Kevin Jones

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“Just tell us the problem, we're going to solve it, and then we'll walk on to the next problem. I get it, it's in my DNA too... just where we've seen the successes of that, just really sharing the successes... it's really just a transparency thing.”

Kevin Jones from dataPARC on Historians, Industrial Data, Context and a Piece of Black Paper

“You need an executive sponsor who can sign the check... an operations manager... a technology person... a willingness to start small, to get the quick win, because that's where that trust part of the equation comes into play.”

Kevin Jones from dataPARC on Historians, Industrial Data, Context and a Piece of Black Paper

“What he found was that the person before him had taken a piece of black paper and really eloquently cut out eight squares of the eight trends he wanted to see... he felt like these were the only eight ones he needed to see.”

Kevin Jones from dataPARC on Historians, Industrial Data, Context and a Piece of Black Paper

“We'd hear from a customer, hey, there was an issue with the system. The shift operator overnight called up the OT on-call guy, woke him up in the middle of the night... this means they live by it, right?”

Kevin Jones from dataPARC on Historians, Industrial Data, Context and a Piece of Black Paper

“The three characteristics of a successful organization to be at that stage five, it's the team. It's the trust and then it's the technology. So you kind of have to have those three T's.”

Kevin Jones from dataPARC on Historians, Industrial Data, Context and a Piece of Black Paper