Digital Transformation FactTank: 5 Things To Make Your Transformation Successful

5 Things to Make Your Digital Transformation Successful

Enterprise digital transformation is no longer hype or a fairy-tale wish for organizations. While it is an ambitious undertaking and a driver of revenue, profit, and growth, companies need to transform their businesses to capture customers and grow to remain competitive in a hyper-competitive economy. Many companies around the globe are taking advantage of being early adopters of digital technology by improving operations and driving new customer value with innovations. It’s not new that digitization and data can transform the way businesses operate. In fact, the digital transformation market is predicted to reach a staggering $431.71 billion by 2021 (Zion Market Research, 2017) Digitization empowers companies to increase their revenues and keep costs under control.

#1 Identify the Actual Need

What do you REALLY need to optimize your workflows, increase your revenues, decrease downtime? Identifying your legitimate needs is paramount to the success of your digital transformation. It's not just about making your employees more tech-savvy with new technology/tools. Instead, your digital transformation also includes integrating digital tools into your organizational workflow. The objective of a digital transformation is to increase employee engagement to improve customer acquisition/services, enhance organizational performance and increase market competitiveness.

Don't just introduce or implement new technologies because everyone else is doing it. Instead, understand what challenges your employees are facing and identify the right (technology) solution to resolve their problems and improve your processes.

#2 Avoid the Traps

Rather than rush headfirst into the unknown of digital transformation, your plan for digital transformation needs to be meaningful and sustainable. The main trap companies fall into is not understanding "digital" correctly. Digital is not "here today, gone tomorrow" ideology, digital should be seen less as a "thing" and more a way of doing things. Companies mainly focus on achieving additional efficiency instead of understanding what type of new business opportunities are possible in the market now. To be successful with your transformation, you should ensure that your digital plan aligns with the company’s growth plan. Your plan should be flexible and one that can easily adapt to changes dictated by the business landscape.

Having a clear understanding of what digital means allows you to develop, and communicate, a shared vision of how it can be used to capture value for your company.

#3 Adapt

To make your digital transformation successful, you need to ensure that the new digital ways of working will create positive long-term habits for all. It is best to encourage your employees, from administration to executives, to adopt the new technologies/tools. You should ensure that everyone understands that adopting new technology is a win-win situation for all involved. Not only can new technology lead to increases in the company revenue and employee performance, but it will simplify/ease their (employees') work.

Digital transformation processes are successful as long as your employees accept and adopt a new culture with a positive mindset.

#4 Communicating the Digital Transformation to Employees

When companies decide to start their digital transformation journey, the first focus is "what" technology and "how" to implement. But you must turn to your end-users of the new technology to ensure the adoption is a "fit". Communication is Key!

It is essential to be transparent with your employees; there is nothing worse than being in the dark. Whether you have employees in hundreds or in thousands, a closed-office environment with little clarity create rumors, a sense of fear and, ultimately, employee frustration/discord. If you fail to acknowledge and answer to your employees' concerns/fears about new technology and tools, the digital transformation won't deliver your desired business outcomes. Therefore, it will be tough for your organization to succeed in your digital transformation journey.

#5 Have the right solution

The final step to ensure that your digital transformation is successful is to align with the right solution partner with the right expertise and platform for your needs. The right partner will help you to achieve your desired outcomes without wasting time, efforts and money. The right solution partner will help your workforce invest their efforts to improve your business processes and achieve:

• Data-driven decision-making
• Increased ROI of transformation activities
• Increased productivity
• Greater customer satisfaction
• Increased revenue

Innovapptive - Your Digital Transformation Solution Mobility Partner

Innovapptive is a digital solution provider of highly configurable cloud-based enterprise mobile solutions for Supply Chain, Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), and Field Service Operations. We are focused on achieving “Instant Mobilization” for enterprises undergoing digital transformation journies with our bundled SAP/ERP certified mobile solutions.

To help you with your digital transformation, Innovapptive's newest release of mInventory 7.0 is your answer for simple, reliable and productive user experience to manage remote logistics, see movements in real-time, reduce turnaround time, and increase the accuracy of your cycle counts. It helps your users manage physical inventory movement in real-time and perform physical and cycle counts quickly while achieving greater accuracy of inventory levels.

