As Research Vice President, Future of Industry Ecosystems, Innovation Strategies, & Energy Insights at IDC, Jeff Hojlo leads one of IDC’s Future Enterprise practices at IDC – the Future of Industry Ecosystems. This practice focuses on three areas that help create and optimize trusted industry ecosystems and next generation value chains in discrete and process manufacturing, construction, healthcare, retail, and other industries: shared data & insight, shared applications, and shared operations & expertise. Mr. Hojlo manages a group focused on the research and analysis of the design, simulation, innovation, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) market, including emerging strategies across discrete and process manufacturing industry such as product innovation platforms and the closed loop digital thread of product design, development, digital manufacturing, supply chain, and SLM.  He also manages IDC’s North American Energy Insights group, with a focus on key topics such as energy transition & sustainability, distributed energy resource management, and digital transformation in the Oil & Gas and Utilities industries.

After starting his career in the CPG industry, Mr. Hojlo has worked for the past 28 years in the IT industry at start-ups and established global companies. For the past 20 years, he has focused on the design, innovation, and PLM market, watching the market evolve from workgroup-centric to ecosystem-directed innovation and collaboration. Most recently, he was global industry product marketing lead at Siemens for multiple industries including food & beverage, consumer products, retail, industrial machinery, and heavy equipment, and prior to that, a Research Analyst at AMR Research (acquired by Gartner) where he focused on research and analysis of innovation and ecosystems across industry including automotive, consumer goods, machinery, retail, and high tech.

Mr. Hojlo regularly contributes to the IDC blog (https://blogs.idc.com/) and posts on social media (@jeffhojlo, https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-hojlo-468412/) about business and IT issues relevant to the Future of Industry Ecosystems.