{"id":31487,"date":"2017-09-07T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/4145743"},"modified":"2017-09-07T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T21:00:00","slug":"speed-in-digitaltransformation-thingsexpo-ai-dx-iot-smartcities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/speed-in-digitaltransformation-thingsexpo-ai-dx-iot-smartcities\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed in #DigitalTransformation | @ThingsExpo #AI #DX #IoT #SmartCities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of speed as an advantage is not new. Over the course of 700 years, the Romans built and maintained a system of roads extending over 55,000 miles to enable speedy communications and the quick movement of troops across the vast expanse of the empire.<br \/>\nWhat\u2019s different today is that digital technologies have warped our perception of time. As an example, a person might say they live five minutes from town, but that can have widely different meanings based on whether they were referring to walking or driving a car.  Digital technologies compress our perception of time and space while expanding our expectations of what can be accomplished in a given time. We expect to complete the equivalent of one hour of shopping in a supermarket in one minute online.  These changes significantly impact the way businesses must operate in a digital era to compete and remain relevant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/4145743\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of speed as an advantage is not new. Over the course of 700 years, the Romans built and maintained a system of roads extending over 55,000 miles to enable speedy communications and the quick movement of troops across the vast expanse of the empire.<br \/>\nWhat&rsquo;s different today is that digital technologies have warped our perception of time. As an example, a person might say they live five minutes from town, but that can have widely different meanings based on whether they were referring to walking or driving a car.  Digital technologies compress our perception of time and space while expanding our expectations of what can be accomplished in a given time. We expect to complete the equivalent of one hour of shopping in a supermarket in one minute online.  These changes significantly impact the way businesses must operate in a digital era to compete and remain relevant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/4145743\" 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-31487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31487","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=31487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31488,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31487\/revisions\/31488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}