{"id":21788,"date":"2016-04-12T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3757557"},"modified":"2016-04-12T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T18:45:00","slug":"simplifying-the-iot-conversation-thingsexpo-iot-digitaltransformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/simplifying-the-iot-conversation-thingsexpo-iot-digitaltransformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplifying the IoT Conversation | @ThingsExpo #IoT #DigitalTransformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all been in those sales meetings. The sales person kicks off the meeting by welcoming everyone and introducing the topic of discussion. Then the pre-sales expert drags everyone through their 100-slide PowerPoint deck with enough buzzwords and confusing phrases (at 9 point font, of course) to dull even the most engaged person.<br \/>\nI call these types of presentations the \u201cJabberwocky Strategy\u201d because they remind me of one of my kids\u2019 favorite poems, \u201cJabberwocky\u201d, by Lewis Carroll.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3757557\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&rsquo;ve all been in those sales meetings. The sales person kicks off the meeting by welcoming everyone and introducing the topic of discussion. Then the pre-sales expert drags everyone through their 100-slide PowerPoint deck with enough buzzwords and confusing phrases (at 9 point font, of course) to dull even the most engaged person.<br \/>\nI call these types of presentations the &ldquo;Jabberwocky Strategy&rdquo; because they remind me of one of my kids&rsquo; favorite poems, &ldquo;Jabberwocky&rdquo;, by Lewis Carroll.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3757557\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21789,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21788\/revisions\/21789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}