Our members determine the themes on which we act. We work on the continuous digitization of our organizations. The digital strategy - as part of the overall strategy – and its implementation within the organization are central to this theme.
Distinctive for the digital revolution in which we find ourselves, are the rapid developments. There is hardly time to notice, evaluate, implement and control a new technology, or the next alternatives are already presenting themselves. It takes a lot of time and budget to stay informed, possibly adjust the business strategy, make the right technology choices, successfully complete the implementation, have employees work with it successfully and avoid setbacks. Learning from the experiences of other users can help to prevent such costly mistakes.
That is why we are committed to:
Sharing knowledge and insights about the application of new technologies in practice. For instance, creating value with data, AI and alike. These knowledge and inspiration sessions are accessible for experts, CxOs, and board members of our members.
Sharing knowledge on how to bring non-IT employees of the organization up to speed on working with digital technology, and adapting processes.
Expand the use of available expertise and experience, by organising more frequent peer-reviews aimed at improving digital projects of colleagues who are also member of the CIO Platform Nederland.
Making, if required, experts from our community available for providing feedback on policy initiatives of the government, and by providing expertise for technical briefings and parliamentary enquiries, and other initiatives on the national level that our members consider to be of societal interest.
We are living in a period in which the application of IT and data is experiencing an enormous acceleration. How to apply these in a good and structured way - in these hectic times -, what choices to make and which preconditions to set and how to actually create value, is a major challenge for the leaders of all organizations. It helps enormously if we can exchange experiences about this and learn from each other!
On Thursday the 6th of April we were a guest at Wehkamp in Zwolle. Kees Jans showed us everything there is to know about Wehkamp. We visited the brand new Logistic Service Center and CEO Piet Coelewij and Kees told us all about the transition to a digital company. During the lovely dinner with multiple courses we had a Members meeting, in which Mirjam Verhoeven (CIO de Volksbank) was chosen as a new member of our board.
Minister Kamp of Economic Affairs has received the Agenda for action from the National Blockchain Coalition today. The agenda is a jointly initiative of more than twenty organizations from logistics, energy and finance, as of knowledge parties and governments. With this agenda, the Netherlands will be a frontrunner internationally in the application of blockchain technology.
As the association of the demand side of IT, we applaud the statements of Secretary General Maarten Camps (Ministry of Economic Affairs) of last Monday. Together we can make the difference.
In the context of the next elections entrepreneurs are debating on four themes. Teun van der Vorm (CIO ANWB) took part in the debate about the theme ‘digitalization’.
Through the online lunch sessions for and by CIOs, we discuss important issues initiated by our members The sessions will consist of an introduction by one of the members and space for questions/discussion.
The networking dinners are exclusively accessible to CIO’s/CDO’s of member organizations. The program is compiled by the CIO/CDO where we are a guest and gives a glimpse into its IT organization, discussion tables and association topics are also part of the program. This program always ends with informal dinner. We are guests of Arcadis.
Professionals attend meetings of Knowledge group (CEG). The CEG Innovation & IT shares knowledge and experiences on topics like: how to establish innovations? Who is in the lead? Who is responsible? How to organize the execution? Participants are CIOs, Architects (enterprise, lead, domain), Innovation managers and Information managers. This time we will visit the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee (KMar), at its own innovation lab, Deep Vision.
