The increasingly connected world offers many potentials for companies to drive growth and profitability with customer-value solutions. Many R&D organizations are in the midst of transforming from traditional product/technology providers to solution providers in order to generate effective solutions to complex problems for their customers. In addition to a pronounced customer centricity and increased innovation capability, adaptability as well as mastering the increasing complexity of the portfolio are essential aspects for the transformation. This also means changes in the way solutions are developed efficiently and how R&D organizations must position themselves to do so.

In our expert forum, we would like to discuss with you the challenges, success factors and best practices on the way to becoming a solution provider, based on exciting contributions from different perspectives and industries.

What can you expect at the expert forum?

The following key questions will be the focus of the keynote presentations and discussions:

• How will we develop customer-value solutions in the future?
• What will change for traditional product manufacturers?
• How do we need to position ourselves to develop solutions efficiently in the future?
  (development logic, processes / methods / tools, organization, partnerships)
• How do we manage the increasing complexity in the portfolio (platforms, applications, variants)?
• How do we integrate new / digital functions into our existing product portfolio?
• What are the consequences in terms of portfolio design and pricing?
• How do you deal with the challenges regarding customer data?
• How do we monetize the additional customer and usage data?

In our expert forum, we would like to share experiences and discuss success factors with you and other experts with implementation expertise. Look forward to exciting contributions from different perspectives and industries.

When: Thursday, September 21, 2023 08:30 am– 04:30 pm 00 Check-In at 8:00 am
Where: Talent Gardens Vienna, Lichtensteinstraße 111-115 1090 Vienna, Austria

The circle of participants of the expert forum consists of selected experts from different industries – the number of participants is therefore limited. Attendance is free of charge.