Interesting Reads – 2018-09-01
Contents
Articles
- A Strategist’s Guide to Industry 4.0
- The Untold Story Of Notpetya, The Most Devastating Cyberattack In History
- This Simple Chart Can Help Your Team Make Better Decisions Faster
- Autonomous Shipping And What It Means For Global Trade
- 10 Charts That Will Challenge Your Perspective Of IoT's Growth
- Foresight Over Forecast
- From Construction To Art, Here Are 25 Industries That 3D Printing Could Disrupt
- The A to Z of social media for academia
- Software-as-a-Catalyst
- Here’s What Your Handwriting Says About You
Events / Announcements
- ACM India Chennai Professional Chapter Expert Talk on “Applying Machine Learning to support Human Learning”
- Second International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering, Science and Management (ICEESM '18)
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Articles
A Strategist’s Guide to
Industry 4.0
The
term Industry 4.0 refers to the combination of several major innovations in
digital technology, all coming to maturity right now, all poised to transform
the energy and manufacturing sectors. These technologies include advanced
robotics and artificial intelligence; sophisticated sensors; cloud computing;
the Internet of Things; data capture and analytics; digital fabrication
(including 3D printing); software-as-a-service and other new marketing models;
smartphones and other mobile devices; platforms that use algorithms to direct
motor vehicles (including navigation tools, ride-sharing apps, delivery and
ride services, and autonomous vehicles); and the embedding of all these
elements in an interoperable global value chain, shared by many companies from
many countries.
As
your company becomes active in Industry 4.0, you’ll find the benefits go far
beyond extending your digital reach or selling new types of products and
services. It will establish your company, your employees, and your entire
ecosystem of suppliers, partners, distributors, and customers as a fully
interconnected, integrated digital network, linked to other networks around the
world.
The Untold Story Of Notpetya, The Most Devastating Cyberattack In
History
Crippled ports. Paralyzed corporations. Frozen
government agencies. How a single piece of code crashed the world.
This Simple Chart Can Help Your Team Make Better Decisions Faster
One former Facebook engineer developed a method
(dubbed “Xanax for decision-making”) for helping teams speed past the red tape
in fast-growing companies.
Autonomous Shipping And What It Means For Global Trade
Massive Cargo Ships Are Going Autonomous. Here Are
The Companies & Trends Driving The Global Maritime Industry Forward. Established
corporates and new startups are driving progress in autonomous shipping. The
technology could improve safety, lower costs, and reduce energy consumption.
Related
story: This Start-up Is Digitizing The Entire International Shipping
Process
10 Charts That Will Challenge
Your Perspective Of IoT's Growth
- By 2020, Discrete Manufacturing, Transportation & Logistics and Utilities industries are projected to spend $40B each on IoT platforms, systems, and services.
- McKinsey predicts the IoT market will be worth $581B for ICT-based spend alone by 2020, growing at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) between 7 and 15%.
- Industrial products lead all industries in IoT adoption at 45% with an additional 22% planning to adopt IoT in the next 12 months according to a recent Forrester survey.
- The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market is predicted to reach $123B in 2021, attaining a CAGR of 7.3% through 2020.
- Harley Davidson reduced its build-to-order cycle by a factor of 36 and grew overall profitability by 3% to 4% by shifting production to a fully IoT-enabled plant according to Capgemini.
Realizing
the Internet of Thing’s (IoT) potential to reduce costs and enable new business
models needs to start with a platform perspective that includes app development
and integration. IoT is one of the most-researched emerging markets globally,
with a specific focus on how Cloud Services and APIs will enable a faster
proliferation of applications and the marketplaces that offer them. APIs will
enable IoT projects to succeed faster and with greater accuracy by enabling
more real-time integration points between systems. High-speed wireless networks
are a key growth catalyst for IoT, which is why Samsung, Qualcomm, LG, Huawei,
and Intel all are vying to establish product leadership with patents. These top
five patent holders together control over 13,300 IoT patents today. The
following ten charts provide insights into IoT’s explosive growth:
Foresight Over Forecast
How will today’s trends come together to create tomorrow’s business realities? How can we help our clients rotate to the new in a world of extended-reality technologies and industry disruption? How will a world of techno politics affect the future evolution of technology and business operating models? Our Business Futures are designed to help our clients immerse themselves in the future and identify answers to these questions.
What
happens when trends collide?
We
found many possible business futures through examining insights from
data-driven forecasts and speculative story-telling. Here are four such futures
and how they are likely to affect the business environment if the underlying
trends continue to collide.
From Construction To Art, Here
Are 25 Industries That 3D Printing Could Disrupt
3D
printing is efficient and highly customizable, and has potential applications
across a wide range of industries. While 3D printing technology for consumer
products has yet to live up to the hype, it’s thriving in the industrial world.
The technology enables rapid prototyping, which means that teams developing a
new product can quickly experiment with different designs and materials,
accelerating the product’s path to market. It’s also highly customizable and resource-efficient.
The 3D printing space has seen significant fundraising growth since 2013, with
big manufacturing corporates like GE and Siemens investing heavily. Global
spending on 3D printing will reach nearly $12B in 2018, according to IDC
forecasts. As the technology permeates more design studios and factory floors,
the potential applications are virtually endless. From construction to
pharmaceuticals to food, we take a look at the industries that 3D printing
could disrupt.
The A to Z of social media for
academia
Why
should academics be using social media? And which social media should they be
using? There are so many tools and networks that could be of potential use to
scholars that it can be difficult to keep track. Times Higher Education has
teamed up with Andy Miah, chair in science communication and future media at
the University of Salford, to offer you the definitive guide to the social
media tools available to academics, and how you can use them as you go about
your scholarly work. There are many, many tools, but we have tried to give an
idea of how higher education professionals might use them. Your definitive
guide to using social media as an academic
Software-as-a-Catalyst
Most of the world’s major innovators are in the midst of the transformational journey. R&D is shifting more and more toward developing software and services. Software increasingly carries the burden of enabling product differentiation and adaptability, and enhancing customer experiences and outcomes. Services, offered along with or separately from physical products, now focus more on new customer needs, providing enhanced value and improved usability.
Here’s
What Your Handwriting Says About You
The
way you dot your “i’s” and cross your “t’s” could reveal more than 5,000
different personality traits.
Events / Announcements
ACM India Chennai Professional
Chapter Expert Talk on “Applying Machine Learning to support Human Learning”
The
epert talk on “Applying Machine Learning to support Human Learning” will be
delivered by Dr. Manish Gupta, Co-founder
and CEO of Videoken Inc., Infosys Foundation Chair Professor, IIIT Bangalore
on 12th Sep 2018 at 5.30 p.m. at Aryabhatta Hall (CS 25), Department of CSE, IIT Madras.
Registration is FREE. However, if you intend to
attend the talk, please register to facilitate logistics.
Second International
Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering, Science and Management (ICEESM
'18)
The
Second International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering, Science and
Management (ICEESM '18) is being held at RGM College of Engineering and
Technology (autonomous), Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh, India, during 21-22 Dec 2018.
Paper
submission deadline is 30th Sep 2018
Website:
http://www.iceesm.co.in/index.html
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