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Strategy & Best Practices
The Five Elements Every Manufacturer Needs for Marketplace Success
For today’s hardware and device makers, the race is on, not only to launch digital strategies around their physical products, but to also make their d...By Ideas @ AppDirect / AppDevices / August 30, 2018
Strategy & Best Practices
Answering the Digital Platform “Build vs. Buy” Question for Hardware and Device Makers
The manufacturing industry is rapidly approaching a tipping point. By 2020, just two years from now, the majority of hardware and device makers will r...By Ideas @ AppDirect / AppDevices / August 23, 2018
Strategy & Best Practices
How Manufacturers Can Define Digital KPIs that Matter
In the manufacturing sector, digital transformation is a hot topic. However, despite its novelty—or maybe because of it—manufacturers are having a har...By Ideas @ AppDirect / AppDevices / August 16, 2018
Strategy & Best Practices
Business Alignment: Setting the Right Foundation for Your Manufacturing 4.0 Initiatives
Today, manufacturers are experiencing two trends that are upending their businesses: Massive digital disruption, and the increasing commoditization of...By Ideas @ AppDirect / AppDevices / August 9, 2018
Strategy & Best Practices
When Software and Hardware Equal Digital Transformation Success
By now, digital transformation has been around long enough that it has gone from concept to actionable business strategy. With this maturity, business...By Ideas @ AppDirect / AppDevices / July 24, 2018
Industry Insights
The Digital Revolution in Manufacturing, Part Three: Driving Competitive Value
The definition of manufacturing has always been straightforward: to make products on a large scale using machinery. With the dawn of Industry 4.0, how...By James MacTavish / AppDevices / March 28, 2018