Second, consolidation pressures will be amplified in industries whose boundaries are expanding. Adding enhanced capabilities and options can reach the point of diminishing returns, due to the cost and complexity of use. To view or add a comment, sign in A closed approach requires significant investment and works best when a single manufacturer has a dominant position in the industry that can be leveraged to control the supply of all parts of the smart, connected product system. In a November 2014 article, "How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition," Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and PTC president and CEO James Heppelmann looked at how this shift is changing the structure of industries and forcing firms to rethink their strategies. Navigating the world of smart, connected products requires that companies understand these rules better than ever. Similarly, digital user interfaces can replace dials and buttons, making it easy and less expensive to modify a product by, say, changing control options. Second, complex product operations can be controlled by the users, through numerous remote-access options. Once composed solely of mechanical and electrical parts, products have become complex systems that combine hardware, sensors, data storage, microprocessors, software, and connectivity in myriad ways. 8 The Boston Consulting Group predicts that companies will spend $267 billion on IoT technologies, products and services in 2020. Software companies, especially those in e-commerce, have long understood the power of data analytics in generating customer value. This path has resulted in slower job growth, slower improvements in wages and living standards for the average citizen, a diminished sense of economic opportunity, doubts about capitalism, and reduced public support for business. This leads to deeper rela- smart, connected Babolat, for example, has produced tennis rackets and related equipment for 140 years. This opens up important new requirements and opportunities for marketing and sales. Product quality and features need to be supplemented by interoperability with related products. Those tools fall into four categories: descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive. IT hardware and software are now embedded in products and in the entire technology stack. They will be customized and designed for security. As products become components of larger systems, the customer value proposition broadens. Carrier Corporation offers an example of these choices. Many service industries, including airlines, hospitality, health care, and financial services, rely on products that will become smart and connected. Today centralized data groups are just beginning to appear, and the integration of IT and R&D is in a very early stage. Information technology is revolutionizing products. Some companies are embedding IT teams within R&D departments. Product-as-a-service business models, for example, allow users to have full access to a product but pay only for the amount of product they use. These products also enable firms to tailor offerings to more-specific segments of the market, and even customize products for individual customers, further enhancing differentiation and price realization. For example, while software skills are not well developed in most manufacturing companies, Jeff Immelt recently said that every industrial company will become a software company. The nature of technology for smart, connected products makes it clear why that might well be true and why building internal software capability is crucial. In addition, smart, connected products allow firms to reduce their dependency on distribution or service partners, or even disintermediate them, thereby capturing more profit. Closed systems create competitive advantage by allowing a company to control and optimize the design of all parts of the system relative to one another. There are also various levels of usage rights, including NDAs, the right to share the data, or the right to sell it. Smart, connected products generate new data flows. Smart Connected products will need enabling infrastructure, compliance, etc Are we there ? The productivity of activities dramatically increased, in part because huge amounts of new data could be captured and analyzed in each activity. Smart, connected products require companies to build and support an entirely new technology infrastructure. For example, Thermo Fishers TruDefender FTi chemical analyzer added connectivity to a product that already had smart functionality, to enable chemical analysis from hazardous environments to be transmitted to users and mitigation to begin without having to wait for the machine and personnel to be decontaminated. And each turbine can be adjusted to not only improve its performance but minimize its impact on the efficiency of those nearby. A fully open system enables any entity to participate in and interface with the system. By eliminating third-party involvement in repairs, Tesla captures revenue and deepens its relationship with customers. The new technology stack needed to build and support smart, connected products, operations, and applications, Four capability areas of smart products, The IoT's effect on Porter's famous five forces of competition, Redefinition of industry boundaries, and 10 strategic choices posed by the industrial IoT. They can also have supporting information for executing the repairs. Porter, Michael E This led to the standardization of processes across companiesand raised a dilemma for companies about how to capture ITs operational benefits while maintaining distinctive strategies. Smart, connected products require a fundamental rethinking of design. Finally, rivalry among competitors can also increase as smart, connected products become part of broader product systems, a trend we will discuss further. The organizational model needs to change, and most companies do not understand this yet. This will require new authentication processes, secure storage of product data, protections against hackers for both product data and customer data, definition and control of access privileges, and protections for products themselves from hackers and unauthorized use. It has a 100-year history of innovation in the design of a full range of HVAC equipment such as furnaces, air conditioners, heat pumps, humidifiers, and ventilators. Smart, connected products dramatically expand opportunities for product differentiation, moving competition away from price alone. Using data analytics tools, firms can segment their markets in more-sophisticated ways, tailor product and