Stop Wincing about IoT and Get Moving Neil Strother, Principal Research Analyst, Navigant Research [NYSE:NCI] Neil Strother, Principal Research Analyst, Navigant Research [NYSE:NCI], Neil Strother is a Principal Research Analyst in the Energy Practice at Navigant. Neil's current work focuses on smart metering technolo... More >> The Internet of Things (IoT) keeps popping up on many a CIO’s radar. Yet, many struggle with how to intelligently harness promising IoT technologies and platforms—it can be an elusive endeavor. Is this you? You are not alone. A global SAP survey of 3,000 corporate executives conducted this year found that 3 percent of the respondents said their firms had completed company wide digital transformation projects, which can be interpreted as IoT deployments of one kind or another. The flip side is that the overwhelming majority (97 percent) have not done so. Nonetheless, more than half (55 percent) of the respondents said their companies are conducting pilot projects. Although they are on the IoT journey, they’ve just begun trying to figure it out.