A latest study conducted by Cisco revealed unfortunate truth that most of the IoT projects have failed. The study suggested that nearly 60 percent of IoT initiatives stall at the Proof of Concept (PoC) stage and only 26 percent of companies have had an IoT initiative that they considered a complete success. Even worse: a third of all completed projects were not considered a success.
“It’s not for lack of trying, But there are plenty of things we can do to get more projects out of pilot and to complete success, and that’s what we’re here in London to do.” said Rowan Trollope, Senior Vice President and General Manager, IoT and Applications, Cisco.
The company surveyed 1,845 IT and business decision-makers in the United States, UK, and India across a range of industries — manufacturing, local government, retail/hospitality/sports, energy (utilities/oil & gas/mining), transportation, and health care.
All respondents worked for organizations that are implementing and/or have completed IoT initiatives. All were involved in the overall strategy or direction of at least one of their organization’s IoT initiatives. The goal was to gain insight into both the successes as well as the challenges that are impacting progress.
But despite the challenges, most of the respondents were optimistic for the future of IoT — a trend that, for all its forward momentum, is still in its nascent stages of evolution. Sixty-one percent believe that we have barely begun to scratch the surface of what IoT technologies can do for their businesses.