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Business-Aligned IT Strategy
Understand the capabilities and focus areas required to meet your industry’s needs and enable value creation.
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Identify resource, process, and environmental trends impacting your industry. Implement strategies to mitigate specific risks and take advantage of all relevant opportunities.
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Strategy Alignment
Chemical Manufacturing Business-Aligned IT Strategy
- Learn about the ecosystem factors that are impacting the Chemical Manufacturing industry and how your IT team is set from a PESTLE and SWOT perspective, with expert insights and takeaways to update your IT strategy.
Strategy Alignment
Chemical Manufacturing IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook
- With input from our research and analysts and your peers, identify new or updated initiatives for your IT strategy.
- Working with our team, update your IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook.
Strategy Alignment
Chemical Manufacturing Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template
- Once you’ve completed the IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook, it’s time to pull it all together and share with your organization’s leadership team.
- Use the Chemical Manufacturing Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template to highlight the key findings from the business-aligned analysis you’ve done.
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Top Industry Trends
Top Trends
Chemical Manufacturing Circular Economy Report
- Unprecedented challenges in the Chemical Manufacturing industry are forcing organizations to innovate and reduce time to market with an emphasis in recyclability and durability.
- Learn about how the circular economy affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
Top Trends
Chemical Manufacturing Skills Gap Report
- Given the rapid pace of IT transformation due to the advent of Industry 4.0 technologies and the IT/OT convergence, traditional Manufacturing IT departments are facing a major shortage in the skills required to be successful.
- Learn about how skills gaps are affecting both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
Top Trends
Chemical Manufacturing IT/OT Convergence Report
- The IT/OT convergence will bring new levels of connectivity to the manufacturing shop floor, creating great opportunities for remote monitoring, predictive maintenance, and vendor support.
- Learn about how the IT/OT convergence affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
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Industry Benchmarking
Peer Benchmarking
Benchmarking Report: A Cross-Industry Comparison of IT Stakeholder Satisfaction
- Every industry has unique characteristics that can hamper progress or facilitate success in satisfying IT stakeholders. Reimagine your strategy by shifting the definition of who your peers really are.
- Discover which industries achieve high stakeholder satisfaction across 13 core IT services.
- Learn the characteristics that different industries have that can help or hinder IT success.
- Understand what your industry has in common with others that you can leverage to improve stakeholder satisfaction and overcome your own institutional barriers.
Peer Benchmarking
Chemical Manufacturing IT Management & Governance Benchmarking Report
- Understanding your IT team’s perception of what’s important and how well they’re doing is central to identifying strengths, weaknesses, and potential misalignments with business priorities and expectations.
- Learn about how IT departments in your industry assess the importance and effectiveness of 45 IT processes to gauge your own alignment and identify select processes for targeted improvement.
Peer Benchmarking
Chemical Manufacturing IT Staffing Benchmarking Report
- Many IT departments are already running lean, struggling to keep pace with never-ending demands from the business to be a reliable operator and effective partner, all while finding time and resources to be innovative.
- By taking the IT Staffing Diagnostic and participating on our unique IT Spend Benchmarking, you will gain critical insights to position your IT team to be more strategic.
Peer Benchmarking
Chemical Manufacturing IT Stakeholder Satisfaction Benchmarking Report
- IT leadership needs to understand where their clients are unsatisfied with the quality of service they are receiving from IT.
- Understand important focus areas to address and insights into how your team compares with other Chemical Manufacturing IT organizations.
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Core Industry Technologies & Software Selection
Core Industry Technologies
Chemical Manufacturing IoT Platforms Report
- The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to radically change the Chemical Manufacturing industry, providing deeper insight into manufacturing operations and generating a wealth of data to support better business decisions.
- Learn about what IoT platforms are, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how they can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Core Industry Technologies
Chemical Manufacturing – Manufacturing Execution Systems Report
- Quality and time to market are two of the primary drivers for the rise of manufacturing execution systems (MESs).
- MESs have proliferated and improved over time while continuing to expand their footprint in the manufacturing process.
- Learn about what an MES is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Core Industry Technologies
Chemical Manufacturing ERP Report
- Unprecedented challenges in the industry are forcing organizations to innovate and reduce time to market, driving enterprise resource planning (ERP) technology.
- Learn about what enterprise resource planning is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Latest Chemicals Notes
Short, tailored research notes aimed at providing you with timely insights, relevant to your industry. Hot off the press, these notes will be published regularly and pair great with your morning coffee.
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in (supply) chains”: The logistics blockchain
Date published
October 19, 2021
Author:
Retailers and international shippers are already using blockchain technology to track their supply chains. In using a decentralized network to verify digital transactions, shippers can be reasonably sure that the products they deliver to customers are what they say they are, and that they can trace issues (like spoilage) right back to their sources very quickly.
Manufacturing: Advice From the COVID-19 Roundtable
Date published
April 9, 2020
Authors:
On March 24, 2020, Info-Tech’s industry practice hosted a Manufacturing Industry Roundtable with the specific focus of identifying the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic is having in the industry. This is a summary of the roundtable discussions around three key issues.
Discussion Summary: Info-Tech LIVE Las Vegas Manufacturing Industry Roundtable
Date published
December 19, 2019
Authors:
Info-Tech’s Industry Roundtable for Manufacturing generated real-life insight about the key issues facing your peers in this particular space and what IT leaders are trying to do to address them related to Industry 4.0. Relate their insights to your own situation, extract the lessons and advice that make sense to you, and take steps to optimize IT in Manufacturing.
Info-Tech’s Virtual Industry Roundtable for Manufacturing: What Your Peers Had to Say
Date published
November 21, 2019
Authors:
Info-Tech’s Virtual Industry Roundtables for Manufacturing generated real-life insight about the key issues facing your peers in the space and what IT leaders are trying to do to address them. Relate their insights to your own situation, extract the lessons and advice that make sense to you, and take steps to optimize IT in Manufacturing.
Establishing a Balanced Scorecard for IT Performance in the Manufacturing Industry Is an Important Complement to IT Strategy
Date published
October 23, 2019
Author:
The IT balanced scorecard must go beyond the usual IT metrics. To be most effective, the IT balanced scorecard must demonstrate the value IT provides and reflect corporate strategies and goals.
Benchmarking Reports
Industry-specific benchmarking reports built on years of in-depth industry data, collected using our innovative diagnostic programs. We aggregate the data across hundreds of IT departments in your industry to give you tailored vertical insights, all packaged in professional boardroom-ready reports.
Chemicals Reference Architecture
Reference architectures built on years of industry expertise, honed by analysts working with real IT professionals in your industry. Leverage industry best practices so you don’t waste time and money reinventing the wheel.