Reality is Required
If you have spent any time working on IT projects you will have heard the statement, "The solution is only as good as the data." It's true. If you lack enough good data to generate an accurate output, stop and find it before moving forward. I remember having so many good ideas for process improvement when I worked in IT. Almost all of them, however, were shut down with the words, “We don’t have good data for that.” Truth is important. If your data does not reflect reality – digital solutions won’t work. Many technology projects fail when they move from the whiteboard to reality because they were designed on a notional view of the world, rather than on the state of things as they actually exist. Understanding what reality is can often be helped by developing a digital twin. A digital twin is created by integrating sensors into a thing or series of things for the purpose of capturing enough good data to clearly depict reality. Sensor-supported digital twins fill in