I had the pleasure of joining Dassault Systemes’ special ENOVIA Champions Advisory Board Meeting at the end of 2021. It was a unique learning opportunity because the Champions are a global community of people that use or support ENOVIA and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform at their companies. It was also nice to see some industry friends…
- The business imperative of digital transformation for manufacturers
- How PLM supports digital transformation at the highest level while driving engineering efficiency gains
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- 29% percent of engineering time is spent working with outdated information
- After implementing a change, depending on product complexity, it takes 4.7 to 10.3 days for to get updated data to the entire team
- 94% say they need updated data faster than they currently get it
The Value of Engineering Time
Engineering Time Is a Valuable Asset How can you reduce non-value-added engineering work? Engineers are under constant pressure to meet tight deadlines. They need time to balance quality, cost, and performance criteria as well as to innovate and solve problems. Unfortunately, they waste too much of their valuable time on non-value-added work. Imagine the opportunities if engineers could reduce those tedious activities to focus more energy on engineering work that leads to better designs. This Research Based on a survey of over 220 manufacturers, this research study examines how engineers spend their time. It identifies time-consuming activities that waste time and present opportunities for improvement. This research is an updated look at a study of 248 manufacturers conducted in 2014 and examines how trends have evolved over the last seven years.![non-value-added-time](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Picture1-scaled.jpg)
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Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Identify Bottlenecks
- Assess Non-Value-Added-Time
- Preparing Data for Others
- Business Value of Eliminating Non-Value-Added Work
- Recognize the Time Required for Check-ins
- Outdated Information Impacts Engineering Changes
- The Impact of Outdated Information on Collaboration
- Identifying the Top Performers
- Strategies to Improve Efficiency
- Technology as a Collaboration Solution
- Consider the Security Risks of Email
- The Benefits of Real-Time Data Updates
- Recommendations
- About the Research
- Acknowledgments
Executive Overview
Engineering is Key to Competitive Differentiation Today's market is so competitive; it is hard to stand out. To be successful, companies must empower their engineering teams to differentiate products on innovation, quality, performance, and cost. While finding the time to balance those criteria is challenging, many current processes make it even harder. Consequently, engineers report they waste a third of their time on non-value-added work, which is consistent with what we saw in 2014. Worse, 29% of their time is spent working with outdated information. It has become an even bigger problem than it was in 2014 when engineers reported working with outdated data 20% of the time. Unfortunately, this leads to even more wasted effort and rework. Further, companies anticipate that going forward, 43% of engineering work will be done in flexible, work anywhere environments. This will only add to the complexity of engineering team environments, creating even more risk for outdated information and additional non-value-added work. Engineers need new ways of working. One way companies can improve this situation is to provide engineers with real-time access to design data, in the right context. This keeps the data up-to-date and at their fingertips. The result should be increased engineering bandwidth, allowing more time to focus on making products more competitive. This approach also improves the growing need to improve collaboration beyond design engineers, with 83% saying it would be helpful if design data could be shared more easily with analysts and 86% wanting to share design data more easily with manufacturing. Determining Best Practices To determine best practices for accessing design information, Tech-Clarity analyzed survey responses from over 220 manufacturers to understand how they manage data, communicate engineering changes, and collaborate with both internal and external development team members. The research shows that to improve efficiency, companies who are most successful, Top Performers, are 56% more likely than their lesser performing competitors to enable real-time access to design information and 52% more likely to adopt a platform of integrated engineering tools.![non-value-added-work](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Tech-Clarity-ebook-NVA.png)
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Recommendations
Recommendations and Next Steps Based on industry experience and research for this report, Tech-Clarity offers the following recommendations:- Understand how engineers spend their time and improve processes and collaboration to minimize time wasted on non-value-added work.
- Consider solutions such as PLM or PDM to centralize design information and support change management and collaboration.
- Evaluate options to design components in the context of the overall assembly. This will improve collaboration, make it easier to identify interdependencies between components, and provide a better understanding of the impact of changes.
- Consider technologies that enable real-time updates to keep CAD data up-to-date while minimizing or eliminating check-in times.
- Establish means for secure, real-time collaboration with both internal teams and third parties to minimize delays in getting updated CAD data from them and assuring your IP is protected.
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- Why the right fit modern, comprehensive, and factory-capable ERP opens up visibility and control.
- Ways consistent information maintains the advantage of being agile to pivot confidently as the company grows.
- How to impress customers and prospects by delivering detailed information with every product at no additional cost or effort.
Table of Contents
- Responding in an Uncertain World
- The Growth Conundrum
- Expanding the Advantage
- Digital Ways of Working
- Digital Manufacturing in Reach
- What to Look for in ERP Software
- Choosing an ERP Partner
- Executives on ERP
- Control the Business
Executive Summary
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Responding in an Uncertain World
Uncertainty Defines the Market No one doubts that their environment is uncertain. Nearly every business is feeling the impact of world affairs, including the COVID-19 pandemic, natural disasters, political upheaval, trade wars, and tariffs. Raising Key Questions As a result, manufacturers face a plethora of market questions.- Demand – Will customer orders be up or down or swing wildly between the two?
