Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is continuing its growth path across the industry and organizations are at varying levels of maturity.
Along those lines, the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) unveiled the IIoT Maturity Assessment, a web-based tool included in the IIC Resource Hub that enables users to better understand their enterprise IIoT maturity.
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The IIoT Maturity Assessment helps organizations become best-practice adopters of IIoT by guiding business managers through a range of questions about the adoption, usage and governance of IIoT within their organizations.
“The IIoT market has grown quickly and many businesses planned strategy while in the midst of execution and need to step back and assess their true IIoT maturity,” said Jim Morrish, Co-Chair of the IIC’s Business Strategy and Solution Lifecycle Working Group and co-author of the IIoT Maturity Assessment tool. “The IIoT Maturity Assessment will help companies get a baseline for their maturity right now and assess it in regular intervals to track their progress.”
The IIoT Maturity Assessment is comprised of a framework of four main dimensions and their corresponding strands.
Business Strategy
• Market context
• Strategic context
• Business model innovation and refinement
• IoT Foundations
Business Solution Lifecycle
• Interface to business strategy
• Solution design
• Project team structuring
• Project management
• In service monitoring and feedback
Technology
• Technology strategy
• Reference architecture and standards
• Platforms stack
• Data location transparency
Security
• Governance
• Enablement
• Hardening
The IIoT Maturity Assessment considers 63 individual capabilities, each with five levels of maturity within the above framework.
The IIoT Maturity Assessment is available in three levels of analysis: Quick, Standard (both open to everyone) and Detailed (IIC members only).