transitar da era da chapa mais minutos para Mongo

Li este artigo "The Internet of Things Will Change Your Company, Not Just Your Products" ontem de manhã, enquanto fazia horas para entrar numa empresa.
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Depois, de tarde, ao ser ultrapassado por uma carrinha de uma empresa de Vale de Cambra, que conheci numa outra vida, que faz reservatórios metálicos, voltei mentalmente ao artigo:

"The resulting GlowCap offering provides continuous, real-time communication to users and caregivers via a wireless connection. Changes in light and sound indicate when it’s time to take medication. Weight sensors in the pill cylinders indicate when the medication has been removed. Accounts can be set so that text notifications or a phone call are sent if a dose is missed. By pushing a button on the device, an individual can easily order a refill from his or her pharmacy. Weekly e-mails with detailed reports can also be set up, creating a comprehensive system of medication management."

E pensei nas "loucuras", no bom sentido, que se podem incorporar num "bom velho reservatório", para transitar da era da chapa mais minutos para a era da chapa mais minutos, mais sensores, mais apps, mais ... mais Mongo.

É meter código nisso e os novos modelos de negócio (parte I)

" For more than a century General Electric made most of its revenue by selling industrial hardware and repair services. But in recent years GE was at increasing risk of losing many of its top customers to nontraditional competitors - IBM and SAP on the one hand, and big-data start-ups on the other. Those competitors aimed to shift the customer value proposition away from acquiring reliable industrial equipment [Moi ici: Fugir da oferta pura e simples do produto e pensar no serviço, no resultado que os clientes procuram... sim, é meter código nisso] to deriving new efficiencies and other benefits through advanced analytics and algorithms based on the data generated by that equipment. The trend threatened to turn GE into a commodity equipment provider.
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In 2011 GE responded with a multibillion-dollar initiative focused on what it calls the industrial internet. The company is adding digital sensors to its machines, connecting them to a common, cloud-based software platform, investing in modern software development capabilities, building advanced analytics capabilities, and embracing crowdsourced product development. All this is transforming the company’s business model. Now revenue from its jet engines, for example, is tied not to a simple sales transaction but to performance improvements: less downtime and more miles flown over the course of a year. Such digitally enabled, outcomes-based approaches helped GE generate more than $800 million in incremental income in 2013; the company expects that number to reach at least $1 billion in 2014 and again in 2015."

Trechos retirados de "Digital Ubiquity: How Connections, Sensors, and Data Are Revolutionizing Business"
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Continua.

É meter código nisso, vai bater à porta da sua empresa

Um extenso artigo de Michael Porter, "How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition", sobre os temas que aqui escrevemos quando usamos as frases:

• é meter código nisso;
• "the Internet on crystal meth";
• IoE;
• IoT;

"Information technology is revolutionizing products. 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. These “smart, connected products”—made possible by vast improvements in processing power and device miniaturization and by the network benefits of ubiquitous wireless connectivity—have unleashed a new era of competition.
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These new types of products alter industry structure and the nature of competition, exposing companies to new competitive opportunities and threats. They are reshaping industry boundaries and creating entirely new industries. In many companies, smart, connected products will force the fundamental question, “What business am I in?”
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Smart, connected products raise a new set of strategic choices related to how value is created and captured, how the prodigious amount of new (and sensitive) data they generate is utilized and managed, how relationships with traditional business partners such as channels are redefined, and what role companies should play as industry boundaries are expanded.
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What makes smart, connected products fundamentally different is not the internet, but the changing nature of the “things.” It is the expanded capabilities of smart, connected products and the data they generate that are ushering in a new era of competition. Companies must look beyond the technologies themselves to the competitive transformation taking place."

Para forte reflexão, recomendo:

"Some have suggested that the internet of things “changes everything,” but that is a dangerous oversimplification. As with the internet itself, smart, connected products reflect a whole new set of technological possibilities that have emerged. But the rules of competition and competitive advantage remain the same. Navigating the world of smart, connected products requires that companies understand these rules better than ever." 

Cuidado com a Lei de Murphy...

Lições para PMEs

"some startups are finding that it’s easier to build products locally because the design-and-testing cycles are much tighter.
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"We can iterate much faster here,” said co-founder Lisa Fetterman. “China is great if you have your design down pat. But if you’re creating something new that nobody’s ever seen before, you need to rapidly prototype.”
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While the Chinese market is great for mass producing thousands or hundreds of thousands of units of a product, it’s less great for customization and small runs."

