AVEVA is partnering with IMD, one of the world’s leading business schools, on a ground-breaking program of research highlighting the power of business ecosystems to drive growth, productivity and decarbonization.
Drawing on original research with industrial leaders from around the world, the partnership will provide insights into how industrial intelligence is enabling businesses to collaborate more effectively across the value chain to elevate performance.
Our flagship annual publication, the Industrial Intelligence Report, is a deep dive into how leading organizations are harnessing digital insights to power new and smarter ways of working. The report is planned for publication in May 2026.
AVEVA CEO Caspar Herzberg and IMD President David Bach inaugurate the strategic partnership to advance industrial intelligence research
What is industrial intelligence?
At AVEVA and IMD, we define Industrial Intelligence as the dynamic integration of data-driven insights, enhanced with industrial AI and human expertise, to solve complex challenges faster, within and even between organizations, and envision valuable new potential.
What are business ecosystems?
Business ecosystems are networks of interdependent stakeholders—suppliers, distributors, partners, customers and regulators—who collaborate to create new, mutual value through shared infrastructure, information and insights.
These teams commit to mobilizing and enabling resources dynamically across their organizations. Together, they tackle complex, higher-order business problems and develop opportunities that could not be effectively achieved by any one participant alone.
IMD research team
Professor Annabelle Gawer
Annabelle Gawer is a visiting professor at IMD and Chaired Professor in Digital Economy at the University of Surrey Business School in the UK, where she also serves as the Director of the Centre of Digital Economy (CoDE).
She is a pioneering researcher who works closely with businesses and governments on the business of digital platforms and ecosystems. Her seminal research explains how firms can win in the age of digital competition. She has published four books and more than 40 articles in top international academic journals and for managerial and policy audiences. She is a digital expert for the UK Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) and has advised the European Commission and Parliament, the UK House of Lords, the OECD, and the World Bank.
Professor Mark Greeven
Mark Greeven is Professor of Management Innovation and Dean of Asia. He draws on a decade of experience in research, teaching, and consulting in China to explore how to organize innovation in a turbulent world. He was included in the Thinkers50 Ranking (2023) and named on the Thinkers50 Radar list of 30 Next Generation Business Thinkers in 2017. Greeven has collaborated with innovative Chinese companies (including Ping An, Alibaba, Pinduoduo, and Haier) and entrepreneurial multinationals (including Bayer, Evonik, Johnson & Johnson, Daimler, Nestlé, Richemont, and Swiss Re) to explore novel ways of organizing, accelerating corporate innovation, enabling digital business transformation, and designing business ecosystems to thrive on uncertainty.
Konstantinos Trantopoulos
Konstantinos Trantopoulos is an Advisor and Research Fellow at IMD, partnering with CXOs and senior leaders across global markets on strategy, corporate development, innovation, restructuring and turnarounds, and digital transformation programs. His current work focuses on how organizations can leverage artificial intelligence to create and capture value. His insights have been featured in leading outlets such as Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, MIS Quarterly, Το Βήμα, and Forbes. Konstantinos is also the co-author of Twin Transformation, available on Amazon. He holds a PhD in Management (Strategy) from ETH Zurich, awarded with highest honors.
Professor Michael Wade
Michael Wade is the TONOMUS Professor of Strategy and Digital, and the Director of the TONOMUS Global Center for Digital and AI Transformation. An expert in digital transformation, he has published 10 books and more than 100 case studies as well as articles on topics such as digital business transformation, innovation, strategy, and digital leadership. In 2021, he was elected to the Digital Shapers Hall of Fame by a consortium of Swiss business media and launched the Management under the Microscope podcast, in which he unpacks business myths through conversations with academics and business executives.
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