Leading the IoT - Gartner

2017 Gartner , Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Gartner is a registered trademark of Gartner , Inc. or its affiliates. For more information, email or visit BY Mark Hung, Gartner Research Vice PresidentGartner Insights on How to Lead in a Connected WorldLeading the IoTLeading the IoT2 The Internet of Things (IoT) has rapidly become one of the most familiar and perhaps most hyped expressions across business and technology. We expect to see 20 billion internet-connected things by 2020. These things are not general-purpose devices, such as smartphones and PCs, but dedicated-function objects, such as vending machines, jet engines, connected cars and a myriad of other IoT will have a great impact on the economy by transforming many enterprises into digital businesses and facilitating new business models, improving efficiency and increasing employee and customer engagement. However, the ways in which enterprises can actualize any benefits will be diverse and, in some cases, Hung Gartner Research Vice PresidentThe biggest barrier to the IoT is that most enterprises do not know what to do with the technology.

Finally, in 2017, we expect some of these ‘explorers’ to move to the ‘reality’ phase, when skunkworks projects and proofs of concept graduate to commercial or production deployment.” As IoT projects become reality for some organizations, CIOs can leverage lessons from Trenitalia’s journey, aligning the IoT to desired

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