{"id":33423,"date":"2019-10-23T12:45:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T16:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=33423"},"modified":"2019-12-17T09:52:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T14:52:44","slug":"ceo-speaker-series-johannes-evenblij-pepsico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2019\/10\/ceo-speaker-series-johannes-evenblij-pepsico\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO Speaker Series: Johannes Evenblij, PepsiCo"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Johannes
Johannes Evenblij<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While packaging cookies for PepsiCo in Argentina, Diego Miguez noticed that a particular part on the line broke often, and its Italian-made replacement took a long time to arrive. Wondering why his company didn\u2019t just print it on a 3D printer, Miguez went home and tried.<\/p>\n

Fourteen prototypes later, Miguez nailed it. Today, PepsiCo is buying 3D printers for its plants. The part is produced onsite, quickly and for a fraction of the cost.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have this person who had this amazing capability, and we weren\u2019t leveraging it,\u201d said Johannes Evenblij, president of PepsiCo Central and South American Foods, speaking at FIU Business<\/a> on October 7, 2019 as part of the college\u2019s CEO Speaker Series. \u201cNow, we get fantastic ideas from people onsite who see a problem and, when we allow them to fix it, they will just do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"FIU<\/p>\n

\u201cThe changes are happening on the fringes,\u201d he said. \u201cThe people closest to the consumers are your sensors, and if you don\u2019t allow them to make decisions and adapt to consumer needs, you are going to be stagnant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Training and empowering employees in a new way is one example of how companies like PepsiCo are upgrading their operating model in response to the seismic shift toward more computing power and automation, Evenblij told a standing-room-only crowd of 115 students, faculty and guests. The talk, presented as part of the Wertheim Lecture Series, was part of a day of engagement at FIU Business with Evenblij. He was invited by the Department of Business Analytics and Information System\u2019s ATOM Thank Tank<\/a>, which hosted conversations with college leadership, faculty, students, and analytics industry leaders.<\/p>\n

The shift toward automation is happening at an exponential pace because technology interconnects us more than ever before, Evenblij said. \u201cIf an idea is developed in China, you will know about it here in hours or days,\u201d he said. \u201cIn the past, it would take a year for you to hear about a new idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Johannes<\/p>\n

Meantime, the cost of energy is plummeting and robots are becoming more prevalent, fundamentally changing the workforce. Sharing videos of a fully automated Chinese manufacturing company and self-driving cars delivering groceries, he promised that what we\u2019re seeing now is just the beginning. \u201cI can guarantee you that today is the day with the least amount of change in the rest of your life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the new world,\u201d he said, \u201cif you\u2019re not getting feedback all of the time, you\u2019re not going to be able to learn or adapt,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Evenblij told students, \u201cYou\u2019re going to have a job no one now has heard about. I\u2019m going to end up doing something different than what I\u2019m doing now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through it all, Evenblij remains optimistic, and encouraged the students to persevere. \u201cYou can do what you want to do, it\u2019ll just be tough,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019ll be rejected and fail time and time again, but if you\u2019re there and resilient, you\u2019ll get where you want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

After his remarks, Evenblij engaged in a long question-and-answer session with students, sharing insights on emerging business trends and how to create a successful career path.<\/p>\n

\"Johannes
Johannes Evenblij and Karlene Cousins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Karlene Cousins, chair of the FIU Business Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics<\/a> and founding director of the ATOM Think Tank, echoed Evenblij\u2019s optimism in the face of change.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though there is astronomical change driven by artificial intelligence, there\u2019s human intelligence behind artificial intelligence,\u201d Cousins said. \u201cThere will always be a role for us, even though we don\u2019t know what it will look like in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While packaging cookies for PepsiCo in Argentina, Diego Miguez noticed that a particular part on the line broke often, and its Italian-made replacement took a long time to arrive. Wondering why his company didn\u2019t just print it on a 3D printer, Miguez went home and tried. Fourteen prototypes later, Miguez nailed it. Today, PepsiCo is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":33427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[377,1093,1462],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33423"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33445,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33423\/revisions\/33445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}