To experience Innovapptive’s inventory 7.0 for yourself, select the “Request Live Demo” button. You can also speak with an Innovapptive Solution Expert via phone at (713)275-1804 or via email at sales@innovapptive.com.

3 Digital Trends Topping 2019 in Field Workforce Management

Managing your field workforce effectively isn’t as easy it sounds. Advances in technology make it much more feasible and achievable. The evolution of Cloud computing and mobility have given rise to tools enabling your employees to collaborate, regardless of locale, producing a more evolved and engaged workforce.

As we step into 2019, here are the top 3 trends making impressive impacts on-field workforce management.

1. Improved Enterprise Asset Management with IoT

Asset Management is one of the biggest areas where the Internet of Things (IoT) has maximum utility. Field workforce needs to stay connected for managing customer requests on time. IoT makes the interaction between machines easier, without human interference, streamlining processes like reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) and preventative maintenance.

Fortunately, IoT presents many new ways of servicing customers with automation, optimization, asset performance management, and the creation of new revenue models. Field service organizations have evolved alongside IoT. Solutions equipped with IoT sensors can pinpoint problems before they become severe. Your techs can identify issues and resolve them before they happen. When a part or system isn’t working correctly, IoT sensors detect and notify the necessary departments then sensors send requests to replace or repair the faulty piece(s) of equipment before a service call is made by the customer. 

Field service organizations are heavily investing in IoT to increase growth and maximize productivity. Speculations project that over 60% of manufacturing organizations are expected to apply IoT to products over the next 5 years. They are also hoping to apply over $250 billion in IoT by 2020.  IoT Solutions enable your field workforce to access relevant information and increases connectivity within the field service operation while fostering a predictive model to address customer concerns.

2. Immersive Experience with AR and VR

Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are two immersive technologies gathering speed across a multitude of industries at the end of 2018 and as 2019 kicks off.  Both have incredible potential to change the way organizations, and their users, collaborate to solve issues effectively.

In the next five years, much focus will be on mixed reality (a combination of AR and VR), where the user will able to interact with digital and real-world objects while being present in the physical world. One such industry seeing mixed reality (the combination of AR/VR) is manufacturing. The use of mixed reality in manufacturing allows companies to train new workers more efficiently, reducing time spent training by over 30% and reducing documentation time by at least 75%.

3.  No Longer a Buzzword – Mobility is a Necessity 

When a multinational tech conglomerate like Cisco projects the number of connected devices to exceed 50 billion by 2020, organizations listen.

Businesses are adopting mobile solutions to simplify and streamline operations - making them more effective and less cumbersome. Organizations without mobile-first strategies will be left behind their competitors. Today, organizations need real-time insight into the daily activities of the office and field, creating more accurate projections and planning in operations and, inevitably, achieving goals.

Infield workforce management, mobility is more than just managing your workers’ schedules with mobile devices. In addition, mobility empowers your field workforce to access the right information at the right time in the right context. Mobility helps field service organizations resolve issues faster, maximize employee productivity, and improve customer service.

Answering Technology Trends

With adoptions of new technologies like IoT, mixed reality, and mobility, Customer behaviors are shifting. They are expecting to be met on their “turf”, rather than the customer come to you. To meet the demands of such transitions to technologies like virtual meetings (in lieu of face to face) and mobile workstations rather desktops, Innovapptive is empowering enterprises to consume digital technologies in a few clicks. With a business solution framework that accelerates your time to market (responsive to the customer ), value, and reduces your total cost of ownership.

Innovapptive’s mobile EAM platform, mWorkOrder with RACE™, is the most configurable enterprise-grade SAP Plant Maintenance solution on the market. With mWorkOrder , you have the power to improve capital asset management in ways that increase reliability, enhance predictive maintenance, ensure regulatory compliance, reduce energy usage, and support sustainability initiatives.

Learn how Australia’s largest utility company utilizes Innovapptive’s mWorkOrder with RACE™ to optimize their maintenance planning, improve asset reliability, and save field workers time as they work on the go with real-time updates. Read their story here: https://bit.ly/2LWQXNQ