In today’s wired world, just about every behavior or action we take – clicks, views, purchases, shares, emails, even phone calls – creates a powerful digital roadmap for marketers to target customers with even more refined messages to help drive purchases and build loyalty. Yet while this burgeoning data network holds tremendous promise, it is fragmented and one-dimensional. For instance, Stop & Shop has no inkling of what I buy during my regular fill-in trips to Trader Joe’s. Walgreens is oblivious to my online shaving product purchases. What I “like” on Facebook is a total mystery to Google. Just think how far marketers could go with sentient computing where digital devices “speak” to each other and our brand interactions are shaped less by our digital footprints as by what we do. As a possible sign of things to come, Amazon Dash is inching us towards a more interconnected digital reality. With Dash, consumers use a sleek “wand” to scan barcodes on kitchen items they need to replenish, creating a pattern of shopping behaviors against which Amazon could then market to customers with automated product suggestions to help re-stock the pantry. It’s not much of a leap to envision Dash operating at the center of interconnected homes – the refrigerator that informs Dash of the need to refill kitchen staples or the washing machine that triggers a greater supply of Tide when the kids return from college. Not to mention what is to come with Amazon’s new Fire Phone. Still, there are a number of operational challenges that marketers need to address to truly bring the Internet of Things to fruition. On a macro level, many marketers reside in a digital world built on legacy marketing approaches, structures and behaviors, a challenge that demands its own solutions. But some early navigation to a more interconnected consumer experience might include the following steps to aggregate consumer and shopper data and ultimately create more personalized experiences.