Ulf  kicked offed the afternoon by putting a limelight on the importance of digitizing the tactical and strategic layers of the enterprise. He stated that this gives us totally new possibilities to drive a competitive enterprise by exploring and exploiting the human intelligence, in combination with all the data that is generated inside and around today’s businesses. To do this a next generation knowledge technology is required that has the ability to capture expert knowledge in the form of knowledge blocks. These knowledge blocks can be simply interlocked into an unlimited number of new digital capabilities by business people themselves, without any prior experience of programming. “You can start almost anywhere reducing the digital risk of not digitizing your business fast enough, benefiting the efficiency and effectiveness potential that lies in combining human intelligence, information and data”.

From classical craftsmanship to a digital knowledge builder

Peab want to have the capability of continuously test and proactively adapt their business models to continuously changing market needs. “We need to be relevant now and in the future and all our stakeholders want to see Peab as a strong profitable competitor within the construction industry”

Peab see the journey in three steps:
1) Increasing the knowledge capital for reuse – Peab goes from tacit knowledge to easy accessible common knowledge by digitize all their processes and creates navigators to deliver easily accessible common valuable knowledge.

2) Make digital reusable buildings models and building components – Peab will be able to reused digital components in new projects to help them build smarter and find new methods This means transforming from today’s project focus to a product focus, on top of a smart digital platform.

3) Explore and exploit new digital technology to design new value offers and new arenas for customer meetings

Patrik told us about the journey to actionable value chain insights to become the Intelligent Enterprise: Focus on using a smart digital platform to connect databases and reuse product data taxonomy. Involve the business and let them be a a part of the process and drive it. Simplify and improve interface for users so they can keep the data clean & fresh with high quality. Share and learn from other companies that tested different solutions.

Tove Nilstun made it clear to all of us, with a hands on experience, how she was able in 8 minutes to created an extended capability to manage risk in a change portfolio by adding an existing knowledge block about certain trends.

• Digitization of knowledge intensive processes made simple and augmenting the capability to transform business faster and more precise.
• Digital Transformation is a dimension that should reflect through the entire Change portfolio to minimize risk for not making the right investments.
• Digitalize knowledge right from the beginning so you only have to do it once and then reuse it in subsequent digitalization projects.
  Define and use your Business Capabilities as a language to execute the business right, but also to ensure that you execute the right business.

Stefan presented the concept of “Corporate Brain” platform, a disruptive technology transforming individuals into team players interacting upon shared and continuously evolving knowledge; team players taking advantage of new technology where it is superior to human capability and, not the least, taking advantage of human capability where its superior to machine technology. The intelligent enterprise is a matter of collaboration between humans and machines where both are doing what they are best suited for. There is a great potential in this new era of collaborative augmented intelligence made possible by new technology to depict our business environments in a more precise and multifaceted way.