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Geo ICT technology incubation Luxury or Essential? Luxury or Essential? Dennis Devriendt Geospatial World Forum May 2014, Geneva 4C GRID www.4CGRID.com Content Who is 4CGRID What is incubation Who is it for Who is it for


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Geo ICT technology incubation Luxury or Essential?

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Luxury or Essential?

Dennis Devriendt Geospatial World Forum May 2014, Geneva

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  • Who is 4CGRID
  • What is incubation
  • Who is it for

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  • Who is it for
  • Examples
  • Conclusion

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4CGRID

  • Our mission
  • Geospatial incubation
  • Professionally tailored training and consultancy

E-learning, ILT, on-site

  • For customers, users, employees
  • Current activities
  • E-learning

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  • Proof-of-Concept projects
  • Expertise
  • Photogrammetry, RPAS, surveying, laser scanning, mapping, geodesy

Geo ICT technology incubation - Luxury or Essentials?

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What is incubation?

  • Definition:

‘The time between exposure to a pathogen and when symptoms become first apparent’

incubation incubation

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  • Pathogen = change
  • Always comes at a price
  • Slow acceptance of innovation
  • Inevitable & unpredictable
  • Every answered question creates more questions

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What is incubation?

  • Definition:

‘Keeping something in favorable conditions for growth and development’

incubation incubation

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  • 1. Confronted with change or innovation (internal or external)
  • 2. Incubation
  • Separate entity inside or outside
  • Grow the activity: learning, business plan
  • Optimal circumstances for outside the box thinking
  • 3. Implement in the organisation
  • Indicators: turnover, critical mass, FTE, unexpected synergy

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Who is incubation for?

  • Incubation can be applied to
  • SME
  • Government agencies
  • MNC
  • Characteristics
  • Not necessarily limited to core Geo-aspects
  • Learning & Training

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  • Scalable

Two requirements

  • Be confronted with change
  • Be prepared to deal with it

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Incubation example 1

  • Company (+ 20 FTE):

Hardware and software solution provider for surveyors

  • Innovation:

RPAS for aerial photography (‘drones’)

  • Risk
  • New product – new customers
  • No RPAS legislation

No experience in aviation

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  • No experience in aviation
  • Incubation
  • Market analysis
  • Pre sales activities
  • Demo
  • Prospecting
  • Establishing and proving core competences on the market
  • Representation in the national RPAS association to support legal framework
  • Training
  • Customer support

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Incubation example 2

  • Government agency
  • Providing geo-related services to citizens, public servants and institutions
  • Change
  • Temporarily available service for land preemption procedures
  • Key aspects
  • Service available for only two months
  • High workload at the helpdesk

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=> training is required

  • Traditional classroom training was not suitable
  • Remote employees and users
  • Short training
  • Incubation: interactive e-learning modules
  • Developed on beta-versions of the service
  • The product managers keep focus on their product
  • 80% of target audience was reached (45% with CT)

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Conclusion

  • Incubation is a viable way to implement change in an organisation
  • Willingness to deal with change is critical
  • Learning aspect is a significant part of incubation
  • Luxury or Essential?

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  • Neither
  • Incubation is a way YOU CHOOSE to deal with a change …

… you are confronted with (essential) … or you want to implement (luxury)

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