Sunday 2 September 2018

Interesting Reads – 2018-09-01


 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


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