Redesigning the real from the ground up

Reshaping the real from the ground up, with far-reaching consequences for companies and business models. The physical and virtual worlds are growing ever closer together.

Key questions that affect companies in this context:

• Are our IT systems prepared for these challenges?
• How can we make our software fit for the digital world?
• And how do we make our company fit for the new business models that digitization brings?

Adesso, which I support as an advisory board member, has the answers to these questions. This is how we accompany companies on their way to becoming a digital company; from the initial brainstorming in the "Interaction Room: digital" to the implementation of completely new processes and technologies.

Among other things, we apply our best practices from software development in the areas of Big Data, Business Process Management (BPM) and from Internet-of-Things (IoT) projects.

Cooperation between IT and business department

How can business and IT departments work together better when developing solutions for competition-critical business processes? How can incorrectly implemented requirements and, in the worst case, the loss of the common project vision be avoided?

Adesso's Interaction Room (IR) provides the answers to these questions and much more. The Interaction Room pursues a very simple goal: to enable business and IT experts to talk to each other better.

This is achieved through a non-IT-oriented, visual representation of processes. In preliminary discussions, the questions to be answered are defined, which are then worked out together in workshops.

The Interaction Room serves as a tool for awakening the creativity and problem-solving skills of employees. At the same time, the team documents the results in the IR.

From now on, communication problems are a thing of the past. The concept of Adesso's IR takes the term "room" literally here; it is a real room with walls. The latter play a central role, defining the framework for the project and the most important topics.

Everything is connected

The force of the digital transformation becomes clear when we look at the networking of physical everyday objects. Because every machine, every household appliance, every car that is connected to the Internet is more than just an object with an IP address.

For each of these physical objects, unimagined possibilities are opening up, completely new processes are conceivable, and additional, new business models are emerging: from real-time monitoring and predictive maintenance to completely new business models such as pay-per-use concepts (e.g., car-sharing offers) or self-service (e.g., automatic reordering).

The requirements for security, maintainability and scalability are at the heart of many projects. The Internet of Things will have an extraordinary impact on most companies, both technically and socially/economically. We are at the forefront here and are not just waiting to see what comes out of the US.

Big Data is also on everyone's lips. Companies can often gain new insights from the treasure trove of data already available - through clever evaluation.

Whether this results in optimization potentials in production or new sales opportunities, the possibilities are manifold, but are not sufficiently exploited by every company.