The Industrial Metaverse has really “announced” itself this year. For me, it accelerated in my attention once Siemens and Nvidia announced their partnership to explore the Industrial Metaverse in early July.
The announcement came at the launch of Siemens Xcelerator, a digital platform and having both announcements made at the same event had a more extensive “bang” with the more attention-grabbing one, announcing the Industrial Metaverse partnership, in my view, overshadowed the other, the Siemens Xcelerator, which forms the Siemens building block towards this industrial future and the essentials required of a digital platform to accelerate any businesses digital transformation.
“Siemens Xcelerator is an open digital business platform that will accelerate digital transformation. Now companies of all sizes can access the digital technologies to transform how they compete, collaborate and connect“- Siemens website.
Through this open digital business platform, Siemens Xcelerator is featuring and building a curated portfolio of IoT-enabled hardware and software, a powerful ecosystem of partners, and a marketplace.
The journey is moving towards the Industrial Metaverse and I see it evolving in this way
Absorbing changes like these take time, and understanding
I stepped back in the past months to absorb how digital platforms today are being adopted and how the Industrial Metaverse is becoming the established pathway to achieving a fully digital transformation.
I see this as a journey; the best way I can convey this is through my visual of the different parts of a learning journey.
I will not go into the visual so much in explaining here. Still, I see stages of this virtual journey towards achieving an Industrial Metaverse. I have provided some opening (and simple) rules of the road and principles of approach and the need to explore and exploit a whole range of emerging technology.
I see the journey in a three-horizon view.
This is a journey of many years, but it has many building blocks in place or clarified enough to embark on this transformation.
Understanding this journey further, let me know as I can help support, encourage and advise, even building the supporting narratives and business cases within your specific space and market positioning.
Does this journey suggestion make sense?