Business Development at Bosch
Dirk Slama has more than 20 years of experience in international IT and IoT projects. He is co-author of four best-selling books, including ‘Enterprise SOA’, ‘Enterprise BPM’ and ‘Enterprise IoT’. As Chief Alliance Officer of Bosch Software Innovations, he helps shape the company’s IoT ecosystem. Dirk holds a diploma degree in computer science from the Technical University Berlin, as well as an MBA from IMD Lausanne.
Publications
Nov 12, 2015
Enterprise IoT: Strategies and Best Practices for Connected Products and Services.
O'Reilly UK Ltd.
Slama, Dirk
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Mirrish, Jim
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Bhatnagar, Rishi M.
Jan 31, 2011
Enterprise BPM: Erfolgsrezepte für unternehmensweites Prozessmanagement.
dpunkt.verlag GmbH
Slama, Dirk
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Nelius, Ralph
Nov 9, 2004
Enterprise SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices (The Coad Series).
Prentice Hall
Krafzig, Dirk
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Banke, Karl
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Slama, Dirk
Part 1
In many industries, the Internet of things (IoT) is seen as the next key driver of business model innovation in the coming decades. The large analyst firms have tried to outdo each other with excited, multibillion-dollar predictions of revenue and GDP growth from the IoT. In fact, the transformational potential of the IoT is huge. The basic assumption is that in the future, almost all products – consumer as well as industrial – will become more intelligent and leverage always-on connectivity to access value-adding services in the cloud or other back end. Industry analysts are still bullish on the growth potential of the IoT, as can be seen in the following figure.
