Eric Schaeffer, as a Senior Managing Director at Accenture, focuses on helping industrial organizations harness the exponential opportunities of connected innovation to digitally transform their businesses for future growth. Schaeffer leads Accenture’s Product Industry X.0 practice, bringing together services across innovation, engineering and product development, manufacturing and digital operations, and product services optimization to help industry clients master the digital opportunities and the drivers of change, unleashed by the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).

He combines this role with his responsibility as Global Lead for Accenture’s Industrial practice, helping automotive, industrial equipment and Infrastructure companies to digitally reinvent their businesses and create a new level of innovation and efficiency across the extended connected value chain.