The Millennial generation will be the largest traveler population in history. The airline industry has the opportunity to become an “innovation orchestrator” that conducts the convergence of many technological forces.

The Iowa Caucus software debacle has left the public wondering: Is our smart future based on complex collections of code that are ultimately unverifiable?

End-of-year “trends” stories are seductive, but they ignore the underlying combinatorial forces that are the real drivers of the future.

Executives spent 30 years making their businesses as lean as possible. In their zeal, they vacuumed up all the innovation spending.

“Real-time” networking was always for high-value applications that required precise timing and synchronization. It’s now about to spread into everything.

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 intelligence (AI) in a comprehensive offering that better enables manufacturing and services industry workers to perform their jobs. Augmentir leapfrogs the current Enterprise AR…

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 partners. It goes without saying that such a culture does not blend well with the notions of openness, transparency, and trust.

To date, most of the successful platform businesses are “consumer” or “user” focused. Fewer B2B markets have embraced this type of business model. We predict this will soon change. Freight logistics, genetic sequencing, order management, and asset management are examples of new beachheads for platform models in the B2B sector.

Fathym is uniquely positioned at the intersection of these three evolutions: batched, wireless, and embedded. None of their competitors has been able to bend their story away from the supply-side technical development cultures, and this prevents them from clearly seeing this future. Fathym’s value is rooted in helping businesses evolve,…

As more and more companies delve into developing smart systems, they are quickly finding that competitive differentiation shifts away from unique, vertically focused product features. The new focus will be on how the product is actually used—how it fosters interactions between and among users in a networked context.