A lot of the failed analytics rollouts I’ve been called into trace back to the same moment, and it’s rarely the moment anyone expects. It’s not a bad algorithm, a stubborn facility manager, or an underpowered edge device. It’s a tender document written two or three years earlier, by a specifying engineer who had never heard of the analytics platform that would eventually try to use the network they were designing, because there was usually no reason for them to have heard of it.
