Accelerate Digital Transformation With a Digital Factory
Create successful stand-alone centers of excellence for a digital world.
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Please note that the content on this page is retired. This content is not maintained and may contain information or links that are out of date.Without a well-designed digital factory, organizations:
- Struggle to remain competitive in the digital era.
- Struggle to lead to successful digital transformation.
- Struggle to make the existing digital factory work better.
A well-designed digital factory helps organizations:
- Improve time to market.
- Achieve success with digital transformation.
- Deliver new and innovative products and services to customers.
- Attract and retain top talent.
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Module 1: Build the case
The Purpose
- Understand and gather data and stats for factors impacting digital transformation.
- Develop a narrative for the digital factory.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Identification of key pain points and data collected
- Narrative to support the digital factory
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| 1.1 | Understand the importance and urgency of digital transformation (DX). |
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| 1.2 | Collect data and stats on the progress of DX initiatives. |
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| 1.3 | Identify the factors that hamper DX and tie them to data/stats. |
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| 1.4 | Build the narrative for the digital factory (DF) using the data/stats. |
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Module 2: Lay the foundation
The Purpose
- Discuss the factors that impact the success of establishing a digital factory.
Key Benefits Achieved
- A solid understanding and awareness that successful digital factories have clarity of purpose, organizational support, and sound leadership.
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| 2.1 | Discuss |
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| 2.2 | Discuss what organizational support the digital factory will require and align and commit to it. |
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| 2.3 | Discuss reference models to understand the dynamics and the strategic investment. |
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| 2.4 | Discuss leadership for the digital age. |
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Module 3: Design the operating model (part 1)
The Purpose
- Understand the fundamentals of the operating model.
- Understand the gaps and formulate the strategies.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Design of structure and organization
- Design of culture aligned with organizational goals
- Management practices aligned with the goals of the digital factory
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| 3.1 | Discuss structure and organization and associated organizational pathologies, with focus on hierarchy and silos, size and complexity, and project-centered mindset. |
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| 3.2 | Discuss the importance of culture and its impact on productivity and what shifts will be required. |
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| 3.3 | Discuss management for the digital factory, with focus on governance, rewards and compensation, and talent management. |
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Module 4: Design the operating model (part 2)
The Purpose
- Understand the fundamentals of the operating model.
- Understand the gaps and formulate the strategies.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Discuss agile teams and the roles for DF
- Environment design that supports productivity
- Understanding of existing and new platforms
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| 4.1 | Discuss teams and various roles for the DF. |
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| 4.2 | Discuss the impact of the environment on productivity and satisfaction and discuss design factors. |
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| 4.3 | Discuss technology and tools, focusing on existing and future platforms, platform components, and organization. |
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| 4.4 | Discuss design of meaningful metrics and KPIs. |
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