service bundles that deliver greater value to each segment, and price those bundles to capture more of that value. Real-time monitoring data on product condition and product control capability enables firms to optimize service by performing preventative maintenance when failure is imminent and accomplishing repairs remotely, thereby reducing product downtime and the need to dispatch repair personnel. Information technology is revolutionizing products. The real transformation is when smart, connected products are brought together into a connected "product system " where the smart, connected tractor is integrated with other farm. In other cases, stand-alone units may deter, rather than enable, initiatives in the individual business units. Companies may also need to obtain rights to the data, adding complexity and cost. Companies must identify a clear value proposition before entering. The Internet of Things Will Produce Distinct Winners and Losers. Because of these new products, we are poised to make great progress in environmental stewardshipsubstantially increasing the efficiency of land, water, and materials use, as well as energy efficiency and the productivity of the food system. Will the data help the company understand and improve how the broader product system is performing over time? GE has such a center of excellence in Silicon Valley. Are you able to foresee there changes? The signs are simply devices through which traffic management services are customized and delivered. In Part-2 we will Summarize the Transforming of Companies. To view or add a comment, sign in As per Porter The net effect of smart, connected products will be different in every industry, but across the board the nature of competition will change. Such as. Dev-ops and customer success management units are rare, but their roles are starting to be recognized and differentiated. Commercialized in the 1990s, radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags greatly enhanced the ability to track shipments. Third, the combination of monitoring data and remote-control capability creates new opportunities for optimization. What data must the company capture, secure, and analyze to maximize the value of its offering? The CDO is spearheading the companys use of smart, connected product data to understand customer preferences, shape future strategies for connected cars, and restructure internal processes. Differentiated functionality moving competition away from price alone, Moving from ownership models,to product as a service business models or product-sharing services model will impact structure, Industries with high fixed cost structures are vulnerable to price pressure as firms seek to spread their fixed costs across a larger number of units sold. However, in many industries smart, connected products create new types of substitution threats, such as wider product capabilities that subsume conventional products. Smart, connected capabilities make such substitutions for full ownership possible. Smart, connected products also create opportunities to broaden the value proposition beyond products per se, to include valuable data and enhanced service offerings. Because the products themselves often have limited processing power, they cannot support modern security hardware and software. And because a manufacturer remains connected to customers via the product, it has a new basis for direct and ongoing dialogue with them. Competitors such as Bose will make different choices and trade-offs to secure their competitive differentiation. Consider SmartThings, which sells in the increasingly crowded do-it-yourself home-automation space. Organizational structures are in rapid flux, even among the leading makers of smart, connected products. Even when on-site repair is required, advance information about what is broken, what parts are needed, and how to accomplish the fix reduces service costs and improves first-time fix rates. Smart, connected products open major new gateways to corporate systems and data, requiring stepped-up network security, device and sensor security, and information encryption. The R&D and dev-ops teams will take the lead on reducing vulnerabilities in the physical product. Products will be designed to be part of systems and have evergreen design so they can be continuously services and upgraded, with product usage data enabling rapid redesign. Monitoring Smart, connected products enable users to do comprehensive monitoring of a product's operations, condition and external environment. Similarly, manufacturers of aircraft, automobiles, and boats are moving toward glass cockpits, in which a single screen displays numerous configurable gauges. In this article well explore their internal implications: how the nature of smart, connected products substantially changes the work of virtually every function within the manufacturing firm. Product sharing, a variation of the product-as-a-service model, focuses on more efficient utilization of products that are used intermittently. Data from sensors that measure heat and vibration, for example, can predict an impending bearing failure days or weeks in advance. Manufacturing has evolved toward standardized platforms, with customization of individual products occurring later and later in the assembly process. How Joy Global's smart, connected heavy machinery optimizes mine performance and safety.. Smart, Connected Products Have Significant Implications for Corporate Strategy: New Industry Boundaries and Systems of Systems. Such insights can prevent customer defections and reveal where a customer could benefit from additional product capabilities or services. At the most fundamental level, companies must ask four questions: 1. This requires a rethinking of "what business am I actually in?" and Porter gives a set of 10 key strategic choices to navigate this question. It performs the necessary maintenance remotely, if possible, or dispatches a technician to adjust or replace parts. Customers must take delivery of and sometimes install a physical product, and some types of service visits are still necessary. The organizational changes we have described are substantial. Agile product-development processeswhich emphasize daily collaboration between developers and marketers, weekly delivery of enhancements, continual course corrections, and ongoing testing of customer satisfactionare best practice in software development. The need to coordinate across product design, cloud operation, service improvement, and customer engagement is continuous and never ends, even after the sale. 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