- Supply – Will raw materials to meet that demand be available now or later or not?
- Labor – Can the company hire and retain employees with the needed skills and experience in the face of an enormous talent shortage nearly everywhere?
- Sustainability – Can the business keep up with ever-changing and more stringent government and customer requirements?
Control the Business
Despite Uncertainty Uncertainty is a feature of the “new normal;” don’t expect it to go away. Digital is a reality every manufacturer must keep up with, especially since competitors are. Today’s manufacturing-centric ERP allows you to gain visibility, control, and analyze not just past performance but likely future scenarios. Because of these benefits, 50% of companies are planning or actively investing in ERP3. People Matter![Manufacturing ERP](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Lisa-Sisler-Mfg.jpg)
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- Recognizing that new business models have expanded the scope and negative impact of the hidden factory
- Meeting customer expectations with smooth IT/OT data flows inherent in Industry 4.0
- Focusing on end-to-end manufacturing data flows
- Standardizing on modern electronics MES for greater profit margins
Table of Contents
- Revenue Opportunity Puts Pressure on Plants
- Hidden Factory
- New Business Models
- Manufacturing Data Challenges
- Managing Manufacturing Data
- Industry 4.0
- Business Pressure to Invest
- Helping Manufacturing Data Flow
- Benefits of Standardizing on MES
- Recommendations
- Conclusion / Call to Action
Executive Summary
The smart connected world presents enormous growth opportunities for electronics manufacturers, including components, boards, substrates, contract manufacturers, and OEMs. Yet, that growth comes with product and application diversity and price pressures. That combination of factors creates tremendous challenges to keep operating margins and profit healthy. Improved manufacturing data management can address many of those challenges. Fortunately, a proven solution is to add a modern Industry 4.0-ready manufacturing execution system (MES).![Electronics MES](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/eBook_Boosting_Operating_Margins_in_a_Changing_World_pdf__page_13_of_21_.png)
Conclusion
Operational Benefits Modernizing the manufacturing data landscape has clear benefits for electronics operations. Systems must deliver visibility and coherent data for • day-to-day operating • ease of delivering data to customers • being agile in the face of relentless change • ability to support advanced analytics for continued improvements Bottom-line Impact Good manufacturing data management can also support lower operating costs, continuous improvement, and productivity. Modern MES, with its data flows and context, can help nearly everyone. This includes IT and OT staff trying to maintain their systems, engineers working to understand how well their designs are performing, operators and supervisors making splitsecond decisions, or executives making business and partnership decisions. Top-line Impact Customers demand that electronics companies ship reliable and complete data with products. Modern MES delivers track and trace, but so much more to ensure data and products meet requirements. In this way, MES can boost top-line revenues, design wins, and ongoing loyalty. Act Now to Protect Profits Electronics companies must not be complacent. Applications, products, and business models are changing. Many older systems cannot support the business’s most profitable aspects, such as outsourced services for design, assembly, testing, and logistics. The good news is, today’s modern MES can act as the manufacturing data management system you need to meet expectations and boost operating profits. *This summary is an abbreviated version of the research and does not contain the full content. Please visit our sponsor Critical Manufacturing for the full research (registration required). If you have difficulty obtaining a copy of the report, please contact us. [post_title] => Boosting Electronics Operating Margins in an Uncertain World (eBook) [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => open [post_password] => [post_name] => electronics-mes-ebook [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2022-11-14 22:28:25 [post_modified_gmt] => 2022-11-15 03:28:25 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://tech-clarity.com/?p=10968 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [4] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 10947 [post_author] => 2 [post_date] => 2021-10-06 22:15:14 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-10-07 02:15:14 [post_content] =>![AEC Digital Twin](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Social-Media-Stories.jpg)
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- Igor Tsinman, Co-Founder and President of AMC Bridge
- Marzia Bolpagni, UK BIM Alliance Ambassador
- Rick Dunlap, Technical Services Vice President of BrandSafway
- David Craig Weir-McCall, Business Development Manager of Unreal Engine Enterprise of Epic Games
- Jim Quanci, Senior Director of ADN partnerships of Autodesk
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- Must PLM and QMS be part of the same system?
- How will PLM and QMS software providers respond to industry trends such as data management platforms, focusing on customer experience, creating vertical solutions?
- What interesting things are happening in the PLM and QMS markets?
- What do we think of Propel and its approach?
- What’s in the crystal ball for the next couple of years?
