Shell CTO Yuri Sebregts responses to interview questions of Götz Wehberg, founder of the DSI. Yuri and Götz are discussing the benefit of transparency new technology offers as well as digital operations and new business model at Shell. As CTO Yuri leads the technology organization of the Shell Group. This is an organization of 3,800 people based in the Shell technology and digital hubs in Houston, Amsterdam, London and Bangalore and in satellite offices in Rio, Boston, Hamburg and Shanghai. Thanks much to Yuri for sharing his experience and providing signature examples of Shell.

Yuri Sebregts, CTO Shell

Interview with Shell CTO Interview Yuri Sebregts.pdf (137.54KB)

Interview with Shell CTO

Interview Yuri Sebregts.pdf (137.54KB)

Please see the latest edition of "Digital Supply Chains - Key to Industry 4.0 and digital business models, leveraging on S4HANA and beyond", published by Routledge: 

This DSI publication provides a practical guide to digital supply chain modelling, demonstrating an agile approach to how such models can be applied to any manufacturing company to build competitive advantage, facilitate new business models and drive towards Industry 4.0. The agile approach of the book provides an attractive alternative to the conventional country-by-country deployment of S/4 HANA and other relevant technologies.

According to our current DSI study, almost every second company is struggling with finding back to a normal. COVID-19 has caused significant revenue losses, orders have been cancelled, margins  and cash are shrinking and cost not been adjusted to the new under-scale yet. Therefore, resilience of supply chains will be key to success in the future. Our Our latest DSI survey analyses how companies handle this new requirement in order to be prepared for future  disruptions such as pandemics, terror attacks, infrastructure break downs, traffic jams amongst others. Please feel free to participate and gain insights for your resilient supply chain: 15 questions in 10 minutes. 

DSI members can perform a comprehensive stock taking of their digitalization efforts. The scope of the DSI Maturity Assessment covers all relevant areas of the supply chain operating model such as governance, services, sourcing and technology. The DSI Maturity Assessments refers to a number of proven success factors as well as key facilitators when it comes to digitalization of supply chains. Comparisons with peers are possible. To get started you can perform your individual assessment based on 55 online questions, which takes you about 45 minutes to complete. Based on your individual assessment, the DSI is happy to share results and discuss with you next steps. Please feel free to participate now.

DSI digital maturity framework:

Digitalization is on everybody’s lips. And there are only few things that work without IT. But that does not mean, that just by using latest technology you succeed. Our current DSI study shows that many IT programs suffer from happy engineering and lack business focus. So, how about your S4HANA program? What lessons learned should you consider, what kind of success factors are key, which pitfalls to avoid? DSI shares expertise from reviewing S4HANA programs in order to prevent you from sunk investments and facilitate your company to get the most value out of S4HANA.