A great example of how #platforms can support #circulareconomy : Organix by Suez is a #marketplace which connects producers of organic waste (farmers, food industry manufacturers, ports, municipalities…) with biogas plants, which transform them into energy.
They combine two challenges: #wastemanagement and the production of local and #renewableenergy, with a huge market opportunity as almost 4 million tons of food industry biowaste is produced each year in France.

In this episode, we interviewed Leo Michellier, Digital Product Owner and Paul Beguerie, Project Manager. They will tell you more about what Organix does, how they went against the cliché of being all digital by adding a human layer to improve the customer journey and why they are unique.

The complete episode can be listened on your favorite podcast provider. #platforms4future

Pexcite is a future-oriented ecosystem for intertwined software solutions alongside the entire value chain of pharmaceutical products – from raw material to the end customer. Our guest Kathrin Günther, the Vice President of Business Unit Digital Solutions in Uhlmann Pac-Systeme, has revealed a great history about how machine building companies have joined their forces to create a software solution.

The most challenging part of Pexcite journey was to build up an awareness and sense that the world is changing also for a machine building companies, as Uhlmann Pac-Systeme. Despite “a luxury situation to start” there is still a long way to go and compete with a price pressure, other companies and to bring in a new understanding and mindset of digital business.
Tune in to hear this amazing story and learn how to approach management to enter the new era of digitalisation.

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Fashion Cloud is a B2B platform, helping fashion brands and retail stores to work together through data sharing. In this episode, you will learn about:

How they pivoted from a B2C application project into a B2B platforms used by the biggest German brands, How they manage to scale based on trust and company culture,
The crazyness of their recruitment process.

The complete episode can be listened on your favorite podcast provider. #platforms4future

Scaling corporate start-up? Where to begin? Frank Mattes, experienced expert in corporate business building brought the major input to this topic in 2018 together with other 20 clients. The first book was called “Scaling Up Corporate Startups”, it focuses on one question: How can large companies generate business impact from non-incremental innovation?

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Do your stakeholders think that your business is legitimate?

We often ask ourselves whether we are legitimate enough but we barely ask the same question at the company level. Eldorado, a french platform facilitating the connection between entrepreneurs and investors, managed to raise faster than other similar platforms by using growth hacking and legitimization methods. In just three years, they built a brand to look like a 10 years old expertise brand.

In this episode, we give you a few tips from their secret sauce.

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The latest emerging trends in the market of platforms is a creation of a platform by multiple companies together and data platforms, therefore for today's conversation we have invited two researchers: Katharina Hölzle a professor for Technology Management and Human Factors at the University of Stuttgart, leading the institute for human factors and technology management (IAT) as well as the Fraunhofer IAO and Marc Brechtel - Project Manager for Advanced Product Development in Freudenberg Filtration Technologies.

To conclude, there is a huge potential in collaborative platform building, as well as downside and in order to achieve and be ready for the future changes, there are still many uncertainties that we need to centralize.

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Denis Tishler, Chief Marketing Officer at wind-turbine, unveils how the company went from a usual marketplace with no industry expertise, to being leaders of a niche ecosystem.

When they started in 2012 in Germany, wind-turbine.com was pretty much as any usual online marketplace, helping sellers and buyers of second hand wind turbines to get in touch.
Today they are the world's leading B2B platform in the wind industry, with 25K users a month in over 200 countries.

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Kicking of our series 2 of the “Platforms 4 Future” podcast with a chemical industry powerhouse and dinosaur - BASF. It’s the world leading chemical company with about 110.000 employees worldwide, 10% of them within R&D department spending 2 billion on innovation each year. More importantly, almost everything on our lives is based on chemicals so you can image the impact of such a company has on our lives and our planet. There is no better place to drive sustainability with a massive impact. But even for such a big giant, tackling sustainability is a too big task and you need to align even more players to create change.

Together with Alessandro Pistillo, Head of Digital Strategic Projects, we explore how such a traditional company can use it’s footprint in the market to lay the foundation for a more sustainable collaboration among all the players in the ecosystem.

Alessandro started it’s career 20 years ago and went through different jobs within BASF, which gave him a lot of insights into all facets of the value chain and chemical industry. In the last two years he is part of the Corporate Strategy Department driving digital innovation projects.

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In our current podcast episode, we look at an aspect that doesn't come up so often in our conversations: the closing of a B2B platform. For this, we caught up with Henrik Hahn from Evonik Industries.

Henrik is Chief Digital Officer of the Evonik Group and CEO of Evonik Digital. In his role, he initiated the development of a marketplace in 2017 - an absolute novelty in the very traditional chemical industry. 3 years later, however, the platform is already history.

Why Evonik abandoned the idea, what hurdles Henrik had to deal with, and what he nevertheless learned from this journey into the startup world - that's what he talks about rather frankly with Natalie and Matthias.

In our latest Episode we were very pleased to welcome Thilo Kassen, Executive Manager of PRISMA Capacity, the leading gas capacity platform in Europe. Together with Thilo we discussed the interesting shareholder model behind the company and how sustainability and climate change affect the future gas market in the long run.

PRISMA Capacity is acting as the leading gas capacity trading platform in Europe. Within their marketplace they offer the possibility to easily auction transmission gas capacity at primary and secondary market level. Founded in 2005, PRISMA is currently connecting 45 infrastructure operators and over 600 shipper companies all over Europe. Although the number of players on the platform sounds quite small, PRISMA manages about 70% of the European gas market which is highly fragmented.

What makes PRISMA so special is the shareholder model they operate. Founded and owned by many energy companies around Europe, this cross-country collaboration model of PRISMA could act as a role model for other industries and european wide platforms initiatives

We are very pleased to discuss together with Thilo Kassen, Executive Manager of PRISMA Capacity, about the background of the company's foundation and the shareholder management that goes along with its business model.

Henrik is Chief Digital Officer of the Evonik Group and CEO of Evonik Digital. In his role, he initiated the development of a marketplace in 2017 - an absolute novelty in the very traditional chemical industry. 3 years later, however, the platform is already history.

Why Evonik abandoned the idea, what hurdles Henrik had to deal with, and what he nevertheless learned from this journey into the startup world - that's what he talks about rather frankly with Natalie and Matthias.