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The OEM Software Paradox
Software will play the leading role in machine-equipment, device-focused systems, and OEM businesses. Should players buy, build or partner?
Proverbs for the Paranoid
We take an alternative view of technology trends and futures, looking at data, open source, partner ecosystems, Web3, blockchain, AI and more
Designing the Future of Smart Cities Infrastructure
OEMs need to adopt a broader view of non-traditional growth opportunities. These can include emergent innovations that threaten the core business, as well as opportunities to collaborate with customers and partners on new solutions.
Corporate Bumblebees
OEMs need to adopt a broader view of non-traditional growth opportunities. These can include emergent innovations that threaten the core business, as well as opportunities to collaborate with customers and partners on new solutions.
Orchestrating the Digital Future of Air Travel
Innovation Orchestrators will direct the next evolution of air travel, which will rely on digital technologies and collaborative ecosystems
Infrastructure Goes Digital
Tomorrow’s infrastructure combines physical with digital to power a digital nervous system, enhanced connectivity and smart micro grids.
Intelligent Development
With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), data management and DevEx are being reimagined.
Future Perfect Design
Powerful distributed technologies are demonstrating the power of decentralized systems and reinventing collaboration and design.
Bits to Atoms
Smart Systems products requires the focus to shift away from unique, vertically focused product features to fostering interactions
In Pursuit of Performance: Private Cellular Networks
Harbor Research’s new report on the private cellular market, including private networks, private LTE and 5G
The Bumpy Road To Smart Systems Adoption
Mitigating Smart Systems Adoption Risk with Innovative Business Models such as Equipment as a Service
Taming Complexity
The adoption of digital twins has been hampered by the absence of an open-source “digital fabric” for integrating connected devices and their data.
System of Systems
The adoption of digital twins has been hampered by the absence of an open-source “digital fabric” for integrating connected devices and their data.
The Great Tech Reckoning
Mass tech layoffs mean big opportunities for “old school” B2B companies. We look at where laid off tech employees are headed next.
The Cold Chain Market is Heating Up
Cold chain and cold storage is hot right now – this Future Perfect Tech podcast episode features Manik Suri, CEO and Founder of Therma
Pervasive Uncertainty
Technologies are evolving exponentially. Harbor provides a guide for the changes to value creation and growth opportunities in 2023 and beyond.
The Pendulum Doth Swing
The pendulum is swinging back to an era of de-centralization and distribution of resources with Web3 and distributed technologies (IoT, edge computing, blockchain and more) leading […]
The Shifting Sands of OEM Value Creation
Value and profitability are playing a new game of hide-and-seek. They’re still there, but not where they used to be. If you keep looking in the […]
Why Do So Many B2B Data Ecosystems Fail?
B2B hardware, services and equipment players have been trying to create ecosystems for quite some time, but the track record has been abysmal. It’s logical to […]
The Next Big Thing is Not a Thing
The technology hype machine has long been accused of racing ahead of reality. And it’s not a lie that all these isolated phenomena—AI, blockchain, nano-medicine, Web3, […]
Complexity and Contention: The Future of Digital Infrastructure
The shift to truly intelligent distributed digital systems requires a new generation of architectural capabilities that are designed from the ground up. As we end the […]
By Invitation Only: New Rules for OEMs
New rules for navigating Smart Systems innovations will force machine and equipment manufacturers to open up their “walled gardens” and embrace open-source software and collaborative developer […]
Software Futures: How and Why Adobe’s Acquisition of Figma Changes Everything Forever
Adobe acquired the design and collaboration platform Figma for $20 billion. The acquisition is the most expensive SaaS multiple ever paid by a public company. Harbor […]
Creating Versus Destroying Value: The Core Technologies that Inform Smart Systems
Note to traditional product and service companies venturing into digital systems and software: Those millions of lines of code communicating on networks are a whole different […]
Growth Strategy in the Age of Smart Systems
Software and digital technologies are displacing physical hardware and replacing labor-intensive services in nearly every market and application imaginable, and it shows no signs of slowing […]
Smart Systems Redux
“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the […]
Catalytic Growth Strategies
Harbor Research helps you navigate innovation and value-driving growth strategy in the age of Smart Systems and the Internet of Things.
$1.9 Trillion and the Net Zero Digital Transformation Revolution
Many governments, companies and industries have made pledges to reach net zero, of carbon neutrality, in the coming years. A seismic shift must occur for industries […]
The Innovation Curve and the Hype Cycle
How can we identify and avoid meme technologies? An R&D company challenged an early-stage company to a race: who could get acquired for more than a […]
Growth Lessons from a Venture Capitalist
“We say the best product wins in the market. I think the best product with the best ecosystems win bigger and faster.” - Jennifer Vancini, general […]
Extended Reality Research Brief
The parallel technological evolutions to Smart Systems and Spatial Computing are driving massive enterprise growth opportunities. Download Harbor Research’s brief on extended reality, augmented reality and mixed reality technologies, markets and opportunities to learn the best path forward for your business.
Distributed Energy Resources Research Brief
Download Harbor Research’s report brief on distributed energy resources technologies, markets and opportunities.
The Future of Smart Hospitals
Hospitals are seeking new ways to improve their productivity and efficiency, while reducing operational costs and improving margins. The speed and scale at which medical device and equipment manufacturers are integrating automation and data analytics into healthcare systems is staggering.
Private Networks for Innovation
New private networks (wireless, 5G, LTE, CBRS) promise growth for business and disruption for the traditional wireless carrier model.
The Emergence of Higher Performance Real-Time Private Networking
Where is real-time, mission-critical networking heading? We believe it’s heading to many more places than most people imagine.
