On November 9th , Novius and KPN organized a Round Table on Chain Collaboration. KPN was hosting the event in their (cyber) Data Center in Almere, an impressive location that hosts the most powerful connectivity solutions, including data management and security. After a roundtour observing the impressive resilience strategies (2N+2 redundancy), Mr. Gerwin Zomer (TNO) was invited to inspire a group of 20 professional programme and portfolio managers on how chain collaboration is dealt with in a highly complex community environment such as CORE. The professionals represented organisations in telecommunication, airline, railway, banking, insurance, health and pharmacy industries.
Gerwin introduced the CORE Innovation Agenda and highlighted the roadmap and corresponding strategies how to accelerate the deployment of the CORE vision. We entered in a vivid discussion on bottlenecks and challenges in this process. Most of the challenges were quite generic and the programme managers recognised them in their own daily practices. Topics such as stakeholder strategies, winners-losers (turkey-christmas), urgency and ownership came along.