Rich Karpinski is Senior Research Analyst for the Voice of the Enterprise: Internet of Things (IoT) survey and advisory offering at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. In this capacity, Rich tracks, analyzes and anticipates the pace and direction of IoT adoption, overseeing 451's quarterly survey of IoT adopters and twice-annual survey of operations technology (OT) professionals. As a member of 451's IoT team, Rich also is responsible for smart city and smart spaces coverage. In addition to that role, Rich closely tracks the evolution of mobile operator business models – including IoT and other digital service strategies – and works with 451's mobile operator customers to help them understand market trends and plot strategies.
Rich joined 451 Research in 2013 with the company's acquisition of mobility research firm Yankee Group. Before that, Karpinski was editor-in-chief of Connected Planet (formerly Telephony), where he led a staff in covering the service provider market. He has spent a career covering high-tech markets – both telecom and enterprise IT – for publications including Interactive Age, Communications Week, Information Week and Network Computing, working in marketing for supply chain software provider E2open and as an analyst for Net Market Makers.
Karpinski holds a BA from the University of Illinois and an MS from Syracuse University.
The good news is OT professionals report solid payback on current IoT projects and an outlook on their business impact that is even more bullish. The challenge will be building on those early returns while dealing with the challenges of bringing complex enterprise IoT deployments to scale.
The company is unusual in the IoT world in that it is primarily an engineering and architectural services firm, but it offers software applications focused on transportation in the smart cities space, including tolling, parking and traffic management as well as water distribution and asset management.
Key highlights from 451 Research's Voice of the Enterprise: IoT, Organizational Dynamics 2020 survey show most enterprises continuing, and in some cases accelerating, their IoT projects. Companies moving ahead successfully address a range of organizational challenges, including measuring IoT business and operational impact, overcoming IoT skills shortages and successfully elevating projects from trial to production.
The need for IoT-driven applications to support post-pandemic return-to-work requirements is high. And few firms have enabled more employees to return to work in the office post-Covid-19 than Tata Consultancy Services. The firm's Digital Software and Solutions software arm is now delivering these well-tested capabilities via its data analytics platform.
Launched earlier this year, the IoTConnect program has gone live with 20 partners " with over 100 more on deck " and the vendor plans to launch new tools and a so-called 'solutions hub' to help enterprises jump-start IoT deployments.
The Voice of the Enterprise: Internet of Things, Organizational Dynamics 2020 survey wave was conducted during the months of June and July 2020. The survey represents approximately 500 completed questionnaires from pre-qualified IT decision-makers.
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