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Michael Riemer

Michael Riemer

Managing Partner

An “accidental” entrepreneur with 33+ years of sucessfully building things – products (SaaS, IoT, & hardware), services (communications networks), and companies. A three-time co-founder with five patents (NLP and transporation safety), and three exits as well as being an early executive at Nextel leading the go-to-market strategy and product management.

As a consultant/advisor, he has supported more than 5 dozen ventures across 10 different industries. Creator of the Common-SenseTM Innovation Approach integrating proven best practices and process tools to maximize outcomes at the lowest possible risk.

Currently, the founding general partner of New Urbana – building enterprise co-innovation labs and new ventures to improve the design, construction, operation, and management of digital and critical infrastructure for enterprises, utilities, public-private-partnerships, infrastructure operators, and public institutions.

Ready or Not, Industry 4.0 Is Here

Many articles and posts on digital transformations and Industry 4.0 focus solely on technology enablement. In doing so, they underestimate the negative impact of poor organizational alignment. Assuming that employees can do both their day job…

Three Common IIoT Mistakes

Not a day goes by without an article or blog outlining the technology stack required to build an enterprise IoT solution. During hype-cycles like this, the immaturity of the technology and the general lack of knowledge…