Over the past weeks, I have been thinking about the impact Covid-19 is going to have on the Industrial sector.. to a large extent I think of this pandemic more as an accelerant than as a change-agent. In that its not necessarily going to lead to new themes developing, but massively increase the speed of adoption of what was already coming, and push some of these transformations much higher on the agenda of the executives.
A key word which I think will define the upcoming digital disruption is Hybrid.
- So traditional industrial products are going to have to evolve fairly rapidly into hybrid products & services delivering their value across both the physical and digital realms.
- Manufacturing will become hybrid between traditional and additive
- Supply chains going hybrid between global and local, and last but not the least
- Resources will be humans augmented by Cognitive processes and systems.
We make sense of the possibilities in conversation with Sven Strassburg (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sven-strassburg-a142441/), the European Architect of Watson IoT.