The Connected Business Community

The overview of SMECluster ConceptGash Bhullar

14th November at Waterton Centre UK

AGENDA

Main Conference• 09:00 - 09:10 Welcome and Introduction Gash Bhullar• 09:10 - 09:15 Towards Horizon 2020 for SME’s Keith Popplewell• 09:20 - 0930 Horizon 2020 – EU Commission Pierre MarroRoom W2• 09:30 - 09:45 Rationalising Mundane Tasks Simon Osborne• 09:45 - 10:00 Tomorrows Learning Angharad Brown• 10:00 - 10:15 Expanding Brokerage Opportunities Phil Spooner & Sean Hamill• 10:15 - 10:45 Coffee/Tea Break/Demos• 10:45 - 11:00 Setting New Quality Standards Rose Burridge• 11:00 - 11:15 Sustainable SMART Factories Sukhvinder Bhullar• 11:15 - 11:30 Jelly and Cluster Matthew Smith• 11:30 - 12:00 Summary and Close Gash BhullarCanteen• 12:00 - 12:30 LunchMain Conference• Demos and Networking

A down to earth approach to forthcoming changes in business life, with an insight into future trends in culture and technologies. Get up to date with the latest buzzwords and let us demystify common misconceptions.

Topics Covered:

Global SME link-up, Social Media in a Nutshell, Future Trends in Procurement , User Friendliness - The Lost Art, Save your Business in the Cloud, Connecting factory processes to the Cloud, Technology - Fast and Furious

Initial Launch of SMECluster:Cloud Computing & Factory Automation:Taking Business into the Next GenerationThursday 17th November 2011 – Waterton Centre

Taking Business to the next Generation

Small / Medium Enterprise

Products / Services

CustomersSuppliers

Marketing

Information flow

Products / Services

Information flow

Marketing

Social Media Social MediaDATA COLLECTION / PROTECTION

DATA NONITORING / COLLECTION / PROTECTION

DATA NONITORING / COLLECTION / PROTECTION

TENDER OPPORTUNITIES

Enterprise Bus and Cloud Services

•Survey on Cloud Computing

• Not robust enough for critical apps

• Performance/response times

• May cost more

• Not enough ability to customise

• Security

• Regulatory requirement restrictions

• Hard to integrate with in-house IT

• Availability/service provider uptime

eWeekEurope November 2011

“Brits Find Big Brands On Social Networks A Turn-Off”

New research has suggested that British Internet users resent big brands invading social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. This could be a wake-up call for companies like Facebook and Google+ which rely on lucrative brand pages and targeted advertising for their income.

eWeekEurope November 10, 2011

2011 Barriers to Collaboration - Technology

2011 Summary

• The Business-to-Business (B2B) network of the future will begin to take shape in the next 12 months.

• Supplier Network technology will be at the core.

• Monetisation by adding value where value is actually created (e.g., no transaction fees).

• Supplier discovery services go beyond RFX to provide detailed insights on suppliers

• Sourcing will combine and aggregate third party information sources.

• All should provide basic supplier enablement, management, registration services to manage

•All in a many-to-many manner.

Buyer Buyer Buyer

Supplier Network

Supplier Supplier SupplierBu

sine

ss

Info

rmati

on Social Enterprise

The Predictions

From data sharing to intelligent collaboration

Data Knowledge Collaboration

Growing need for intelligent support

Growing need for flexibility

Growing complexity

queries

integration

IT issues

KM tools

Knowledge retrieval

Semantic web

IT/human issues

Knowledge modelling platforms

Collaboration models

Communication

Context management

Dynamic network reconfiguration

IT/human/social issues

environmental data

Based on slides by Dr Bob Young, Loughborough University

The Connected Business Community

An overview of Horizon 2020 for SMEsKeith Popplewell

14th November at Waterton Centre UK

2003 2006 2008

Working Environments

SERVICESEnterpriseIntegration

Enterprise Service Bus

PRODUCTS

COSPACES

SYNERGYSTASIS

SHAREPOINT – PETALS - OTHER

VLABGLOBAL HUMAN

RESOURCE___________

KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORY

RESEARCH

ROADMAP

TANET – UK POLE

TANET’S STRATEGY

HEADING TOWARDS THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

TANET’S STRATEGY

HEADING TOWARDS THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 >2020

SERVICES

Enterprise Service Bus

ROADMAP

FACTORIES of the

FUTURE

SMECLUSTER

MultipleSERVICES

FITMAN

Configuration Services for FlexibleDynamic Production Networks

Software as a Service “SaaS”

