Top Thought Leadership topics of 2018

The Thought Leadership blog and program have experienced incredible growth since launching three years ago, but this year has been especially noteworthy.
We continue to highlight many new trends …

Realise the power of the dirty digital twin

While presenting at a recent digitalisation conference in the United Kingdom, I asked the question of over 200 people in the audience, “Who uses digitalisation in your companies right now?” All 200 h…

Effective change management in enterprise architecture

By: Alex Allison and Josh Ray 

By modernizing their enterprise systems architecture, manufacturers can start to reimagine their businesses, take advantage of new and disruptive techno…

How the digital factory made an eyewear company competitive

In 2015, the World Economic Forum launched the Digital Transformation Initiative. This initiative assessed digitalization’s impact on 13 industries, including automotive, consumer and logistics, and …

Key skills to design future car travel experiences

What does the engineering team look like that will create the experiences that future cars will deliver?
It will take a diverse set of OEMs and suppliers, from multiple industries like textiles a…

Establish your manufacturing process and collaboration plan

By: Wolfgang Schloegl and Christian Heck 

The ability to analyze and plan the process for manufacturing your product is crucial.

Product manufacturing is entirely different…

The challenges with autonomous vehicle testing

One of the most critical aspects of autonomous car design, due to their complexity, is that you will never be able to physically test all possible accident scenarios. This is why simulation is so imp…

Future-ready framework for enterprise system architecture

By: Alex Allison and Josh Ray 

Effectively managing and updating your enterprise system architecture, the overall IT system architecture of an organization, is key to competitive busi…

First steps to the future car travel experience

If the future of the car travel experience includes customizable, diverse travel, what’s happening in the marketplace that shows the first sign of this trend?

The interior will no longer b…