How to Use the IoT to Boost Business Revenue
Early Internet if things leaders are more likely to digitally reimagine their businesses and produce substantial value for customers, not just value for themselves.
79% of surveyed global execs said their companies have Internet of things (IoT) initiatives in place today.
The average company increased revenues by 16% last year in business areas with IoT initiatives, and nearly one out of 10 global execs attributed a revenue rise of more than 30% to IoT efforts.
47% said their company uses IoT tech to track customers through mobile apps.
45% said their company deploys IoT tech to monitor production and distribution operations.
25% said their organizations take advantage of IoT to receive data from products to get a sense of how those products are performing, and the same percentage use it to monitor locations of stores, branches and offices.
40% said their companies will improve their product support and repair services through IoT because product usage by customers will be monitored.
29% said their organizations now will drive additional revenues by selling customer product usage data to third parties.
23% said their companies will use IoT to bypass entities in the distribution channel to reach customers directly.