Conclusion: Developing Your IoT Strategy and Plan

Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.

—ANONYMOUS

It was a dreary February early morning in 1999 in Portland, Oregon, and my good friend and longtime mentor, Steve Maupin, and I had just delivered an inspiring, value-building, and compelling integrated-supply-chain and manufacturing strategy to the senior leadership team of a forest-products company.

The CEO, at the surface a crusty forest-products operator but at his heart a sophisticated sales and operating executive, sat back after the presentation. Steve and I, standing up front, waited with the rest of his leadership team in silence. We had been retained to do an enterprise planning resource (ERP) software ...

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