Ricardo Goncalves from UNINOVA, Portugal presented on the topic of digital enterprises at the FInES Cluster Meeting on May 6th, 2013. Some of the key points made in the presentation included that digital enterprises look to gain competitive advantages using digital technologies, take advantage of innovation opportunities online, and anticipate changes using technologies like ambient intelligence and the Internet of Everything. Additionally, the presentation discussed how digital enterprises must be flexible and adaptive organizations capable of quickly responding to changing market conditions. Finally, the presentation argued that implementing digital enterprise strategies provides a valuable opportunity for European businesses to stimulate innovation, compete globally, and create new "blue ocean" market spaces.

1. PRESENTERS: Ricardo Goncalves
rg@uninova.pt
UNINOVA, Portugal
FInES Cluster MeetingFInES Cluster Meeting
Brussels, May 6Brussels, May 6thth
, 2013, 2013

2. PRESENTER: Ricardo Goncalves (rg@uninova.pt)

3. 0 Digital Enterprise
0 an organization that looks forward to getting important advantage over its
competitors, using digital technology in internal/external operations
0 takes full advantage of the net potential for innovation
0 promotes novel ways of generating value (using state of the art ICT) that
would be insurmountable to achieve otherwise
0 is capable of anticipating through the combination of ambient intelligence
with Internet of Everything, along with the network effect
0 Conduct business and innovate in an ever-changing environment
0 more challenging than ever
0 difficulties to adapt quickly to meet the new changing market conditions
0 reduced holistic view for decision-making, lack of strategies for feedback
and adaptation, dependence on non-robust strategic support models
0 Enterprises are Complex Adaptive Systems
0 must develop flexibility to potentiate its knowledge in response to
opportunities and competitive pressures towards innovation
0 enable a constantly ‘learning enterprise’ to become hubs for innovation
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4. 0 Under an appropriate strategy, and guided by a suitable
technological framework and business vision, it will bring:
0 valuable opportunity to fight against the financial crises
0 stimulate the companies to innovate and be competitive in global market
0 strongest opportunities to face their competitors.
0 Europe will stimulate enterprises
0 on the adoption of technologies and practices to reach the future vision of
business based on collaborative networked environments
0 prepares industry and researchers to advance on the state of the art
0 establish solid proposals for the European industry in general.
0 Enable European companies
0 to readapt their processes, decision networks and strategies
0 become more agile & knowledgeable on themselves, and about the others
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5. 0 The Europe’s opportunity is on a “blue ocean”
0 through the implementation of the Digital Enterprise concept.
0 The value level of this Europe’s opportunity
0 measures the utility that Digital Enterprise has for European stakeholders
in its strategic positioning and strategy,
0 companies competing on blue ocean strategies simultaneously pursue
differentiation and low cost.
0 Create new market spaces or a “blue ocean”
0 making the competition not the focus of relevance
0 achieve it through value innovation by the implementation of the Digital
Enterprise concept
0 introducing radical innovations in the products, services, processes, etc.,
that are genuinely valued by customers.
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6. 0 Online engagement
0 take-up/use of Digital Enterprise concept by the European businesses.
0 Bring new stakeholders in developing visions of net innovation
0 Enable and demonstrate innovative services for businesses and
citizens
0 build upon the most advanced functionalities of the net.
0 Explore and pioneer novel forms of technological and digital societal
innovation which use the full potential of the network effect.
0 Unleash the European talent and the great resources
0 innovative and disruptive business ideas based on the latest ICT.
0 Manage and control the continuous acceleration of the
enterprise changes rate
0 decision making and response autonomously, less human intervention.
0 Encourage enterprises to move seamlessly between the digital
and physical business world
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7. 0 Provide innovation-oriented enterprise production platforms
0 integrating Complex Systems Modelling and flexible execution and
collaboration platforms
0 Respond to the need for enterprises to
0 re-configure and re-prioritise processes
0 decision networks and strategies on the fly
0 become enterprises intelligently self-organising in real-time.
0 Deliver dynamic decision support architectures
0 drawing seamlessly on external/internal sources of knowledge
0 facilitate focused decision capability.
0 Enable Digital Enterprises to be proactive rather than reactive
0 capitalise on opportunities and optimise its response in the advent of
changes (adaptive philosophy).
0 Outline applications for the Sensing Enterprise
0 enhance the global and physical context awareness of business systems
0 development of services and solutions supported by smart components
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8. 0 Develop novel sustainable/adaptive framework along the to-be
born and net-based innovative enterprise life cycle.
0 Create next generation strategy for Digital Enterprise efficiency.
0 through Smart Automation and Smart Optimization approaches
0 Infuse the agile philosophy in the enterprise managers and
stakeholders
0 Think Fast, Move Fast, Fail Fast, Learn Fast, Succeed Fast
0 Keep focus on the Blue Ocean.
0 Fortify the perspectives of Business Innovation
0 Stimulate innovative SMEs, including Web entrepreneurs
0 Empower web-entrepreneurship (unleashing its full potential).
0 Support and enhance cooperative networking.
0 through their entire lifecycle and enabled by sensing capabilities
0 Take-up/use by European businesses of the research results
0 Do not develop “yet another framework”
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9. PRESENTERS: Ricardo Goncalves (rg@uninova.pt)
UNINOVA, Portugal
CONTRIBUTORS: Ricardo Goncalves, Fenareti Lampathaki

10. PRESENTERS: Ricardo Goncalves (rg@uninova.pt)
UNINOVA, Portugal
CONTRIBUTORS: Ricardo Goncalves, Fenareti Lampathaki