Back to the Future of Information
Each groundbreaking new technology is built on the combination of other innovations. Is Web3 the innovation changing society as we know it?
The Death and Disintegration of Conglomerates
With the announcement of the break-up of the General Electric company, the era of diversified industrial enterprises appears to finally be coming to its end.
Private Networks with Nokia and Verizon Webinar
SPEAKER BIOS Doru Calin heads Nokia’s private wireless in the North America’s market. He leverages his broad expertise on cutting-edge technologies (wireless communications, industrial IoT, digital […]
Open Source is Taking Over the World
Open source software innovations have fundamentally changed software development and realization for enterprises around the world.
Creative Destruction and the Advent of Smart Systems Design
As the physical world continues to dovetail with machine learning and artificial intelligence, Smart Systems will enable previously unimagined capabilities for both the B2B and B2C worlds.
Future Proof Smart Farming
Sensors, robots and drones are transforming the agriculture industry. Can data help farming become more sustainable?
It’s Time To Rethink Approaches to New Growth Ventures
“Business as usual” is no longer enough to successfully grow and innovate. OEMs now need to approach venture growth with a creative combination of “build, buy and partner.”
The Spectacular Failure of Software Growth Strategies
For OEMs, software growth strategy is more complicated than the question of, “Build, buy or partner?” Instead, they should look at a combination of all three.
Moving Smart Home Luddites Forward
The keys to unlocking Smart Home ecosystems and catalyzing adoption lie in better alliances, open data and innovative revenue models.
Chaos, Collaboration and Connected Cars
Connected vehicle OEMs need a partner ecosystem of “strange bedfellows” to become the data orchestrators of connected car innovation.
More Than A Meme: NFTs and the IoT
Non-interoperable systems and monolithic control are over.
Inspired by Nature: The Wild World of Biomimicry
Learn how innovations improve when tech mimics nature, including the “wood wide web,” shark skin swimsuits and much more.
Democratizing Connectivity
Real-time connectivity and innovative services will rule the 21st century.
Smart Buildings Ecosystem Webinar
JOIN US TO EXPLORE AN EXPANDING MARKET Harbor hosted a webinar on the intersection of Smart Buildings and Distributed Energy on June 24th, 2021 from 10-11 […]
Goodbye Smartphone, Hello Spatial Computing
The smartphone will soon be replaced by AR-enabled smart glasses.
Risky Business
In the game of IIoT, relayr is stealing third base with the business model innovation of sharing risk with its customers.
Designing the Future Network of Networks
Neutroon’s NaaS Platform Breaks Carriers’ Lock on 5G.
Analytics Is a Journey
SkyFoundry: Open standards and distributed computing are necessities for a rational technological future.
Emergence of Data Orchestration
Visionary OEMs must become orchestrators of data ecosystems.
Electricity Is the New Gasoline
EV charging stations are the bridge between utility power distribution and electric vehicle power consumption.
Extending Reality Webinar
JOIN US TO EXPLORE AN ENORMOUS OPPORTUNITY This Harbor Research webinar will focus on the evolving technologies and business models driving the Extended Reality market, which […]
Connected Complexity
The adoption of digital twins has been hampered by the absence of an open-source “digital fabric” for integrating connected devices and their data.
The Big Chill
Thanks to COVID-19, supply chains have become more complex and cold chains have become increasingly critical.
The Physical Gets Metaphysical
Ready or not, we are hurtling into distributed systems and intelligence.
The Real Edge
Privacy is now vying with latency and real-time requirements as the main driver of edge computing.
Widows and Orphans
The IoT needs a single, unified standard for integrating data from sensors and devices of all types, both at the edge and in the core.
Shared Smart Building Destinies
Smart building suppliers lose value by seeing the opportunity through the lens of aging business models and practices.
Extending Reality: Computing’s Next Incarnation
Extended Reality for the enterprise is about to arrive.
Chaos, Coordination, and Creative Evolution for OEMs
We need to give up on the idea that the IT and Telco players will solve very much of anything and start relying on a new generation of innovators.
Covid and the IoT: A Love Story
In most industries we now have vast amounts of data but little integration into our business systems.
Getting to the Promised Land of Digital Innovation
OEM strategists must imagine the new landscape they will inhabit.
OEM Software Webinar Replay
Rapidly evolving software development and dissemination patterns are radically disrupting the traditional business and revenue models to which OEMs have long been accustomed. EXPLORING AN ENORMOUS […]
God, Guns and Software
Making the “shift to Smart Services” sounds tame but it is actually quite foreign to most OEMs and technology providers.
Emerging Developer Communities
The days of the monolithic app are ending and being replaced by micro re-usable software components.
Smart Industrial Systems
New technologies are reshaping how manufacturing businesses engage with customers and compete. Over the next decade, these technologies will propel innovations that will change the ways we design, work, produce and learn.
Future Proof Computing Lives at the Edge
Distributed systems and edge computing is changing the way the world thinks about how future systems will be architected, but the world has become so dependent […]
Future Perfect Travel
Airlines can become an “innovation orchestrator” for a new travel industry ecosystem.
Mountains of Money
Executives spent 30 years making their businesses as lean as possible. In their zeal, they vacuumed up all the innovation spending.
Augmentir: Transforming Industry with AI-driven Augmented Operations
Harbor Research was recently given the opportunity to examine a new software platform that takes a refreshingly new approach to integrating augmented reality (AR) and artificial […]
We Share Because We Care: Data Ecosystems
In the conservative culture of most manufacturing-based businesses, competitive advantage is usually perceived to lie in ownership, secrecy, control, and sometimes adversarial relationships with suppliers and […]
The Future of High-Performance Networks
We’ve been speaking professionally about pervasive computing and the Internet of Things since the late 1990s when most people in business had no idea what we […]