Dr. René Blaschke

Industrial Architecture · Digital Strategy

Where digital strategy meets industrial reality.

Helping industrial and energy enterprises build scalable platform businesses and modernize IT/OT architectures. Engineering depth, product leadership, twenty years of enterprise scale.

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Two patterns explain why most industrial digital initiatives stall.

The first is the gap between pilot and platform. Connected products and IoT initiatives reach functional pilots quickly, but the move from pilot to scaled platform business exposes capability gaps that no roadmap addresses. Architecture, product economics, and organizational ownership rarely advance at the same pace.

The second is the divide between IT and OT. Industrial enterprises run two operating models in parallel, with different risk cultures, lifecycles, and governance logics. Convergence is technically solvable. It rarely fails on tools. It fails on governance and on the absence of a shared architectural language.

Both patterns are solvable. They sit on the seam between strategy and engineering, and that seam is where I work.

Two practices, one perspective.

Both grounded in twenty years of architecture and product leadership across industrial and energy enterprises.

Isometric line illustration of a platform with industrial inputs flowing in and business value outputs flowing out.

Platform Businesses

Turning connected pilots into scalable platform models.

Architecture, product economics, and go-to-market for connected product platforms. From platform architecture through monetization to organizational readiness. For enterprises moving from instrumented products to platform-driven revenue.

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IT/OT Architecture

Convergence with governance that holds.

Modular architecture and governance for converged IT/OT landscapes. Reference architectures, capability models, and operating model design. For industrial enterprises where shop floor and enterprise IT need to share a roadmap, not just an integration layer.

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Where the work lands.

A selection of recent and ongoing engagements.

  • Digital Business Platform

    Lead Architect and Strategic Advisor for the global Digital Business Platform. Shaping the foundation for connected solutions across product lines and markets, with focus on integration architecture, scalability, and platform economics.

    Multi-year engagement

  • IoT Product Portfolio

    Built and globally led the IoT product portfolio. Defined vision, strategy, and go-to-market for industrial connectivity. Connected product economics from concept to global rollout.

    Multi-year engagement

  • Smart Grid and Smart Meter Architecture

    Lead Architect for Smart Meter system and security architecture. Aligned technical implementation with the regulatory framework of Austria's energy transition.

    Multi-year engagement

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Discovery

Start with a 45-minute discovery call.

A structured first conversation. Forty-five minutes, focused on three diagnostic questions.

  1. Where are you on the path to a scaled platform business, or from parallel IT and OT to converged architecture?
  2. Which of the gaps in front of you are technical, and which are organizational?
  3. What would change if the next twelve months were spent on the right gap?

You leave with a written diagnosis and a recommended direction. No proposal, no follow-up unless you ask.

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