Are some of your business processes inefficient but too complicated to exhaustively reengineer right now? Don’t overlook the ways RPA can automate small and large-scale business processes in most industries and departments. Check out where to start, what actions to take, how to organize your teams, and what to avoid.
The structure of most companies is so stale that a Victorian industrialist appearing in our midst would only wonder why there were no top hats. Everything else would be familiar. An insistence on people being in the same space. Supervisors looking out over everything being done. Decisions emerging from all male board rooms and percolating…
Manufacturing CIO’s have a casual relationship with engineering or product design elements of the business. ERP systems have had some degree of integration with product lifecycle management (PLM) systems but they have mostly thought of these systems merely as a data source. A black box in their enterprise architecture. They have no intrinsic understanding of…
A centuries-old military aphorism claims that “all battles occur at the edges where two maps meet.” The implication is that the most critical aspect of combat takes place where details are lacking, and control is limited at best. IBM gets this, and it is the reason behind their critical edge computing announcements at last week’s…
In my recent blog posts on why CIO’s need to get over the OT/IT divide, I explained why failure to address the IT/OT divide was going to doom manufacturers’ Digital Transformation efforts. I promised to provide insight as to how CIO’s can start breaking down the wall between IT and the OT centric parts of…
You can call me Alda. I’m 22 years old and I was born in 2010. I’m “comming“ you from 2032 thanks to the scalable inverse timeline feature on ZagZig, the largest social network since Facebook, TikTok, and most other legacy players were dismantled in 2027 due to global regulatory restrictions, privacy violations, and trust issues.…
Digital is not an enterprise strategy, it’s part of the enterprise fabric. Becoming a digital enterprise requires a plan, however. As the digital enterprise mindset unfolds, so does the work to establish and implement a well-curated, holistic, and dynamically transforming digital enterprise. The digital enterprise focuses on how the business will be executed, and that…
On February 4, 2020, Koch Industries announced it had acquired the remaining 30% of enterprise software company Infor making it the sole owner. Golden Gate Capital had primarily held those remaining shares. Koch has been investing in Infor for the last several years, increasing its share to 70% last year. Given that Koch has had…
Digital facilitates a mindset of ever-accelerating business change. The first installment of this series introduced the digital enterprise as a radical rethinking of business because of digital capabilities. No business can exist today without having some digital capacity. Barring a few outliers, most enterprises have a website, email, devices, and productivity applications. Yet most enterprises…
The bombardment of “Digital Transformation” imperatives is generating confusion and cross purposes for enterprises. Digital transformation means different things, depending on who you talk to. Analysts, like myself, assert (see this prediction) that organizations need to transform their digital capabilities and approaches now to compete in the future. But digital transformation is the tip of…
