2. Cisco and IMD created a
joint initiative:
The Global Center for Digital
Business Transformation
“DBT Center”
#DigitalTransformation
3. Why did Cisco team up with IMD?
• Elite business school with flexible approach to real-
world executive education and applied research
• #1 in executive education open programs (Financial
Times); #1 in international 1-year MBA programs
(Forbes)
• A fully accredited university, 100% focused on
business management
• DBT Center located on Lausanne campus—the heart
of Europe’s innovation region
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4. Innovation and learning come together to
create disruptive business models
for the digital age
Advantages of the DBT
#DigitalTransformation
6. A global ecosystem of researchers and
academic experts contribute ideas
Advantages of the DBT
#DigitalTransformation
7. Outcomes will be prescriptive, actionable
answers that solve “real-world” problems
Why should you care?
#DigitalTransformation
8. The networked connection of people,
process, data, and things - is disrupting
old business practices, and
enabling new ones
Why should you care?
#DigitalTransformation
9. Because firms need to transform their
business models – the “people and
process” elements – in order to survive
Why should you care?
#DigitalTransformation
10. Highly differentiated and actionable
perspectives on digital business
transformation will be created
What it means for the Internet of Everything
#DigitalTransformation
11. Executives will engage to solve real-world
challenges created by massive market
transitions
What it means for the Internet of Everything
#DigitalTransformation
12. These new disruptive business models will
drive how IoE is adopted in private
and public sector organizations
around the world
What it means for the Internet of Everything
#DigitalTransformation
13. Learn more about the
Global Center for Digital
Business Transformation
#DigitalTransformation