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The Nexus Podcast🎧 #138: The one where James gets interviewed"Building owners need a lot more than what siloed systems are capable of. Smart building solutions need to solve that problem by integrating with those systems, and in the next phases, adopting more of a horizontal architecture where building owners are not buying all of these redundant layers anymore from a bunch of different vendors. But if we're all speaking from different sheets of music, we're never going have that infrastructure and we're never going to be able to do these more sophisticated things with our buildings."—James DiceMy HighlightsRosy's introduction (3:30)Rosy on...2023-02-161h 30
The Nexus Podcast🎧 #025: Friendly rants volume 6: know your customer!Listen now | “I can’t stand it. If I hear one more person say, ‘We’re going to add $2 per square foot of rentable value to your building…’.” Get full access to Nexus at www.nexuslabs.online/subscribe2020-10-2913 min
The Nexus Podcast🎧 #021: Friendly rants volume 5: the misuse of the word "platform"“Okay, Dennis, this week's rant is on the overuse or misuse of the word platform. I don't really have a definition—I'm certainly not a platform architect—but I feel like I know what it isn't.”Hey friends,This is the fifth installment in our series of shorter, more casual podcast conversations called Friendly Rants. These episodes are quick, 10-ish minute episodes on something that pisses us off. Everyone loves a good rant, right?Note: this episode is exclusive to members of Nexus Pro. You’ll need to click “Listen in podcast app” above...2020-10-0119 min
The Nexus Podcast🎧 #017: Friendly rants volume 4: You can't get fired for...Listen now | “If you go with something that is reputable on the surface, then you de-risk yourself, by making that selection. I mean, that’s kinda what we’re saying by, ‘you can’t fail by choosing JCI.’ … It wasn’t like a pilot. They didn’t feel the need to go scrutinize and validate and make sure that they made the right decision, so the [problem] just lingered on and on for multiple years… It’s like the opposite of the pilot issue, almost an overconfidence that this will be your selected vendor and blindly committing, without taking a...2020-09-0316 min
The Nexus Podcast🎧 #014: Friendly rants volume 3: Crawl, walk, runListen now | “To take this rant to the positive side, this should be an open, honest conversation: Are you even ready for new technology? Because if you haven’t leveraged what you have today, you’re under-resourced, you don’t have time, attention, and budget to do anything else… What is this technology going to do?” Get full access to Nexus at www.nexuslabs.online/subscribe2020-08-0611 min
The Nexus Podcast🎧 #012: Friendly rants volume 2: the first step to nowhereI think that there's two different types of pilots here: there’s a learning, lazy pilot; and then there's the I'm-going-to-scale-up-if-this-is-successful-based-on-these-criteria pilot.—James DiceHey friends,This is the second installment of a new series of shorter, more casual podcast conversations called Friendly Rants. These episodes are quick, 10-ish minute episodes on something that pisses us off. Everyone loves a good rant, right?Note: this episode is exclusive to members of Nexus Pro. You’ll need to click “Listen in podcast app” above to add the Pro feed to your podcast player...2020-07-1616 min
The Nexus Podcast🎧 #010: Friendly rants volume 1: the true costsListen now | If the first outcome of your project is that you surprise a client with a fee that you didn't warn them could happen, you've failed before you've even gotten out of the gates. —Dennis Krieger Hey friends, This is the first installment of a new series of shorter, more casual podcast conversations called Friendly Rants. These episodes are quick, 10-ish minute episodes on something that pisses us off. Everyone loves a good rant, right? Get full access to Nexus at www.nexuslabs.online/subscribe2020-06-2515 min