Eric Schaeffer

Senior Managing Director, Accenture

Eric Schaeffer is Senior Managing Director at Accenture and leads Accenture’s Products Industry X.0 practice. This brings together services across innovation, engineering and product development, manufacturing and digital operations, and product support services optimization. He is also the Global Lead for automotive, industrial equipment and infrastructure companies for digitally reinventing their businesses and creating new levels of innovation and efficiency across the extended connected value chain.

Session Info

Wednesday, June 12 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm General Session

Industry X.0: Reinvent Your Products to Capture Growth in the New

We live in a world where technology is disrupting our lives, constantly changing customer needs and market demands. Now more than ever, companies need to transform their core to deliver new, innovative products and the seamless experiences expected by today's industrial customer. Soon enough, digital technology and software could be the only value drivers in hardware devices. That means core product lines and business functions not only need a major digital overhaul but an entirely new breed of "living" products: adaptable, responsive and collaborative hardware, that is more autonomous. To guide your product journey, we've created the Product Reinvention Grid (PRG), an analytics tool chart that maps out the Intelligence Quotient and an Experience Quotient of your product. Join us to hear Eric Schaeffer, Senior Managing Director Industrial & Industry X.0 at Accenture, detail the step-by-step roadmap to product reinvention and explore how some companies are already creating living products of their own.

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