deployed are prioritized by the continuous and transparent involvement of the
business, and the overall enterprise strategy. From a technology perspective,
this involvement is ideal because the technology side has a line-of-sight into
the business problems they are looking to solve with IoT. Furthermore, they
know that if their solution is successful, then it has a clear path to production
deployment. This is big for cultures looking to promote agility, innovation, risk
taking and making sure team members can see the benefits of their efforts.
Managing Your IoT Transformation
Innovation leaders want to see what IoT can do for their business, while ensur-
ing their investment dollars aren’t simply delivering them expensive, one-of-a-
kind prototypes that don’t lend themselves to real world deployment. To do
this effectively, you need to build an enterprise IoT enablement and deploy-
ment framework. This means engaging with leadership from Business Devel-
opment, Legal, Sales, Finance, Operations, IT, etc. to get alignment and ensure
that each stakeholder can ask questions and have their feedback incorporated
in the acceptance criteria and deployment processes for these IoT projects.
For example, IoT deployments can cause huge headaches for Legal and Finance,
based on their need for both capital and operational expenditures in various
countries, data collection and distribution regulation, global data privacy com-
pliance, deployment labor costs and many more complex aspects. This can
quickly derail or delay a promising IoT solution when tangential teams are sur-
prised when they get a laundry list of requests and requirements that force
last-minute, heroic efforts to tackle or alter practices that are counter to their
preferred process. By involving these departments earlier in the framework
creation process, you are able to discuss concerns preemptively and work on
mitigating them before they become a huge barrier to your IoT project’s com-
pany-wide adoption.
This may seem obvious, but often technologists forget that legal and finance
teams are some of the most influential gatekeepers and can make or break your
project’s success. Once they have approved your framework for building and
migrating IoT solutions there