Collaboration is not the objective; it is the means to achieve it. We attended the AMEC 2023 Forum.
On July 6th, Mercè Girbau, President of INDPULS, and Mireia Mir, Director of INDPULS, attended the AMEC 2023 Forum at IESE. The forum is an annual meeting organized by the Association of Internationalized Industrial Companies where knowledge, skills, and resources come together to spark new ideas and opportunities for meaningful industrial collaborations.
Anticipation, Adaptability, Collaboration, Geolocation, and Sustainability: the 5 new factors of competitiveness.
The AMEC team identified the 5 new factors of competitiveness: Anticipation, Adaptability, Collaboration, Glocalization, and Sustainability. This year’s forum focused on promoting industrial collaboration to achieve better results.
Alejandro Gallego, the Director of Expansion at AMEC, interviewed PhD. Heidi K. Gardner, a distinguished member of Harvard, the author of numerous books, case studies, and articles, and considered a business guru. Gardner spoke about intelligent collaboration.
In a complex and challenging environment like the current one, it is essential to have external collaborators and resort to innovative and more effective collaboration methods with a multiplier effect that enables achieving much better results. For more information about her theories, we recommend reading her book “Smarter Collaboration.”
Mireia Mir explains that throughout the day, they had the opportunity to learn about numerous success stories of strategic collaboration between industrial companies and individuals to reach new international markets, open new lines of business, attract talent, and innovate. “We saw what their main challenges were and how they managed (or not) to overcome them. Values such as trust, honesty, generosity, and patience emerged recurrently,” Mireia emphasizes.
Josep Lluis Bescós, Vice President and CEO of AKO, a company associated with INDPULS, participated in a roundtable discussion about collaboration as a response to the industrial challenge of attracting and retaining talent.
Bescós emphasized that “it is necessary to tap into the local talent, promote the attractiveness of the company, offer suitable professional training, and foster public-private collaboration with municipalities, universities, and technological centers, among others.”
Driving Industrial Innovation through Collaboration
One of the highlights of the day was the co-creation dynamic, where participants expressed the most important areas of collaboration, the challenges they face, and effective solutions to foster a collaborative culture. The conclusions drawn were that industrial collaboration is a powerful tool to drive innovation, growth, and competitiveness in an increasingly complex business world. Despite the challenges that arise along the way, adopting solutions based on humility, trust, sincerity, and generosity, as well as having the support of organizations like AMEC or INDPULS in the field of innovation, will enable overcoming difficulties and promoting an effective collaborative culture. Only through industrial collaboration can we achieve exceptional results and successfully tackle the challenges of the future.