Um pouco a lição do esquema de Lolly

Lição para os subcontratados portugueses que querem subir na escala de valor, procurar clientes que estejam numa de fast-to-market, numa de fast-iterations.
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BTW, uma lição para uma empresa pioneira em Portugal, nas panelas de pressão, a Silampos. Uma coisa é alargar o âmbito do que fazemos, entrando em mercados onde se servem diferentes tipos de clientes. Outra coisa é mergulhar a fundo na relação com os clientes e procurar seguir a evolução. Sim, uma velha receita deste blogue: Metam código nisso!!!


Trechos retirados de "Lean Hardware Strategy Lets Kickstarter Breakout Nomiku ‘In-Shore’ Manufacturing Back To The U.S.".

Meter código nisso com batota misturada

Via André Cruz tive acesso a "Kinematix encomenda "faixas" a campeões ingleses de râguebi".
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Um texto que nos remete para:

• A série "É meter código nisso!";
• A série ""the Internet on crystal meth" e Mongo";
• A interacção entre fornecedor e cliente;
• A venda consultiva e os consultores compra;
• A evolução do retalho físico e a aposta na batota

E, numa vertente muito pessoal, ele também sabe que eu preciso deste serviço, para minimizar as lesões geradas pelo calçado inadequado e incorrecta postura de corrida.

""este é o único equipamento que permite obter informação dentro do sapato".  
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"Hoje o calçado desportivo é muito técnico ou segmentado e isto permite, numa questão de minutos, comparar vários pares de sapatos e ter um resultado muito visual sobre quais são os mais equilibrados, por exemplo, para a sua forma de correr", explicou."

Mais exemplos de "é meter código nisso!"

Na sequência de "Outra vez: É meter código nisso!" dois exemplos no calçado:

• "Novos ténis vão indicar o caminho"
• "Ténis inteligentes monitorizam desempenho dos corredores em tempo real"

Outra vez: "É meter código nisso!"

Recordando "Mais um exemplo do "é meter código nisso"" sorri logo ao ler "Smart. O copo que vai mudar o mundo dos vinhos":

"a equipa do Adegga, uma rede social que reúne referências, marcas e avaliações de vinhos, acaba de apresentar o Smart Wine Glass, um copo de vinho com memória.
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“A ideia de associar a um copo de vinho uma memória portátil que é automaticamente transportada para uma memória digital surgiu de uma necessidade. Foi, no fundo, uma tentativa de encontrar solução para um problema nosso”, explica André Ribeirinho, cofundador da Adegga, uma rede social de consumidores de vinhos que já deu origem a um mercado português de vinhos - entretanto exportado para Bruxelas, Copenhaga e Munique.
A equipa do Adegga começou a pensar numa alternativa aos tradicionais blocos de apontamentos no início de 2013 mas recusava avançar sem primeiro testar a ideia num evento próprio."

Mais um exemplo do "é meter código nisso"

Na continuação de, por exemplo:

• A propósito do "é meter código nisso"
• the Internet on crystal meth" e Mongo (parte VII)

Mais um exemplo do "é meter código nisso", "This Bike Helmet Maps Your Stress On City Rides"

A propósito do "é meter código nisso"

A propósito da série e do desafio de "meter código nisso"

"Who is my growth customer?.
As basic as it sounds, the first step in understanding customer needs is identifying your real customer. Although attracting early adopters is essential for early success and encouraging virality, growth customers - the people who are likely to buy the next generation of products - are crucial for building a sustainable business.
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What problem am I actually solving?.
With the growth customer identified, the next step is to develop a strong understanding of the problem to solve, especially through exploratory research with potential users. Traditionally, designers have promoted ethnographic approaches with extreme users, while Lean Startup practitioners advocate for just “getting out of the building.” In either case, the general logic is the same: go talk to some real people. Understanding which problem is especially important in IoT: as advances are made in computing power, battery life, and network infrastructure over time, the problem a company is focused on solving provides a North Star for evolving the product roadmap and the overarching business, too.
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How is this better than analog?.
Through sensors and the cloud, connected devices allow companies to build experiences that have a richer interaction and more meaningful connection with the customer, his or her devices, and the environment around them. But that direct relationship requires the voluntary exchange of personal data and some loss of anonymity – and the benefit of that exchange in value must be clear to users."

