The resources section collects the news and articles that Dr. Aleksander Poniewierski has published alongside his book. It is the place to go between the chapters of SPEED: a running commentary on the technologies and events that the book anticipated, from the digital twin to the pandemic, from the Internet of Things to robotics, and from cybersecurity to the leadership habits that hold up under pressure.
News from the author
The news stream tracks recognition, events and milestones. It documents, for example, the award of IoT World Leader of the Year 2020, keynote speeches and webinars, and the moment the book was recommended to participants of a session on the CIO of the Future. Each item links directly to the underlying story, so readers can trace how the themes of the book play out in public and see the author's position tested in real time.
Read as a sequence, the news items also show how quickly a theme can move from a book chapter to a market reality. The Internet of Things award, for instance, is not only a personal milestone - it is a signal that the sensor-driven economy described in SPEED had become a competitive field with hundreds of serious contenders.
Articles that extend the argument
Longer articles develop single ideas from the book in depth. They include reflections on the technological pandemic and how difficult days can lead to a better world, a two-part essay on diving backward into a sea of uncertainty, and pieces on cybersecurity crisis management during the coronavirus pandemic and on using artificial intelligence for Internet of Things applications. Each of them is written to stand on its own, but each also returns to the same underlying question of how an organisation keeps its footing while the ground moves.
Topics covered across the resource library
The published material is consistent in its focus, and it maps neatly onto the five points of the book, so a reader can move from a short news item to a deeper article and back without losing the thread:
| Resource topic | Representative angle |
|---|---|
| Digital twin | Faster product development and process optimisation |
| Internet of Things | IoT World Leader of the Year and sensor calibration at scale |
| Robotics | Partner supervision of the human in future work |
| Cybersecurity | Crisis management during the coronavirus pandemic |
| Leadership | Critical abilities of leaders managing rapid change |
Recurring commentary, a few themes
Reading across the library, several ideas recur and give the reader a feel for the author's position on the technologies that shape the decade:
- IoT is the factor that bridges the gap between model and reality, and the digital twin is currently the best opportunity manufacturers have to simulate and experiment.
- No organisation can manually calibrate hundreds of thousands of sensors, which is why artificial intelligence becomes a practical necessity rather than a novelty.
- The coronavirus would confirm and speed up certain processes that were already taking place, exactly the direction indicated in the book SPEED.
- Robots will operate under partner supervision of the human rather than replacing people outright.
- Book recommendations and awards are treated as signals that the argument is landing with practitioners.
These themes are not separate opinions collected over time. They are the same five points of the book, seen through the lens of whatever was happening in the world at the moment each piece was written, which is what makes the library a useful companion to the book rather than a duplicate of it.
How to use the resources
The most effective way to read these resources is beside the book itself. Start with the news item on the digital twin to see the future of industrial work, then read the two-part essay on uncertainty to understand the strategic frame, and finish with the cybersecurity and artificial intelligence pieces to see how the fifth point of SPEED is applied in practice. Every item is written to be read in a few minutes and to leave the reader with one usable idea they can carry into the next meeting.
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Recently added to the library
The newest material continues the pattern of the earlier pieces, taking a live event and reading it through the five points of the book. Recent additions discuss how the coronavirus would confirm and speed up processes that were already under way, how a webinar on transformation crystallised the critical abilities of leaders under pressure, and how the recommendation of SPEED to participants of a CIO of the Future session reflected a growing appetite for the argument in boardrooms.
Why these resources matter to a reader of the book
A book fixes its argument at the moment of writing; a library keeps it alive. Because the resources are dated and tied to real events, they let a reader check the author's judgement against what actually happened, from the maturation of the Internet of Things to the acceleration of digital projects during a global crisis. Read this way, the resources are not supplementary material but a continuing test of the book's central claim about speed.