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Accelerating Digital Transformation Through Employee Experience
By Michael Rivera, PhD For most companies, enhancing customer experience has been the primary end goal for digital transformation. Businesses want to differentiate themselves in the market using Machine Learning (ML) to gather and analyze data. IoT solutions then help...
What Data is Powering Your Digital Transformation?
By Michael Rivera, PhD What companies come to mind when you hear the word “data?” For many people, data is directly correlated with tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Facebook. These companies heavily rely on user data for advertising and marketing. The data...
Understanding IoT’s Impact on the 4 Tiers of Digital Transformation
By Michael Rivera, PhD Digital technologies offer a vast array of possibilities, making digital transformation the best way to prepare your company for the future. Unfortunately, the biggest challenge for enterprises is not having a comprehensive knowledge of what...
Making a case for IoT and Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Management
By Michael Rivera, PhD Several internal and external factors contribute to the risk in global supply chains. Some of these are major trends, like globalization and global connectivity, making global supply chains more complex. Others are rooted in the continuous...
Capturing the Massive Economic Potentials of the Internet of Things
By Michael Rivera, PhD Since its inception, the Internet of Things has been projected to bring colossal changes and provide radical solutions to many operations. Although it hasn’t reached its full potential, these projections aren’t far from the truth. IoT solutions...
Leveraging Industrial IoT to Generate Value for Manufacturing Companies
By Michael Rivera, PhD Manufacturers face new challenges with each passing day. Increased customer expectations such as demand for customization and the complexities in the global supply chain have led manufacturers to seek more innovative ways to stay competitive....
How to Fix Data Overload in Healthcare With Predictive Analytics
By Michael Rivera, PhD Healthcare professionals deal with large amounts of data daily. They sift through big data like medical history, the rate of patients suffering from an illness, health survey data, and treatment trends. And most times, this data is too complex...
IoT in Healthcare: Shaping the Future of Healthcare Delivery
By Michael Rivera, PhD Patients' interactions with doctors were once limited to visits. Then it moved to phone calls and text messages. There was no way for medics or hospitals to regularly assess patients' health and make recommendations. Due to the increasing need...
Internet of Things in the Healthcare System: Solving Healthcare Challenges With IoT
By Michael Rivera, PhD As health technology progresses, healthcare systems are prioritizing investment to digitize their facilities and enable integrated care models. Better patient outcomes require remote treatment and real-time health statistics. The present...
Internet of Things in Aerospace and Aviation: Transformative Impact
IoT is a new technology that many sectors have adopted as a component of their digital transformation strategy. IoT technologies provide data sensing, tracking, monitoring, and capturing capabilities that enable real-time visibility into operational activities and...
How IoT and Data Analytics Can Drive Digital Transformation
Advanced digital technologies, such as the Internet of Things and Data Analytics, will boost production, enhance efficiency, and open up new business opportunities, all of which are critical for economic recovery. For example, to improve corporate operations, massive...
Industrial IoT: The Trends to Watch in 2022
By Michael Rivera, PhD The Industrial Internet of Things market continues to grow at an impressive pace. It was worth north of $77 billion in 2020 and is expected to post a CAGR of 7.4% to reach over $110 billion by 2025. The COVID19 pandemic has accelerated the shift...
Is Your C-Suite Capable of Driving Digital Transformation at Your Company?
By Michael Rivera, PhD A recent study from Twilio estimates that companies across industries accelerated their digital strategies by six years due to the swift pivot from in-person to remote work during the pandemic. In addition, 77 percent of CEOs say the pandemic...
Why do so many digital transformation initiatives fail?
By Michael Rivera, PhD As manufacturing firms, we have approached digital transformation initiatives with more tools, technology, and know-how than ever before. Innovations in technology and processes range from industrial IoT (IIoT) location tracking to AI-powered...
Innovation Research Interchange (IRI) Announces Thinaer as Research Grant Recipient
Thinaer receives grant to research cultural changes needed for digital transformation and will collaborate with and present to the IRI membership of the world’s leading manufacturing companies. Richardson, TX – March 31, 2022: Thinaer announced today the receipt...
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