Innovation and scenarios for the future high on the strategic agenda
The world is changing faster than ever. Technological innovations are accelerating the digital transformation, the implementation of sustainable solutions and new ways of working together. Innovation and understanding the scenarios of the future are therefore high on the strategic agenda of many companies.
The Ghent Startup We Connect Data offers with DataScouts a self service Market & Competitive Intelligence platform. DataScouts makes it possible for companies to quickly and efficiently get a complete picture of relevant players, relationships and market trends within a business ecosystem. Accurate data and insights are crucial to develop strategic agility and build plausible scenarios of the future.
Colruyt Group has been using DataScouts for some time now. Even more: given the strategic importance of reliable data for good decision-making, Colruyt Group has decided to invest in the further growth of We Connect Data and the DataScouts Market & Competitive Intelligence platform.
Reliable insights contribute to good decision making
Data-driven market research and business analysis has increased in importance in recent years. Since the needs of the customer, and the world in general, are evolving faster and faster, it is important that a company is able to respond to these evolutions more quickly. Reliable data and insights contribute to good decision making and ensure that a company invests in the right things, for instance automating business processes, making your value chain more sustainable or engage in strategic collaborations with complementary partners.
At We Connect Data we want to know the full picture, understand how a market evolves and how a company can take benefit of the dynamics of the market to claim a unique position. We developed DataScouts to help companies increase their strategic agility. DataScouts takes a digital snapshot of all players and trends in a particular market. It allows to analyse relationships, clusters and trends and discover new business opportunities.
Strategic Partnership
Colruyt Group and DataScouts have found each other as partners in the domain of market watch and ecosystem intelligence. Colruyt Group has been using DataScouts for some time now to systematically map and monitor the business ecosystem around the blue economy in order to identify relevant partnerships and business opportunities. Accurate data and insights, gathered among other through DataScouts, help Colruyt Group to further develop the Belgian aquaculture ecosystem and, together with partners, take an active role in the field of research and innovation.
Our participation in We Connect Data fits with our ambition to become even stronger in the analysis, interpretation and application of data and our capability to make even more conscious decisions as a retailer. We had good experiences through previous collaborations with We Connect Data and are happy to help them grow and to support the further development of the DataScouts Market & Competitive Intelligence platform.
Jo Willemyns, Marketing Director Colruyt Group
We believe that ecosystems and digital platforms feed new business models and enable organisations large and small to collaborate and generate value in new ways. We are therefore very pleased with Colruyt Group’s decision to strengthen our collaboration with a participation in We Connect Data
Ingrid Willems, CEO We Connect Data
For more information or press questions about We Connect Data / DataScouts, please contact Ingrid Willems (ingrid@weconnectdata.com – +32 471 95 00 80)
For press questions about/for Colruyt / Colruyt Group, please contact our press office (press@colruytgroup.com – +32 473 92 45 10 (NL))