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July 29, 2020About IoT World 2020 What to expect at IoT World Virtual Visit Polymorph’s virtual booth The need to connect, inform, and innovate... -
April 9, 2020Our previous post concluded with the following statement: “Garbage in, garbage out” and highlighted that for predictive maintenance to... -
March 26, 2020Operational downtime is one of the biggest risks that large manufacturing companies are exposed to. The business cost of... -
March 12, 2020Maintenance costs form a major part of the total operating costs of all manufacturing and production plants. Depending on... -
January 29, 2020We have recently undertaken an article series in which we unpack the IoT decision-making tree, evaluate the various options... -
January 20, 2020Energy Partners, a leading energy utility provider in South Africa and Africa, tasked Polymorph to create a reliable data... -
January 13, 2020Many business decision-makers have moved beyond the point where IOT is just a buzzword. They are seeing the tangible... -
December 4, 2019This article is part of a series called the IoT decision-making tree where we explain the various options and... -
November 24, 2019Business decision-makers are increasingly moving beyond the point where IOT is just a buzzword to them. They are seeing... -
November 21, 2019This year’s AfricaCom conference in Cape Town was the place to meet everybody who’s anybody in African telecoms and... -
October 30, 2019In our previous article we introduced the IoT tree which aims to simplify the process in selecting the most... -
October 10, 2019In a previous post, we have discussed and compared the advantages and disadvantages of the type of IOT connectivity... -
September 5, 2019Organisations today rely heavily on data to make informed decisions that will yield high-value results. Therefore, unplanned line downtime,... -
August 26, 2019Waste is one of the main contributors of annual manufacturer financial losses. The traditional reasons for this include among... -
August 14, 2019Schneider Electric has opened multiple smart factories worldwide, with its latest addition in Lexington, Kentucky. The factory boasts 10... -
July 31, 2019With the rise of progressively sophisticated connected devices, we’re on the cusp of a new era of business productivity.... -
June 19, 2019The Internet of Things (or, IoT for short) is reshaping the world as we know it. From leisure to... -
June 12, 2019The Internet of Things (IoT) is driving transformation for enterprises, consumers, and governments alike. Technological advances such as smart... -
May 31, 2019IoT Much has been written about the Internet of Things and the steady rise and disruptive impact of machines and... -
February 22, 2018In December 2017 and January 2018, Polymorph was joined by new interns; Tatenda Muvhu and Mustafa Rashid. We met... -
February 8, 2018During the first three days of February The Things Network hosted the world’s first LoRa conference in Amsterdam. Divided into... -
February 1, 2018The Things Network is a global community building an open Internet of Things infrastructure. It spans the globe with... -
January 25, 2018One only has to search innovation trends to be inundated with articles proclaiming doctors will be replaced within a... -
January 18, 2018Our mobile app development teams are comprised of designers, developers, product owners and are held together by formidable agile... -
January 16, 2018In the past year, I have written a great deal on app & product development, but it is a... -
January 9, 2018With the growing options for connectivity, JP Meijers and I took a look at the comparison between each. The vast... -
January 3, 2018Every year, I ask around the Polymorph Slack rooms and the halls of our HQ in Stellenbosch to ask... -
December 27, 2017Every year, I ask around the Polymorph Slack rooms and the halls of our HQ in Stellenbosch to ask... -
December 21, 2017Every year, I ask around the Polymorph Slack rooms and the halls of our HQ in Stellenbosch to find... -
December 19, 2017In a recent Forbes article, B2B spending on the IoT technologies, apps and solutions will reach $267 billion by... -
December 5, 2017In June, I was invited to present a talk at GeoIoT in Belgium, Brussels. The talk was centered around... -
November 19, 2017Eric Rees’ book Lean Startup popularized the term Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and it has become the first step... -
November 10, 2017Many people say that the changes in business, such as disruption or applying design thinking, are because technology has... -
October 19, 2017Themes at WorldSummitAI It would be impossible to summarize the talks, events and experiences co-founders Sarah Porter (Inspired Minds), Christoph... -
October 17, 2017a “Mind Blowing” experience at Artificial Intelligence Conference, WorldSummitAI, 2017 I met Pepper the Robot… Well, I met two Peppers.... -
October 5, 2017Many of the anxieties around starting a company, building a new product and developing a new app are related... -
October 3, 2017This year, I had the honor to lead #cocreateSA Inspiring Fifty. Co-founded by two extraordinary women, Janneke Niessen and... -
September 21, 2017The eXeML Conference opens in Sandton today and I am one of twelve American and South African leaders in... -
September 19, 2017In 1999, Professor of Sociology Neil Goss, made the statement that “in the next century, planet earth would don... -
September 13, 2017I was recently asked what are the top three industries that South African development and design companies do exceptionally... -
September 7, 2017Some claim that Minimum Viable Experience (MVE) replaces or supersedes Minimum Viable Product (MVP). While this might be true... -
September 6, 2017Once you have started product development, keep the following ten practical steps in mind to help you ensure an... -
August 31, 2017“it is about making it as actionable as possible while staying entrepreneur-focused” - Ash Maurya, the creator of the Lean Canvas Not... -
August 30, 2017Simply, the Product Canvas defines the solution and is easily translated into the Product Backlog which forms the backbone... -
August 22, 2017Upon meeting entrepreneurs, I regularly find that the challenge of thinking of everything related to building a company creates... -
August 17, 2017"A vision is an anchor and a hot air balloon." - Chantal Louw As an anchor, it keeps all stakeholders engaged... -
August 10, 2017"A business model describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value" -... -
August 7, 2017We are often asked to define Lean Product Development (LPD) and usually we speak about product evolution and being... -
July 11, 2017In June, my colleague Johan, and I traveled to Belgium to speak at the GeoIoT conference. As one of... -
May 26, 2017The complexity, and thus the potential of IoT, has scaled remarkably with the rapid growth in the number of... -
May 9, 2017Whenever I write on technology, I think of a tool popular at workshops in introductions; explain your job to... -
March 29, 2017An oft heard refrain is “who has time to read?”, mine is always “who doesn’t?”. With that in mind,... -
February 22, 2017Simply put, IoT is an acronym for the Internet of Things. For me, connection is at the heart of... -
January 18, 2017In 2016, Polymorph launched a new commercial model for building apps. It's a model with much less financial risk up... -
December 8, 2016Management expert Peter Drucker is often misquoted as having said: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.”... -
December 2, 2016In the 1700s, the First Industrial Revolution made many manual labour tasks redundant. Then, during the Second Industrial Revolution... -
November 18, 2016The third annual User Experience conference in Cape Town was held from the 7th to the 9th of November.... -
November 15, 2016As South Africa celebrated National Transport Month throughout October, a community of innovators, technologists and free thinkers came together to... -
August 26, 2016At Polymorph we work on innovative products all the time. One of the growth areas in Technology at the...
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December 3, 2015By Dané Swart & Madi Duvenhage What has three legs, a thick skin and the ability to feed the hungriest...
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November 5, 2015It’s 7am in the morning and I’m still in bed.Upon hearing the beep on my cellphone announcing a direct/group...
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May 8, 2015At Polymorph we enjoy working on innovative projects and new technology. We have been fortunate to work with clients...
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May 5, 2015Polymorph got featured in the EikestadNuus! You can read the full article here: http://www.eikestadnuus.co.za/240388/news-details/is-hierdie-ontwerpwerk-n-wetenskap-of-is-dit-kuns