Slavko Vidović (Infodom Group): The Economy and Companies Cannot Be the Bearers of Digital Transformation Without Collaboration with the Environment

At the Lider conference on the 4th industrial revolution, held on Friday at the Westin Hotel in Zagreb, the CEO of Infodom Group Slavko Vidović mentioned a study on the potential for the development of smart industries in Croatia, which Infodom conducted with several Croatian faculties. The results of the study will be officially published next week, and Vidović revealed to Lider whether Croatia can truly carry the developmental concept of smart industries.

– We have traveled the whole world and know what has been publicly announced in the field of smart industries. We found three countries with excellent examples – Sweden, the Netherlands, and Singapore. We worked on mapping and assessing whether Croatia can really carry the developmental concept of smart industries – Vidović talks about the project in which the Innovation Center Nikola Tesla from FER, the Faculty of Organization and Informatics in Varaždin, the Faculty of Economics in Zagreb, the Robotics and Automation of Production Systems Institute from FSB, and the Center for Digital Transformation Research at the University of Dubrovnik participated.

– We have come to the realization that only the economy and the companies themselves in Croatia cannot be the bearers of digital transformation without the participation of the academic community, business associations (HGK, HUP, etc.), and the Government. Only through collaboration can individual companies facilitate and accelerate digital transformation. Without that, they are powerless – emphasizes Vidović.

– Besides mutual collaboration, the model of value creation that we have had so far within companies (inventions, robots, etc.) is not sufficient because a large amount of value is created through collaboration in the environment. The point is to work with future talents – future employees, customers, suppliers, managers – so that they create competition and increase excellence – adds Vidović, concluding that digital transformation must be viewed as a dynamic, not static model of change.

He thanked the faculties for their collaboration on a project that was not funded but arose from the goodwill of scientists and practitioners.

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