platform economy entering the industrial internet  - the new tech leader - eco systems 2030 

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Digital Demo Day - 4000+ participants in Düsseldorf 🎪

I was great speaking at the Digital Demo Day 2020 on February 13th, which is the biggest startup show & conference for tech startups in Germany.

My keynote theme was: 'The platform economy entering the industrial internet'.

Over 4.000 innovative minds from corporates, SMEs, startups, universities and investors and experienced the digital future! Besides a great main programme, there was also a start-up stage and an enormous tech fair! 

My interview on 'The Speaker Show’ 🎤🎧

Sean Pillot de Chenecey interviews Ramon Vullings, author of ‘Not Invented Here’. A cross-industry expert and ‘ideaDJ’, Ramon shares how he helps leaders with strategies, tools and skills to look beyond the borders of their domain, to transform their business in a smarter way.

Topics we discussed:

• Ramon’s current book: cross-industry innovation
• Using innovation to stay ahead
• Innovating events
• Ramon’s next book: ideaDJ strategy

The five traits of a transformative CIO - McKinsey Digital 📲

As technology becomes increasingly important, an organisation’s success depends on whether the CIO can move from being a functional to a strategic business leader.

For IT to become a driver of value, the transformative CIO also needs a new set of skills and capabilities that embody a more expansive role.

In working on tech transformations with hundreds of CIOs, McKinsey Digital identified five CIO traits that they believe are markers of success: 

1. Business leader
2. Change agent
3. Talent scout
4. Culture revolutionary
5. Tech translator

Not invented here! 📕🙏🤘An international best seller!  

By the way, my current international best-selling book 'not invented here: cross-industry innovation’ is available in 5 languages and has over 50.000 copies sold! 📕🙏🤘

Did you know that each chapter of the book ends with a tool you can use directly? You can find a select set of digital versions of the tools here! 🛠

BE Conference - cross-industry insights for the event industry! 🎪

Always great to speak in my home town of Antwerp!

‘Innovation cannot survive in isolation’, therefore we want to create the cross-industry platform for exchange and aha-moments. 

The theme and the main mission of the upcoming BE Conference - April 2nd 2020 @ Antwerp - is to unlock the innovation potential by looking outside of a standard event industry.

The cross-industry innovation manifesto! 📜

Keeping up with the best practices of your industry is not good enough anymore if you want to stay relevant in this fast-changing competitive business world. We need professionals who are willing to cross borders (of departments, silos and even industries).

The cross-industry manifesto has 21 statements to help you boost out of your silo! Download the (free) cross-industry innovation manifesto!

Ecosystems 2030 - Transforming the future together! 🎪  

I’m happy and honoured to speak at Ecosystems 2030 (Granada, Spain @ 3-5 June ‘20)!

Ecosystems 2030 is the premier interdisciplinary forum for top executives, thought leaders and futurists to discuss the ecosystems emerging over the next 10 years from technologies including Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Systems, Fintech, 3D Printing, Robotics and Virtual / Augmented Reality.

The summit will focus on the upcoming opportunities and challenges these technologies present and offer important insights on how to transform your organisation and remain relevant in the next decade. For all details & registration, see: es2030.com

PS: There is also a cool VIP corporate retreat package available, please contact Chloe!

TEDx: Everything is fixable 🛠
My good friend Johan D’Haeseleer is expert in personal efficiency and -my favourite name for him- ‘Experiman’ explains in his great TEDx talk that ‘Everything is fixable’. Is it? 

Where does most (digital) disruption come from? ⚡️  

Well, people are very mixed in their answers…

Some say directly: 'Start-ups!’ Some say, it must be ‘Companies from other sectors’ as you are the cross-industry innovation guy, some say 'for sure tech giants’ and some say ’Nope, the major industry players’.

Let’s talk Start-ups
Indeed the media loves the ‘David against Goliath’ myth, the small start-up disrupting entire sectors. And indeed there are a few start-ups who are successfully doing that. In many cases these start-ups are acquired before they really gain traction. 

Tech Giants maybe?
Then the tech giants, indeed for certain specific sectors we see great disruption. 

Companies from other sectors, surely!?
What I experience in many cases is that indeed the approaches from companies from other sectors are being implemented by the incumbents, the major industry players

Major industry players (incumbents)..?
So this leaves the major industry players… these (innovative) major players have the access to market and supply chain abilities to act at scale. The smart incumbents do the following:

1. They buy or invest in start-ups, do their own venturing and are actively scouting for new opportunities
2. They take an active approach to see where & how they can (not) work with the tech giants and their platforms
3. They do cross-industry innovation to apply novel approaches from other sectors into their own (or adjacent) sectors

These insights are nicely outlined in the IBM Institute for Business Value report: ’The incumbents strike back’. The report is based on conversations with more than 12,854 CxOs worldwide, of which 3457 from Europe , it’s the most comprehensive study of its kind.

So the (surprising) answer -according to IBM IBV- to the question 'Where does most (digital) disruption come from?’ Is: The incumbents, the (innovative) major industry players! ✅ Yet, indeed most novel ideas(!) come from startups..! 

Thanks for your time & attention! 🙏🏻  

Looking forward to see how you use some of the insights to boost  your business! 

Ramon Vullings is an international speaker, ideaDJ and author on cross-industry innovation. 
Ramon helps business leaders to look beyond the borders of their domain to innovate in a smarter way.
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