TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY

SEEKING THE RIGHT TECHNOLOGY PATH

Quite often our clients are seeking informed advice around how best to approach and apply emerging new technologies.

To date, this has included such technologies as:

• IoT / IoE / Connected Systems / Embedded Devices
• Big Data
• Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
• 3D Printing
• Advanced Materials

Some of the more common questions our clients tend to be wrestling with include:

• When is the right time for us to start investigating these new technologies?
• When is the right time for us to actually start implementing these new technologies?
• Where should we place our focus in terms of using these technologies?   In the context of this business, what are their best uses and applications?
• Are there internal applications that should be considered and pursued?
• Should the technologies be embedded into new or revised offerings from the business?   And if so, in what way and to what end?
• What new benefits or outcomes can these new technologies produce that will be marketable in a way that benefits the business?
• Might there be completely new business models these technologies enable that can disrupt the current market and provide a sustainable competitive advantage?
• What would be the ramifications and implications if the business chose to not pursue these particular technologies?   Are there alternative paths that should be considered instead?

These are all highly critical and strategic questions that businesses must answer if they are to make the best use of these technologies, and therefore realize the greatest return on their investments in developing new applications for the technologies.

THE ENGAGEMENT

The Technology Advisory Engagement typically follows these steps:

1. We begin by listening to you in order to understand the specific technologies you are interested in and what sorts of questions you have around these technologies and their uses.
2. We then work with your organization's technology leaders to engage in exploratory discussions around the technologies, so as to understand your organization's current level of knowledge and expertise in these areas.
3. If needed, we engage in additional offline research to uncover answers to highly specific questions your leaders have.
4. As desired, we define new platform architectures unique to your business that employ these technologies.
5. We then document our insights and the specific answers to your questions in appropriate materials such as a Technology Brief, a Platform Design Report, or other reports.
6. Finally, we travel to your office and present these insights and answers to your leadership team.   We can also lead workshops with any of your staff to help disseminate these insights and answers as needed.
7. As desired, we can assist you in implementing any of these new technologies through our extensive partner network around the world.