Platform as a Service “PaaS”

SEMATRONIX

Future Strategy

CONTROL 2K

Technology and Services Provider

TANETEU Project Management

Portfolio Portfolio

FLEXEWEB INDUSTREWEB

IT Services

Legal Entity

IT Expertise

SMECLUSTER

Strategy and Vision

Interop-VlabCollaborative Operations

INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS

NATIONAL / EU OPERATIONS

LOCAL / NATIONAL OPERATIONS

PRODUCTS

OdinFre

ya

Loki

IntegrateCoordinateStrategize

DesignPromote

Personalise

AccelerateSupportSimplify

The Odin platform allows streamlining of your services with the minimum of fuss

The Freya platform allows you to personalise and promote your services

The Loki platform is a comprehensive suite of services providing an infrastructure toolkit to support start-ups

The Platform Building Blocks

Developed and Supplied by Control 2K

FITMAN EU Project

Project No: 604674

Project Full Name: Future Internet Technologies for

MANufacturing

Duration:24 months

Start date: April 1st 2013

Partnership: 29 partners, 9 countries

Strategic Objective: FP7-2012-ICT-FI FI.ICT-2011.1.8: Use Case scenarios and early

trials

Total Eligible Cost: 18.034.000 EURO

EC Contribution: 12.890.000 EURO

FITMAN Beneficiaries

SME Networks & Associated S/T (15)

Core Consortium (10)

Original Equipment Manufacturers (4)

Recent and Current EU Projects

TANet / Control 2K / Sematronix• Ebusiness (2004 – 2006)• STASIS (2006 – 2009)• CO-SPACES (2006 – 2009)• SYNERGY (2007 – 2011)• CADIC (2011 – 2013)• ADVENTURE (2011 – 2014)• FITMAN (2013 – 2015)• FLEXINET (2013 – 2016)

The Connected Business Community

HORIZON 2020Pierre Marro on behalf of

M. Concepcion Anton GarciaUnit E3- Net Innovation

DG CONNECTEuropean Commission

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The Connected Business Community

PRESENTATIONSGash Bhullar

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The Connected Business Community

SUMMARYGash Bhullar

14th November at Waterton Centre UK

Rate of Change in Large Organisations

Rate of Change of Technology

Rate of Change in Small Organisations

The Constantly Increasing Speed of Technological Change Last Century

Rate of Change in Large Organisations

Rate of Change of Technology

Rate of Change in Small Organisations

The Constantly Increasing Speed of Technological Change Now

Welsh Assembly Gov – SDWP Limited

Aerospace Forum

SME

Welsh AutoForum

SEMTA

SME SME SME SME SME SME

Larger BusinessOpportunities

GovernmentContracts

SMECLUSTER Facilitators / Products/ Collaboration / Services / Networking

Various Forum Members Crowd sourcing opportunities

New BusinessOpportunities

Electronics& SoftwareForum

SME SME

Various Sectors

UN

Under Negotiation

Navigating the Business Landscape

Benefits of Joining the Connected Business Community

• Potential economies of scale– Suppliers– Distribution networks– Labour/skills– Technology

• Members are encouraged to give preferred rates to fellow cluster members

• Ability to take on larger jobs/contracts working with other members (of course need to be aware of risks if contracts fail and should have a contingency plan priory to taking on contracts)

• Sharing of capacity/resources/ideas (it is understood by members that IPR should be protected when discussing ideas)

• Potential to have group discounts when bulk buying• Sharing of knowledge and promoting innovation through

sharing ideas• Promotes the development of new companies• Increased number of opportunities/new opportunities/ability

to exploit market opportunities• Attract supporting “supplier” businesses

Benefits of Joining the Connected Business Community

Typical Concerns

• Feel obliged to use other cluster members rather than most competitive/competent

• (Answer: Create positive culture / up to members to be competitive)

• Breakdown of relationship if use outside sources• (Answer: Create an ethical code / use internal mediation

team)• Competition with similar cluster members, risk of exclusivity

of ideas being compromised, copied or reproduced.• (Answer: Weigh up the risks as you would for any business

venture)

Summary – With and Without SMECluster

Without SMECluster• Normal Practice / Services• Search internet for

suppliers/partners• Limited capacity• Limited Resource

With SMECluster• Enhanced Services• Search cluster members for

suppliers/partners• Ability to share capacity• Extended Resources

Thank you…. Now Time for discussion!

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