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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 organizations to optimize 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, optimization, 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, minimizes waste, optimizes 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 Defense, 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, organizations 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 organization.

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

Meet our experts

Alexandre Embry

Vice President, Head of the Capgemini AI Robotics and Experiences Lab
Alexandre leads a global team of experts who explore emerging tech trends and devise at-scale solutioning across various horizons, sectors and geographies, with a focus on asset creation, IP, patents and go-to market strategies. Alexandre specializes in exploring and advising C-suite executives and their organizations on the transformative impact of emerging digital tech trends. He is passionate about improving the operational efficiency of organizations across all industries, as well as enhancing the customer and employee digital experience. He focuses on how the most advanced technologies, such as embodied AI, physical AI, AI robotics, polyfunctional robots & humanoids, digital twin, real time 3D, spatial computing, XR, IoT can drive business value, empower people, and contribute to sustainability by increasing autonomy and enhancing human-machine interaction.

Pierre Bagnon

EVP, Global Head of Intelligent Industry Accelerator
Pierre is Executive Vice President at Capgemini, heading Intelligent Industry for the group. He focuses on digital and sustainable transformation, entailing intelligent operations, intelligent product and services and digital continuity, with a particular focus in the Manufacturing and Automotive sectors. With more than 10 years of experience in advanced manufacturing, Pierre is a global subject matter expert for Smart factory and Industrial ramp-up.

Kary Bheemaiah

Vice President | Chief Technology & Innovation Officer (CTIO) – Capgemini Invent
Kary Bheemaiah is VP & CTIO at Capgemini Invent, where he leads emerging tech strategy across Edge AI, robotics, and quantum. He is also an Executive Fellow at the World Economic Forum, guiding work on tech convergence. A former AI startup lead and EU researcher, he’s a TEDx speaker, author, and contributor to MIT Tech Review, WIRED, and HBR.

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.