How ready is your organization to leverage the Internet of Things? How do you get ready to do it? Any company wanting to capture the IoT opportunity must first ask itself these questions, but until now we’ve had few practical answers. Finally, in ‘Building the Internet of Things – A Project Workbook,’ Maciej Kranz reveals the proven formula for how most any organization can identify, plan, prepare, deploy and reap the benefits of IoT. It’s an important contribution to industry in the digital age, and a must read for IoT practitioners and their teams.

Following up on his best-seller, “Building the Internet of Things,” Maciej Kranz delivers a companion workbook on the nuts and bolts of IoT implementations for enterprises and startups alike. This engaging and interactive workbook quickly takes frontline managers through all the essential steps for a successful IoT implementation, including how to assess your own readiness, build a business case, form your co-development team, and combine the right technologies to achieve your own business goals.

Building the Internet of Things – A Project Workbook’ is a practitioner’s guide to being successful in creating value with IoT deployments. In the 30+ years that I have known Maciej Kranz, he has always been a leader in out-of-the-box thinking for accelerating good ideas. This book captures his many years of experience in developing innovative business models with IoT technologies. The book will also capture your creative energy and then focus it with guided exercises and a self-scoring system for immediate feedback. A busy manager will appreciate the simple and engaging prose for helping to fast track the journey into the world of IoT.

In ‘Building the Internet of Things – a Project Workbook,’ Maciej Kranz distills all the hype and complexity around IoT into a succinct, actionable roadmap. It reflects his years of hands-on experience with holistic and sustainable approaches to ensure adoption of best practices – from security considerations to validating business cases. It also shares how to avoid common mistakes on the way to harnessing the power of IoT platforms. This is an asset for industry that is every bit as pivotal and valuable as the IoT technologies themselves.

We’re thrilled that IoT pioneer Maciej Kranz has followed up on his first book, ‘Building the Internet of Things,’ with this related workbook. The workbook’s pragmatic and usable methodology filled with valuable resources and considerations will be invaluable for anyone charged with rolling out an IoT project. From a scheme to score your company’s IoT readiness, to an ROI calculator and methods to measure success, this workbook can make a difference in the outcome of your IoT operations.

This workbook can serve as a standalone guide to hit the ground running with your IoT project, while it also pairs perfectly with Maciej Kranz’s first book, ‘Building the Internet of Things.’ Together, they provide a powerful combination of practical, how-to steps and contextual insights on successful IoT projects. With so much hype around IoT, it is exceedingly difficult to find a straight-forward resource to augment big data and data science training programs. This is the definitive guidebook on IoT that industry needs now to start and scale their own IoT projects.