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increase the speed of your IoT efforts. It will require a significant investment up front to build the proper IoT sandbox and the enterprise framework, but you will reap the dividends quickly as your lines of business are able to explore IoT solutions within the safety of the sandbox. Once a viable solution has been identified, the team will have the proper processes to get it approved for a wide-scale production deployment. Victory Through a CBO At CTP we encourage our clients to create a Cloud Business Office (CBO) to serve as the central point of decision-making and communication for your ini- tiatives. It is critical to approach IoT solutions with a holistic view by engaging the business and technology groups to create an IoT enablement and deploy- ment framework. This specific IoT framework can live within the CBO, or be it’s own entity, but it is important to lay the proper foundation and guardrails for your organization to safely and effectively explore IoT solutions. Without a CBO, having various IoT environments and states of compliance and testing can bring IoT adoption to a crawl while you try to unify your various efforts and mitigate internal fallout. In today’s fast-paced technology environment the Latin proverb still holds true: Amat victoria curam (victory loves diligence). Bringing IoT to Your Organization With the emergence of smart sensors and con- nected devices, the Internet of Things has sur- passed becoming “the next big thing” and claimed its place as a key disruptive technology affecting nearly all enterprises today. CTP delivers a broad range of IoT consulting and implementation services that use the power of the cloud to solve today’s most challenging busi- ness problems. Learn how CTP can help design, build and implement your next IoT project: www.cloudtp.com/iot/ SPRING 2017 | THE DOPPLER | 69