Separate communities are still innovating in their own fragments. By breaking the parts and recreating them each time, we are building new montages.

So we are still making progress but not as the beautiful picture painted to management from outside articles or books.

In reality we have to bring technology into companies to solve problems with small pilots and prove our ROI without access to the full data that will create value. Especially for IoT it creates new fragments of different clouds across different parts of the company later creating new projects to standardize technologies. That is why we see the centralization vs decentralization movement happening again and again.

The reality is that  each attempt to solve a business problem with a technology pilot wakes up the company to the problem and the promise of the solution, it educates management about the potential of the technology and the internal teams and the company moves along the Ai readiness index.

Frustrated innovators go on to other companies to build out their vision. Sone create nimble startups to be an outsider to bring the promise of automation to more companies. So as an industry. value chains shift and ecosystems evolve as we move towards progress over a longer timeframe.

How can the power of partnerships help us move forward without feeling limited?

How do we capture the lessons along the way without losing our learning with each iteration to bring innovation to our companies?

How do we focus on the collective communities and retain hope when we are fragmented into silos in the enterprise?