You only need to think of the organic farm in Aalst that asks citizens to help with investment in solar panels on their roofs or Smart City Antwerp that captures and analyzes data on an open platform.
Co-creation will therefore rightly be the business model that you will use in the future to safeguard your business in a digital world.
Realdolmen organized an event about co-creation where speakers from different areas came together to explain their vision of collaboration.
Why co-creation?
Innovation is not an idea. Innovation is what you do with the idea.
Rudy Lefèvre immediately stated an important precondition for successful co-creation. As the founder of U-Factory he is extremely well-placed to explain the importance of co-creation. U-Factory is a platform where entrepreneurs can give each other peer-to-peer support for developing ideas.
He stresses that "managing numerators" is no longer enough to enable a company to grow. Saving costs is good, but cannot be continued indefinitely without creating problems for the company. The future is only assured by "managing denominators": adding new ideas and applying them to create value.
We now find ourselves in a "vuca" world: volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. Just focusing on costs is therefore no longer enough. We also need to create added value. But "value design" is really difficult to do on your own. With different players all sitting round the table we can create new values.
By developing new ideas in an agile manner with co-creation, risks are significantly reduced. It is a business model that is unexplored territory for many companies. But as Lefèvre so rightly says: "Co-creation means embracing uncertainty and letting go of control".
Co-creation in the maintenance-sector
Martin Smit, Business Development Manager at Rimses and Karin Peeters, Senior Presales Consultant at Rimses as well as Geert Nies from Thor Maintenance all confirm the need for new business models in the changed industrial landscape.
The huge behemoth companies of the past have been split up over the last few years into ever smaller and more specialized units. The most problematic result with "numerator management" is the steady decrease in the number of technically trained employees available. In far too many businesses it leads to a typical firefighting mentality.
As KPMG experts note: the connectivity of the fourth industrial revolution presents companies with major challenges.
MaaS – Maintenance as a Service
The top 10% of the fastest growing companies are not production companies, they are companies that share something on a platform.
The solution once again lies in collaboration and knowledge sharing. So Maas – Maintenance as a Service therefore appears to be the logical step.
A platform in Azure Cloud where companies, technicians, suppliers of replacement parts, regulators etc. can share information, knowledge, procedures and resources. And where data is collected from all over and analyzed in order to achieve proactive and predictive maintenance.
Realdolmen therefore enthusiastically calls on the maintenance sector to work using co-creation on this new business model.
Big data in the maintenance sector
Data has become the heart of the organization.
There can be no doubt that big data is important. In the maintenance sector "Asset performance analytics" certainly lead to efficiency and lower costs. Analysis specialist Adriaan Van Horenbeek from SAS explains how the SAS analysis tool, in combination with Rimses, for example, can make a difference.
Interested? You can download the presentations of our event that took place on 26/01/2017 here. (all presentations are in Dutch)
You can find more info about software for maintenance and field service on the Rimses-website.
If you are interested in the MaaS-platform, or would like to share your ideas in a personal discussion, please contact Martin Smit, Business Development Manager Rimses on Martin.Smit@realdolmen.com.