Trechos retirados de "Do People Really Want Smarter Toothbrushes?"

Curiosidade do dia

"the capitalist era is passing - not quickly, but inevitably. The emerging Internet of Things is giving rise to a new economic system - the Collaborative Commons - that will transform our way of life.
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Rifkin describes how hundreds of millions of people are already transferring parts of their economic lives from capitalist markets to what he calls the global “Collaborative Commons.” “Prosumers” are making and sharing their own information, entertainment, green energy, and 3-D printed products at near zero marginal cost. They are also sharing cars, homes, clothes and other items via social media sites, rentals, redistribution clubs, and cooperatives at low or near zero marginal cost. Students are even enrolling in free massive open online courses (MOOCs) that operate at near zero marginal cost. And young social entrepreneurs are establishing ecologically sensitive businesses using crowdfunding as well as creating alternative currencies in the new sharing economy. In this new world, social capital is as important as finance capital, access trumps ownership, cooperation supersedes competition, and “exchange value” in the capitalist marketplace is increasingly replaced by “sharable value” on the Collaborative Commons.
Rifkin concludes that while capitalism will be with us for the foreseeable future, albeit in an increasingly diminished role, it will not be the dominant economic paradigm by the second half of the 21st Century. We are, Rifkin says, entering a world beyond markets where we are learning how to live together in an increasingly interdependent global Collaborative Commons."

Em sintonia com o que se escreve neste blogue há anos... e é isto que vai minar a Torre de Babel burocrática-fiscal em que vivemos.

Trecho retirado de "Zero Marginal Cost Society"

"the Internet on crystal meth" e Mongo (parte VII)

O futuro é meter código no que já existe...
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Por exemplo, no que vestimos e usamos como adorno, "Fashion Designers Are Finally Getting Serious About Wearable Devices"
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Por que será que Angela Ahrendts  vai para a Apple?

Não deixe a sua empresa ser apanhada na curva

"What business are you in?  It seems like a straightforward question, and one that should take no time to answer.  But the truth is that most company leaders are too narrow in defining their competitive landscape or market space.  They fail to see the potential for “non-traditional” competitors, and therefore often misperceive their basic business definition and future market space."

O mesmo tema do artigo que Theodore Levitt escreveu em 1960, "Marketing Myopia"?

"Getting your business definition and competitor set right requires two things: first, an understanding of who your customer is, and second, an honest view of both the high level and detailed use-case problem you are solving for them.
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Today, that kind of world-changing innovation seems to be happening faster and faster.  New megatrends are fundamentally altering market dynamics and business definitions.  These trends include the share economy, crowdsourcing, the mobile and tablet revolution, Big Data, and what I sense will be perhaps the most disruptive of all to business definitions — the Internet of things."

Daí ser fundamental pensar:

"So the critical question for businesses to ask — more now than ever — is not what business you are in today, but what business you should be in tomorrow." 

 Tanto fabricante de coisas que vai ser apanhado na curva por Mongo, por causa da redução de consumo promovida pela economia do aluguer e artilha, por causa da entrada do código nas coisas mais comezinhas, por causa do retorno do semi-industrial. (Ainda ontem à noite, no canal História, fiquei a pensar, ao ver o programa "Restauradores", no valor sentimental que as pessoas atribuem a algo que fez parte da sua vida, ou dos seus familiares, no passado. Em Mongo, porque não o mesmo tipo de envolvimento com algo que vai fazer parte da sua vida no futuro?)

Trechos retirados de "The First Strategic Question Every Business Must Ask"

Esperança num futuro diferente

Estes "novos judeus" dão-me alguma esperança no futuro:

"Economic and social shifts have provided added momentum for startups. The prolonged economic crisis that began in 2008 has caused many millennials - people born since the early 1980s - to abandon hope of finding a conventional job, so it makes sense for them to strike out on their own or join a startup.
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A lot of millennials are not particularly keen on getting a “real” job anyway. According to a recent survey of 12,000 people aged between 18 and 30 in 27 countries, more than two-thirds see opportunities in becoming an entrepreneur. That signals a cultural shift. “Young people see how entrepreneurship is doing great things in other places and want to give it a try,” notes Jonathan Ortmans of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which organises an annual Global Entrepreneurship Week."

Trecho retirado de "A Cambrian moment" (que título mais delicioso)

"the Internet on crystal meth" e Mongo (parte VI)

O futuro é meter código no que já existe...

