Digital opportunities & roadmap
With the emergence of new business challenges and new technological opportunities, how to build a relevant and realistic roadmap?
Xavier Brucker
Partner (Paris) | Polytechnique MIT
Markus Ripping
Partner (Hamburg) | Technische Universität Berlin
Patrick Cordes
Partner (Munich) | Technical University Darmstadt
“A digital roadmap makes it possible to unite all players around a solid and shared vision, while promoting synergies between the various initiatives.”
Xavier Brucker
Polytechnique MIT
A graduate of Ecole Polytechnique (X 1996), Telecom ParisTech (2001) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT 2002), Xavier combines several international experiences with industry companies and start-ups. After a career in strategy consulting, he led a major defense program at Safran and then became director of the e-commerce and payments division of EquensWorldline. Xavier then spent several years in California, in the heart of start-up companies in Los Angeles and Silicon Valley. Upon his return to France, Xavier joined a Fintech start-up, which he supported in its growth. Today, within Mews Partners, he develops offers related to data science and artificial intelligence, which have become a real strategic challenge for industry and services. Furthermore, he writes on the topic of the scaling up of AI and smart factory in the blog of the experts from l’Usine Nouvelle.
Markus Ripping
Technische Universität Berlin
Markus has a Master of Science in Aeronautics, Astronautics & Transportation Technologies from Technische Universität Berlin.
He spent 13 years in Consulting at Prostep and Accenture working in cross-domain PLM, (Engineering) Process Optimization and Business Process Outsourcing, DMU & VR/AR. Markus focusses on international & multi-site collaboration, extended enterprise and M&A/PMI and their impact on Engineering and IT. His primary Industry know-how lies in Aerospace, Shipbuilding & Life Sciences. In the two and a half years before joining Mews Markus worked at Sartorius Stedim Biotech, a manufacturer of bio-pharmaceutical supplies and lab instruments, as Global PLM Process Owner and Manager “Idea to Product”.
He is currently an Associate Partner for Mews in Germany leading our Hamburg office.
Patrick Cordes
Technical University Darmstadt
Patrick has a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering & Information Technology with a specialization in Mechatronics from Technical University Darmstadt.
He has more then 10 years experience in consulting, first at BearingPoint, then since 2015 with Mews Partners. Patrick supports our clients in their Digitalization & PLM-journey with focus on the topics (model based) Systems engineering, R&D and Process efficiency. He combines knowledge from various industry sectors such as Automotive, high-tech Electronics, Space down to Utilities with his broad skills in the areas Agile, Lean, Solution Architecture, Business- & Project management as well as Cultural Change Management.
Patrick is leading our Space offer for Germany and working out of Darmstadt for our Munich Office.
The establishment of a digital roadmap must become a strategic activity that will guide the evolution of the company and the products and services that it offers on the market. This roadmap must take into account the company’s medium to long-term challenges, the maturity of the solutions considered, the company’s ability to evolve towards the proposed solutions and the positioning of key competitors on the market.
The need to adopt a digital roadmap
The digital roadmap must be part of the company’s master plan and benefit from high-level sponsorship. It must be established in consultation with the management, the business lines and IT. A detailed knowledge of the market’s digital solutions as well as feedback from the sector’s industries is a key element to feed into the reflection. In addition, a diagnosis of the company’s digital maturity will also help to establish the most appropriate strategy, both in terms of technical choices, development approaches and scenarios.