People should be your priority
The grounds of today's challenges lie in people. Their performance must be managed. Digital systems can be used to enable everyone to see gaps and be able to fix them quickly.
The manufacturing company we mentioned in the previous paragraph was able to restructure about 50% of all their manufacturing processes and deploy data-driven predictive maintenance (bringing significant reduction in downtime) and advanced process controls.
Robotic in-plant logistics and human–machine collaboration provided better quality as well. Human capital was preserved, and only natural attrition and redeployment to other departments occurred.
To realize a new breakthrough in productivity, you need to mix people, new digital technologies and advanced analytics together. You need to align IT systems, get your business units to share their data and help your workers to adopt new mind-sets – for example, from intuition to reasoning.
Also, help them to develop new capabilities such as reading insights from data or taking actions based on these insights.
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