Digital Platform and Ecosystem Strategies: Importance Among Manufacturers' Top 5 Strategic Business Priorities

Digital Platform and Ecosystem Strategies: Importance Among Manufacturers' Top 5 Strategic Business Priorities

This IDC Market Perspective highlights the importance of manufacturers' closer collaboration and integration with their customers, suppliers, and channel partners to execute on their top strategic business priorities, such as product and service innovation, sustainability, supply chain transformation, smart factory operations, and customer experience. This IDC Market Perspective leverages survey results from IDC's Manufacturing Insights Survey, published in November 2021, that involved 430+ manufacturers in Europe. The survey results are also complemented with market insights from numerous conversations and briefings with stakeholders in the European manufacturing industry."Executing on strategic business priorities will increasingly involve closer collaboration and integration with suppliers, customers, and channel partners. To help manufacturers execute on their business priorities, tech providers should enable their salesforce to not only understand the potential of technologies to address their customers business challenges, but also to understand the industry-specific business challenges and the ecosystems in which they operate," said Stefanie Naujoks, research director, IDC Manufacturing Insights.

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