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Palavras verdadeiramente proféticas.

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Este "Tile", para mim, é um caso de amor à primeira vista "Bluetooth 'Tile' allows you to find lost keys, bikes, dogs, anything really"

"the Internet on crystal meth" e Mongo (parte V)

Na senda de "O futuro pode muito bem passar por meter código naquilo que já existe (parte II)" este exemplo, "Universidade de Aveiro cria rolha com 'chip' que revela o histórico do vinho"
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BTW, recordando a parte IV desta série... alguma ingenuidade em:

"Desde logo serve de travão à falsificação de rótulos, pelo que poderá interessar aos próprios produtores, mas também aos restaurantes que, assim, se certificam de que as garrafas armazenadas que servem a um cliente estão em perfeitas condições e com os níveis de qualidade que ele espera."

Eheheh, como se não fosse possível manipular os dados...

Imaginem...

Há dias, nesta "Curiosidade do dia" propunha que em vez de inglês, no 3º ano, os miúdos aprendessem código de programação.
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Hoje, descubro isto "Hello Ruby"
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Imaginem, miúdos de 10 anos a já saberem fazer aplicações para Android, por exemplo...

"the Internet on crystal meth" e Mongo (parte VI)

Recordar a parte IV.
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Depois, ler "For The First Time, Hackers Have Used A Refrigerator To Attack Businesses"

Now we're talking (parte V)

Parte I, parte II, parte III e parte IV.
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"Hobbyists are now building tablets using a $35 computer brain"
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"Dear Santa: Consumers Prefer DIY Products"

"Consumers value a product more highly when they make it themselves—but only if the assembly procedure is structured in a way that allows them to make creative decisions throughout the process."

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"Will 3-D Printing Cause Traditional Manufacturing to Collapse?"

"Through the Industrial Research Institute’s foresights study — IRI2038 — several plausible scenarios of the future of R&D were explored. In one scenario, traditional manufacturing collapses under the strain placed on it by 3-D printing and heightened speed-to-market practices and is largely replaced by local manufacturing networks."

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"Why the Real World Will Matter More in 2014" ?????

"From making your own soup bowls to redesigning flawed windshield wipers, many of us are beginning to hear stories about everyday consumer uses for 3D scanners and printers. With these applications we see a vanishing distance—literal and cognitive—between manufacturing and consumer need. From the new vantage point of the burgeoning “maker movement,” we perceive ourselves as a one-person supply chain: in-shoring happens right in our own basement.
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Perceptions will shift most dramatically in entrepreneurship, where 3D printing is making it easier to quickly realize ideas, prototype, gain feedback, and loosen the  grip of traditional firms on producing material things.
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Entrepreneurs who don’t want to buy a 3D printer can always try out one of the new DIY fabrication studios popping up."

"The Real Opportunity in 3D Printing: Content"

"the Internet on crystal meth" e Mongo (parte V)

Parte IV.
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Recordar o que escrevi na parte I e comparar com isto "The Rise of the Subscription Economy":

"A profound shift in consumers' spending habits, in which goods are repackaged as services, is well underway and has the potential to fundamentally reshape the rhythm of the American economy.
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Increasingly, thanks to companies like Amazon, even goods like groceries promise to be consumed more like subscriptions. One can now arrange for recurring monthly deliveries of cereals or diapers."

Associei logo isto à minha leitura desta manhã no comboio:

"Human beings are trained to be sensitive to the pain of paying money out of our pocket. This means that even when a process involves only metaphorical money - like a credit card or a storecard - some of the pain effect still carries over. However, when the cost is instead absorbed into a place where you are relatively insensitive to small changes in value - your monthly phone bill - the pain goes away."

Trecho retirado de "The Psycology of Price" de Leigh Caldwell

"the Internet on crystal meth" e Mongo (parte IV)

A propósito da série ""the Internet on crystal meth" e Mongo (parte III)" e "O futuro pode muito bem passar por meter código naquilo que já existe (parte II)" várias pessoas ontem, via Twitter, enviaram-me artigos com o dark side:

• "Trouble looms in Internet-of-Things"
• "The Internet of Things Is Wildly Insecure — And Often Unpatchable"
• "Smart TVs, smart fridges, smart washing machines? Disaster waiting to happen"

Vertentes importantes a ter em conta no processo evolutivo.