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IPC Senior Executive Forums on Digital Business 2011

SEF on Digital Business and the Consumer in 2020, November 2011

The Senior Executive Forum on 29 and 30 November brought together senior executives from IPC member posts in Europe, as well as Japan Post, with contributions from the MIT Center for Digital Business. Discussion themes included digital business platforms and postal developments in digital business in Europe, the United States and Japan. 

Professor Marshall Van Alstyne, The MIT Center for Digital Business addressing the IPC Senior Executive Forum on Digital Business and the Consumer in 2020, 28 November 2011.

• Executive summary   
• Contact list  
• Photographs from the Forum
• Feedback
• IPC presentations  : Jane Dyer, Director Markets & Communication, Angela Cox, Manager, Market Research, Mark Harrison, IPC Head of Markets
• Platform background  : Professor Geoffrey Parker, The MIT Center for Digital Business
• IPC platform recommendations   : Professor Marshall Van Alstyne Boston University & MIT, The MIT Center for Digital Business
• Digital strategy  : Delphine Desgurse, Head of Marketing Intelligence and  Strategic Planning – Innovation Department, Soraya de Montgolfier, Business Development / Innovation and Partnerships, Le Groupe La Poste 
• Next level of electronic communication : Robert Eder, Product manager, Austria Post
• Developments in digital business :Tommi Tikka, Director, Business Development, Itella
• PosteMailBox – state of the art : Vincent Santacroce, Research & Development, Chief Information Office, Poste Italiane
• Swiss Post / SwissSign update  : Adrian Humbel, CEO Swiss Sign, Swiss Post
• To be the best delivery and media company in the UK : Nick Pendleton, Group Director Corporate Strategy & Innovation, Royal Mail Group
• Our strategy for the E-Postbrief : Oliver Zeiler Member of the Mail Management Board, Product & Operations E-Postbrief, Deutsche Post DHL
• Update on Japan Post Service’s activity in digital business : Junichiro Fumizono, Senior Manager, e-Commerce Office, Japan Post Service
• Lessons learned so far  : Hennie Vermeij, Innovation Manager, PostNL 

SEF on Innovation for Postal Electronic Products, Brussels, March 2011

The IPC Board has endorsed the theme Digital Business: Opportunities to Create Value for the IPC Annual Conference in May 2011 in order to focus on collaborative initiatives in the digital arena in response to changing consumer behaviour and the need for diversification, as customers significantly reduce the use of hard copy communications. This subject focuses on three opportunities for collaboration: eCommerce, eBox, and Secure Identity Services. The Senior executive Forum held in March 2011 IPC has held on this topic and provided the opportunity for delegates to update each other on their successes, difficulties and learning.

• Executive summary   
• Contact list  
• E-Commerce development  : Mark Harrison, head of markets, IPC 
• E-Commerce a new positioning on the value chain  : Delphine Desgurse, head of strategic marketing and communication, Groupe La Poste
• E-ID Services collaborative developments  : Angela Cox, manager market research, IPC
• Digital business platforms and opportunities for postal collaboration  : Marshall Van Alstyne, research affiliate (MIT), associate professor (Boston University)
• Digiposte service    : Nayla Pinton, director business development, Groupe La Poste
• Norway Post’s new digital mailbox  : Thomas Mathisen, senior vice president for the business area digital, Norway Post
• eBOX system in Iceland  : Halldór Benjamin Hreinsson, head of e-business solutions, Iceland Post
• E-Postbrief – Creating a market for secure electronic communication in Germany : Peter Pittgens, senior vice president, Deutsche Post DHL
• eBox services collaborative developments  : Angela Cox, manager market research, IPC
• Opening Platforms - How, When and Why?  : Harvard Business School, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, Marshall Van Alstyne
• Platform Envelopment  : Thomas Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, Marshall Van Alstyne
• The Next Generation of Mail : Government options through technology-based channels, viewpoint paper, Anthony Joyce, HP