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Navigating the new industrial landscape

A strategic playbook for CxOs and CIOs

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As we continue to explore the convergence of physical and digital worlds, we are excited to present our latest playbook, “Navigating the new industrial landscape”.

This comprehensive guide offers valuable insights into the evolution and benefits of the industrial metaverse, designed specifically for CxOs and CIOs.

About the playbook

In today’s rapidly changing industrial landscape, companies face immense pressure from external economic and geopolitical stresses, as well as significant internal financial and operational challenges. To navigate these complexities, businesses must improve operational efficiency, accelerate innovation, and enhance supply chain resilience. The industrial metaverse offers a transformative path forward, enabling organisations to optimise resources, reduce costs, and achieve sustainable transformation.

The playbook provides a pragmatic perspective for digital transformation practitioners across industries. It explores the technological convergence of the physical and digital at scale, offering a detailed roadmap for implementing the industrial metaverse. The playbook covers key transformation streams such as data and AI-driven strategy, digital continuity, IIoT, and software centricity, while leveraging cutting-edge technologies to achieve seamless integration and accuracy.

Benefits of an industrial metaverse strategy: key takeaways

  1. Greater operational efficiencies: The industrial metaverse enables companies to improve collaboration, design, simulation, operations, optimisation, and automation of industrial processes. This results in quantifiable cost savings, boosted automation, reduced time to market, and improved quality.
  2. Improved employee experience: Through role and process redesign, reduced job risk, enhanced on-site safety, improved training and learning industrial roles become more attractive to increasingly scarce talent.
  3. Positive impact on sustainability: By combining the best of physical and digital worlds, the industrial metaverse decreases the need for physical assets, minimises waste, optimises energy and resources, and supports substantial reductions in CO2 emissions.
  4. Technical convergence: It is built on the convergence of legacy tech and emerging game-changing technologies, including digital twins, AI-driven interfaces, edge-AI, smart advisors, and agentic systems.

This playbook is specifically written for CxOs and leaders in R&D, data, engineering, and innovation across various industrial sectors, including Automotive, Aerospace and Defence, Pharmaceuticals and Manufacturing. It provides valuable insights for digital transformation leaders, helping them understand the benefits of the new industrial landscape and how to implement it effectively.

Conclusion

The industrial metaverse is not a distant vision; it is a practical, scalable approach to reimagining how industries operate. By embracing this transformative path, organisations can unlock new levels of efficiency, strengthen supply chains, create tailored customer experiences, and drive measurable cost savings and productivity gains. We invite you to explore the “Navigating the new industrial landscape playbook” and discover how it can benefit your organisation.

Are you curious to see what opportunities the new industrial landscape provides for your organisation? Contact us to start your journey into the industrial metaverse.

Meet our experts

Alexandre Embry

Alexandre Embry

CTIO, Head of AI Robotics and Experiences Lab
Alexandre Embry is CTIO, member of the Capgemini Technology, Innovation and Ventures Council. He is leading the Immersive Technologies domain, looking at trends analysis and developing the deployment strategy at Group level. He specializes in exploring and advising organizations on emerging tech trends and their transformative powers. He is passionate about enhancing the user experience and he is identifying how Metaverse, Web3, NFT and Blockchain technologies, AR/VR/MR can advance brands and companies with enhanced customer or employee experiences. He is the founder and head of the Capgemini’s Metaverse-Lab, and of the Capgemini Andy3D immersive remote collaboration solution.

Pierre Bagnon

Head of Smart Plant | Intelligent & Sustainable Operations, Capgemini Invent
Pierre started a new position as Vice President, Global Head of Intelligent Industry Accelerator at Capgemini Invent.

Kary Bheemaiah

Chief Technology and Innovation Office (CTIO), Capgemini Invent, and Co-Lead of the Metaverse-Lab
My global role at Capgemini Invent is to define and connect the world of emerging technologies, outline business and sector implications, inform go-to-market plans, and help create new client-specific solutions. I am also co-lead of the Capgemini Group’s recently launched Metaverse-Lab, helping clients shape and execute their metaverse strategies,. I am also a member of the Group’s Technology, Innovation & Ventures Council and co-host of Capgemini Invent’s Future Sight podcast on Emerging Technologies. Current areas of focus are : Blockchain and Web3, Quantum Technologies, Synthetic Biology, Human-Machine Understanding

Olivier Saignes

Group Intelligent Industry Accelerator- Microsoft Intelligent Industry Partnership
For over 30 years, I have devoted my professional life to Digital Transformation, with a strong conviction: new technologies, software, Data, AI & GenAI, Digital Twins or Metaverse, are all enablers to build the future of industrial companies, improving efficiency, excellence and sustainability. Particularly attracted to the field of manufacturing, my role is to orchestrate the best of the Capgemini Group’s expertise, by forging the relevant industrial partnerships, all to best accompany the transformation of our industrial clients.