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If product-oriented companies focus on how digital solutions can be integrated into the existing portfolio, a familiar and constant field will become more dynamic. In the context of digitization, companies must look for the “sweet spot” between the possibilities of new digital technologies and the needs of their customers. Against this background, the Data Mining and Value Creation project team has initiated a focus group on “Selling Digital Solutions”. 

This year's Spring Servitization Conference with the motto “Advanced Services for Sustainability and Growth” was postponed from May to September due to the Covid 19 pandemic and was held exclusively in digital format from September 14 to 16, 2020. 

In October of 2019, Prof. Dr. Heiko Gebauer, Project Manager Data Mining and Value Creation, and Theresa Wenzel, responsible for project communication, had the opportunity to give a lecture on the future of value creation in Saxony as a part of the studium universale at the University of Leipzig. 

On November 12 and 13, 2019, the Fraport Forum at Frankfurt Airport and the House of Logistics and Mobility (HOLM) held the 18th INNOVATION Forum of the Platform for Innovation in Germany (PFI-D). Over two days, around 300 cross-industry specialists and managers from business and science discussed future topics such as digitization, collaboration and cross-innovation.

At the beginning of October, scientists from the Fraunhofer IMW discussed Saxony's economic situation and the corresponding role of digitisation with representatives of the State Ministries for Economic Affairs, Labour and Transport (SMWA) and for Science and the Arts (SMWK) in Dresden. The symposium “Digital Transformation and Innovation” at the SMWA gave rise to this debate.

Blockchain is a polarizing topic. While the technology is often associated with the development of the Internet of Value, so many doubts and myths surround Blockchain. The idea behind our workshop was to clarify what Blockchain actually is and what concrete application possibilities exist in companies

The article "Driving Process Innovation with IoT Field Data" in the MIS Quarterly Executive is dedicated to the potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) for production companies.

At this year's NET19, the industry meeting place for digitization topics by seecon engineers, the employees of the research project Data Mining and Value Creation will have their own lecture block.

In the Data Mining and Value Creation project, four master theses are currently being written dealing with the influence of digitization on industry.

Alexander Arzt, research fellow in the Data Mining and Value Creation project, reports on the Spring Servitization Conference 2019 and explains the poster he presented at the conference.

Alexander Arzt, research fellow in the Data Mining and Value Creation project, will participate in the Spring Servitization Conference in Linköping, Sweden, from 13 to 15 May 2019. The theme of the conference is “Delivering Services Growth in the Digital Era”. 

In the Data Mining and Value Creation project, we are working with the City of Leipzig to further develop its approach to Open Data. Since it is often unclear what can be done with data at all, a workshop was held with the city's employees on March 14, 2019 at the Fraunhofer IMW premises. Sonja Ries, research fellow in the Data Mining and Value Creation project, answers some questions about the workshop.

In our Data Mining and Value Creation project, we are now discussing future scenarios. Our colleagues from the group Professionalizing Knowledge Transfer Processes at Fraunhofer IMW, Inga Döbel and Annamaria Riemer, have invited us to a workshop on this topic.

For the renowned trade magazine Industrial Marketing Management, a call for papers for the special issue on "Digital servitization: crossing the perspectives of digitization and service transformation" will run until December 21, 2018. Prof. Dr. Heiko Gebauer, Project Manager Data Mining and Value Creation, is the guest editor of this issue.