulting and research services that enable our clients to understand and capitalize on emergent and disruptive opportunities in high technology. The firm has established a unique competence in developing business strategy for the convergence of pervasive computing and global networking—the phenomenon we call “the Pervasive Internet.”
The Pervasive Internet is unleashing an age of "living intelligence" enabled by networked devices. The challenges and opportunities presented by the Pervasive Internet are profound and go to the heart of how companies perceive the markets they are in, how they organize themselves and how they approach business opportunities. Harbor Research's extensive analysis provides clients an unparalleled perspective on the impact of integrating networked devices into the business process.
Smart Services Forum - San Francisco Feb. 14-15 2007
Shifting
from a product-centric to a service-centric organization calls for
focused leadership, innovation and alliance building as part of a
general strategy. Learn directly from product OEMs who have
successfully made the transition. This two-day conference will feature
content-rich sessions and interactive workshops conducted by Harbor
staff and industry leaders.
Hear speakers from Abbott Diagnostics, Air Products and Chemicals, Cimetrics,
Invensys, Panasonic, Wavecom, MAYA Design, Cisco Systems and more.
Contact or call 800.595.9368 x23
for more information. Workshops will have limited space so
make plans as soon as possible. Two-day pass including afternoon
workshops on both days: $1,500 ($1,200 prior to Dec. 31)
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The
scope of our research covers the significant technologies and addresses
all the major venues that comprise the M2M/Pervasive Internet arena. We
see this growth occurring in 8 principal market Venues – Buildings,
Energy, Industrial, Healthcare/Life Sciences, Retail, Transportation, Security/Public
Safety and Consumer/Professional. Each of these venues is analyzed
according to customer segments, application groups and down to the
device segments themselves. As a result, Harbor Research monitors
the M2M-PI opportunity for over 300 different device types across both
Wireless and Wireline technologies, and in all regions worldwide.
An annual business intelligence service focused on the revolutionary
impact of Internet-based machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies. The
service combines briefings, subscription to all publications,
conference attendance, access to Harbor's online SmartSphere knowledge
base and personal contact with Harbor analysts.
Program Design
Our program consists of the five Research Modules shown below. Clients
are given the ability to tailor their own package to suit the needs of
their organization.
Modules
• Briefings & Workshops
• Research Publications
• Analyst Interaction
• SmartSphere Access
• Conference Attendance
Download a Brochure
Our “Pervasive Internet Retainer Service” brochure is in the Harbor collateral section of the site’s Downloads area (PDF, 4.6 MB).
See our download section for free access to Harbor's article
in the October issue of the Harvard Business Review.
Most industrial manufacturers realize that the real money
isn't in products but in services. Companies such as General Electric and IBM
have famously made the transition: A large proportion of their revenues and
margins come from providing value-added services to customers. But other
companies attempting to do the same might miss the boat. It is not enough, the
authors say, just to provide services. Businesses must now provide "smart
services"--building intelligence (awareness and connectivity) into the products
themselves.
Citing examples such as Heidelberger Druckmaschinen's
Internet-connected printing presses and Eaton Electrical's home-monitoring
service, the authors demonstrate how a product that can report its status back
to its maker represents an opportunity for the manufacturer to cultivate
richer, longer term relationships with customers. Four business models will
emerge in this new, networked world. If you go it alone, it may be as an
embedded innovator--that is, your networked product sends back information that
can help you optimize service delivery, eliminate waste and inefficiency, and
raise service margins.
Log-in to SmartSphere® or visit the free demo (requires Flash 7). A new kind of business research experience. Harbor
SmartSphere® is our new online, interactive multimedia platform for
delivering continually updated intelligence and stunning
data-visualization.
We use SmartSphere® to build “Living Business Intelligence”™ projects that track activity in high-technology growth areas.
Static research can’t track the complex ecosystems and warp-speed pace of high technology. SmartSphere® projects can. Visit our free SmartSphere® demo (requires the latest version of Flash).
Energy Venue Report. The first in a series of our venue reports is now available. These reports cover the structure,
forces and scenarios of Pervasive Internet and Smart Services
activities within these venues (Energy, Buildings, Healthcare/Life Sciences,
Security/Public Safety, Transportation, Consumer, Industrial and
Retail).
Download a brochure of the Energy Venue Report for detailed information on this new publication.
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