28 Things I Learned the Hard Way
- If you want to have an IoT (Internet of Things) program, you’ve got to connect your products.
- If you want to build trust, give without getting.
- If you need someone with experience in manufacturing automation, hire a pro.
- If the engineering team wants to spend a year playing with a new technology, before the bell rings for recess ask them what solution they’ll provide and then go ask customers how much they’ll pay and how many they’ll buy.
- If you don’t have the resources, you don’t have a project.
- If you know how it will turn out, let someone else do it.
- If you want to make a friend, help them.
- If your products are not connected, you may think you have an IoT program, but you have something else.
- If you don’t have trust, you have just what you earned.
- If you hire a pro in manufacturing automation, listen to them.
- If Marketing has an optimistic sales forecast for the yet-to-be-launched product, go ask customers how much they’ll pay and how many they’ll buy.
- If you don’t have a project manager, you don’t have a project.
- If you know how it will turn out, teach someone else how to do it.
- If a friend needs help, help them.
- If you want to connect your products at a rate faster than you sell them, connect the products you’ve already sold.
- If you haven’t started building trust, you started too late.
- If you want to pull in the delivery date for your new manufacturing automation, instead, tell your customers you’ve pushed out the launch date.
- If the VP knows it’s a great idea, go ask customers how much they’ll pay and how many they’ll buy.
- If you can’t commercialize, you don’t have a project.
- If you know how it will turn out, do something else.
- If a friend asks you twice for help, drop what you’re doing and help them immediately.
- If you can’t figure out how to make money with IoT, it’s because you’re focusing on how to make money at the expense of delivering value to customers.
- If you don’t have trust, you don’t have much
- If you don’t like extreme lead times and exorbitant capital costs, manufacturing automation is not for you.
- If the management team doesn’t like the idea, go ask customers how much they’ll pay and how many they’ll buy.
- If you’re not willing to finish a project, you shouldn’t be willing to start.
- If you know how it will turn out, it’s not innovation.
- If you see a friend that needs help, help them ask you for help.
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