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