The lighthouse for experimentation and networking in the context of data-based value creation
When it comes to the many benefits of data-based value creation, decision-makers at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) want simple and transparent processes to harness the existing data pool — and to do so as pragmatically as possible. Today, a lack of goals and the presumption of a high time investment still prevent many companies from analyzing their data and adapting processes.
In view of this hurdle, we see ourselves as transfer experts for data-based value creation. We are convinced that experimentation creates concrete benefits, makes one’s own scope of action visible and moves the company forward.
That is why we advise SMEs to “EXPLORE YOUR DATA!”. Our DataLab WestSax offers you the necessary space to try things out and provides you with experts and tools. You can benefit from our many years of research and development experience and conduct your own real-life experiments together with us, which will reveal your potential in the area of data-based value creation.
Data.Knowledge(s)Value.
Project teaser DataLab Westsax
DATALAB WESTSAX sees itself as a mobile, hybrid real laboratory for digital transformation. During the project period, medium-sized companies in the region of West Saxony will have the opportunity to develop knowledge on data-based value creation and to benefit from the many years of research and development experience of the two project partners (Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy (IMW) and West Saxony University of Applied Sciences Zwickau). This film was presented for the first time on 01.09.2022 at the simul+ Future Forum in Radebeul.
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Our research partners
Fraunhofer IMW (Leipzig)
The Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy (IMW) is an established research institute for applied, socio-economic research at the Leipzig location with an external site in Halle/Saale. The scientists at the Fraunhofer IMW research and develop strategies, structures, processes and instruments:
- for the transfer of knowledge and technologies between organizations,
- the transformation of knowledge into innovation and
- understanding and shaping the associated framework conditions.
Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau
The “Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau” is one of the strongest research universities for applied science and is very networked in the region with its numerous partnerships. Our goals are excellent and interdisciplinary research in the areas of:
- linking people and technology
- scientifically based solution of practical problems
- targeted dissemination of research results for knowledge and technology transfer.
Our motivation
Value creation increasingly based on logic of data use and networking
Companies, especially SMEs, often lack concrete data use and implementation ideas
Other barriers include a lack of resources and a lack of trust in digital solutions
Unused value creation potential despite already existing or accumulating data
Our services
Simul+- real experiments
Digital laboratory
Workshops
Our partners
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For medium-sized production companies in particular, we are working on methods and tools with which the data already available today can be organized, linked and analyzed in such a way that employees can make increasingly better decisions.