Aapo Markkanen

Industry analyst at Gartner - exploring the Internet of Things

[Aapo Markkanen @markkaapo]

"Love the problem - not the solution!" Just authored a report on how to verify a product idea's problem/solution fit through customer discovery. Looking forward to talking to @Gartner_inc's #productmanagement clients about how to apply it. Here's the blurb https://t.co/1ZvKl1hCBA

[Elspeth Belden @lbhahaha]

Guns N' Roses have really mellowed with age

[Aapo Markkanen @markkaapo]

In practice, that involves eg 240 truckloads and 70 train carriages of raw wood per day. A truck entering the plant complex with a wood load can have a turnaround of 15min. While a truck leaving with pulp can be loaded in 5min

[Aapo Markkanen @markkaapo]

Fascinating visit to the shiny new pulp mill in Äänekoski today, at @MetsaGroup's #ProNemus visitor centre. Lots of cool examples of #IIoT and #SmartManufacturing in both process automation and logistics

[Aapo Markkanen @markkaapo]

In today's manufacturing it's especially the sheer scale of Just-in-Time that always boggles the mind. Also this plant holds practically nothing in terms of materials or inventory. All wood is fed continuously into the system and all pulp is continuously shipped out

[Aapo Markkanen @markkaapo]

I do expect you to respond, @Finnair. Did you meet your obligation to inform the passengers of their rights (incl the entitlement to compensation), or did you not?

[Aapo Markkanen @markkaapo]

Hello @Finnair! Re today's flight 1332 from Heathrow to Helsinki (which was over 6h late), did you remember to inform all affected customers of their air passenger rights and how to exercise them? My rather strong impression is that you deliberately did not

[Banker's Umbrella @BankersUmbrella]

Brilliant article on Finland and its murky history. Read it now. https://t.co/ldGwdQLEVp

[Aapo Markkanen @markkaapo]

See, having to live with the consequences of one's own advice is always the worst

[Aapo Markkanen @markkaapo]

We generally advise tech vendors to focus on advantages and business over specs and features in their messaging. The downside of that approach, if overdone, is that it can make it next to impossible to tell a genuine solution from vertically tweaked storytelling

[Aapo Markkanen @markkaapo]

Trying to map IIoT solutions (packaged, pre-validated, vertical, ready-to-deploy, etc) to figure out what's actually out there, and it's been deeply frustrating. So many products masquerading as "solutions" and so many use cases masquerading as "case studies"

[Aapo Markkanen @markkaapo]

Also: managed to pick up this artefact of desire for my friend @OnimodoContent

[Aapo Markkanen @markkaapo]

On a Eurostar back to London. Great meetings with French tech startups and system integrators in the local @Gartner_inc office, in the heart of La Defense. Lots going on in the French IoT scene

[Aapo Markkanen @markkaapo]

I suppose this is how Americans feel when they see Europeans who don't know how to tip

[Aapo Markkanen @markkaapo]

On a Eurostar from London to Paris. I reiterate that people who take Important and Potentially Sensitive Business Calls in public transport make for (1) bad business partners and (2) extremely annoying co-passengers. Don't be that guy

[Aapo Markkanen @markkaapo]

This is why America needs more public transport. So that more Americans know how to behave when they one day see a proper train

[Sam Coates Sky @SamCoatesSky]

This is the one I’ve been waiting for. Oh the irony

[Aapo Markkanen @markkaapo]

@BLheureux Ha, nice one! I'm looking forward to you and @AlVelosa come up with one that features the drone flying in to the same bar with the now increasingly inebriated digital twins...

[Aapo Markkanen @markkaapo]

@BankersUmbrella @MoisioAleksi @Okahkonen @smakelainen @mrsseppala @teroterotero @FazerSuomi Those cheeky Swedes, always making the others do their cultural appropriation. This is what my local gym communicated to me a while ago. So wrong at so many levels