the presentation shows good practices how enterprises can benefit from excellent cluster initiatives by receiving support to benefit from increasing Digitalization of industries. The presentation also highlights the importance of up to date service portfolios offered by cluster managements

1. Networks in a Digitalized World
- How Enterprises can Benefit in Times of
Industrial Transformation -
Dr. Gerd Meier zu Köcker
14 October 2015

2. Upcoming Challenges
New framework
conditionsfor
enterprises
New Nature of
Innovation
New innovation
behaviour

3. How Digitalization will Change
Enterprises‘ Business
 Heterogeneousindustry trends in Digitalization:‘tale of two industries’
– Digitalservices and products based on traditional businessmodels and
establishedtechnologies begin waning.
 Digital transformation of services is a cross-sectoral trend
– The ongoing transformations in sectors are driven by interplayof different
innovativetechnologiesand will effect majority of industries.
 Advancementsin the telecom sector fuel the development of digital-based
services
 Start-ups challenge and stimulate established companies
 Readinessof user industries is a key factor for further growth
 Scaling up of digital services offers opportunitiesfor early
internationalisation
 Mutual learning in networks is vital
 Clear rules about data security and privacy are needed
 Usage of public open data possesses untappedeconomic potential

4. Equipping for External Change
Compared to other potential
areas of change, CEOs are most
focused on enablingexternal
collaboration
(vgl.: IBM Institute for Business Value 2012: Führen durch Vernetzung, S. 44)

5. Target-orientedCooperation
with External Matters
69%
55%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80%
2012
2008
 69 % of CEOs innovate preferably
with external partners
(vgl.: IBM Institute for Business Value 2012: Führen durch Vernetzung, S. 44)

6. Outperformers Wield a Data
Edge
Acrossthe three dimensionsof access, insights and action,
outperformers far surpass underperformingpeers

7. 7
Innovations Generated
within a Network **
 Aim
Enablinghandicapped peopleto driver their own cars
 Technical solution
X-by-wire System* for handicapped users, which is in full compliancewith safety
requirements(Straßenverkehrsordnung)
 Winner of the High-Tech AwardCyberOne of bw:con
 * von PARAVAN®

8. Networking Matters….
…. but what do they offer ?

9. Why to Join a Network ?
• Clear objectives
• Specific expectations
• Excellent Network
Management
• Specific Strategy
• Trust
• Tailor-madeservices /
added values
• Doesn‘t matter if
benefits and
probability arehigh

10. Networks Today Provide More than
just Meetings and Networking
Service portfolio of advanced network managements

11. Services Provided by Excellent
Network Managements

12. How Enterprises can Benefit

13. How Networks Can Create Winners in
Time of Digitalization
DigitalDesign
and production
planning
Virtual Reality
Network

14. – The Ideal Case –
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15. Coatings SensorsActors
PrintingICT
Enabling Access to New Value Chains

16. Dr. Gerd Meier zu Köcker
Managing Director
Cluster Agentur Baden-Württemberg
Stuttgart
Germany
E-Mail: mzk@clusteragentur-bw.de
Further readings:
www.clusterportal-bw.de