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DARE TO CHALLENGE THE STATUS QUO ICT Group is operating in fast changing markets and with fast changing technology. That acceleration will increase even more during the coming years. Companies that are unable to reinvent themselves regularly will lose their relevance sooner or later. This is why the Board has appointed a Technology Council that continuously challenges them. “Not only do you have to know what concerns your clients have today and in the next twelve months, but you also have to have a clear idea of what the market will look like in three to five years from now.” A conversation with Linus Wiebe, chairman of ICT Technology Advisory Council (TAC).
Photography: Kennet Ruona.
In his daily life Wiebe is Director of Innovation at Lund University in Sweden. “Our Innovation Centre supports students and professors by commercialising technology. Universities conduct a tremendous amount
of research, but traditionally there has been an introverted attitude which has stopped them from analysing which companies would be interested in that technology. Although naturally this technology is aimed at