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- How today’s manufacturers are leveraging cloud PLM to support their digital transformation initiatives
- The business triggers that lead to upgrading current PLM solutions
- The compelling benefits of cloud and architecture choices that need to be made
- How low-code PLM can support digital transformation
Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- The Manufacturer's Viewpoint on PLM
- The Need to Upgrade PLM
- Cloud is Compelling
- Evaluating PLM Deployment Options
- Out-of-the-Box (OOTB) is a Fallacy
- Functionality First
- Cloud and Custom Aren't Incompatible
- Key Takeaways
- Acknowledgments
Executive Summary
Digital Transformation Demands New Capabilities, Agility Digital transformation is intensifying the need to tailor PLM systems to serve as a company’s digital backbone and support new ways of innovating and operating. Engineers need the latest features and capabilities, but also need to keep the “right-for-me” PLM capabilities they already have. PLM solutions that are customized to achieve these goals, however, can create an ongoing need for specialized services that can limit agility and prevent adoption of new features and software versions. Transitioning to the Cloud Cloud solutions are compelling but are not commonly as tailorable as traditional solutions to provide a customized experience. Cloud offers numerous business and technical advantages including lower costs, less need for IT support, strong security, high availability, and practically infinite scalability. The tradeoff is typically a more out-of-the-box (OOTB) solution with lower ability to customize to enforce company standards and provide the right experience to the end user. "Cloud" and "Customization" can Co-Exist Our experience shows that most PLM implementations are not OOTB, especially for large organizations. This creates tension between cloud benefits and creating the new digital backbone and a “right-for-me” experience. As our experience and the research for this eBook shows, however, the right balance between cloud benefits and desired customization may be available through the emerging alternative to customization, low-code / no-code development.Evaluating PLM Deployment Options
Cloud Comes in a Variety of Options Cloud is compelling, but “the cloud” is not a single option. There are multiple ways to implement PLM. Let’s look at the impacts of the different options on factors like cost, agility, and the ability to customize for the “right for me” experience. Note that these are generalizations and we recognize that there are exceptions to every rule.![PLM to the Cloud](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/PLM_Deployment_Options.jpg)
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Key Takeaways
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- PLM is becoming the digital backbone for manufacturers’ digital transformation strategy
- Most engineers prioritize PLM functionality and the “right-for-me” experience over cloud benefits. Traditional customization approaches lead to large technical debt and can result in dead-end customizations.
- PLM is a business imperative, and like the business, it’s a moving target. It’s important to have the ability to adapt the PLM system as needs change, to remain agile, without adding technical debt.
- Cloud and customization can both be options at the same time. The right PLM architecture can provide cloud benefits while also enabling customization without incurring significant technical debt.
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- How MBSE is different
- The value of a model-based approach vs. document-based
- Success factors for a model-based approach
- Challenges to look out for
- Advice to implement it
- Shelly Kramer, Lead Analyst and Founding Partner, Futurum Research
- Jim Anderton, Director of Content, engineering.com
- Douglas Orellana Ph.D, CSEP, OCSMP, ITIL4, SPC5, Vice President of Intelligent Systems Engineering, ManTech
- Michelle Boucher, Vice President of Research for Engineering Practices, Tech-Clarity, Inc
- Saulius Pavalkis, Industry Business Senior Consultant and MBSE Transformation Leader, CATIA Dassault Systèmes
- Sept. 22: Digital Transformation-Where Do We Go From Here?
- Sept. 23: How Manufacturing Success starts with Virtual + Real Operations
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- Lower Six Manufacturing Costs with IoT (eBook)
- What is the Cost of Poor Quality in Your Environment (guest blog post)
- How Advanced Analytics in Manufacturing Can Lead to Cost Cuts (guest post)
Understanding MBSE: Your Secret Weapon for System Complexity
Staying Competitive Has Led to Increased Complexity![Understanding MBSE](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/engineer-CAD-3D-industrial-design-iStock-1176843801.jpg)
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- The importance of digital transformation to business strategy
- The impact of digitalization on existing applications
- Which transformation initiatives generate the most gaps
- Common challenges developing apps
- The benefits of a low-code development approach
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Table of Contents
- Executive Overview
- Individual Productivity or Process Efficiency?
- The Impact of Product Development Efficiency
- Process Efficiency from Better Collaboration and Coordination
- Process Efficiency from Data Management
- How Can Companies Improve NPD Performance?
- Top Performers Have Better NPD Coordination, Collaboration
- Top Performers Have Digital Data Continuity
- Top Performers Have a Cohesive Product Data Model
- Recommendations and Next Steps
- About the Research
- Acknowledgments
Executive Overview
Manufacturers Consistently Miss NPD Targets New product development (NPD) speed and agility have a clear impact on competitiveness and product profitability. Unfortunately, an earlier Tech-Clarity study found that manufacturers miss project launch dates 45% of the time2. The research also showed that time-to-market demands had increased for about two-thirds of manufacturers. Engineering Inefficiency is a Big Issue New product development (NPD) speed and agility have a clear impact on competitiveness and product profitability. Unfortunately, an earlier Tech-Clarity study found that manufacturers miss project launch dates 45% of the time2. The research also showed that time-to-market demands had increased for about two-thirds of manufacturers. Identifying Best Practices in NPD Is improving engineering efficiency enough to solve the long-time issue of missed product development dates? We believe there is more to this puzzle. We analyzed survey responses from 167 companies and identified those that were better able to develop products rapidly and efficiently while maintaining product development agility. Then, we analyzed what these “Top Performers” do differently than the poorer-performing “Others.” Top Performers Streamline NPD with a Cohesive Digital Thread Researchers found that the Top Performers are more likely to streamline their NPD process by creating digital continuity. In specific, they are twice as likely as Others to have full digital data continuity across phases or steps in their product development process. In a related finding, they are 37% more likely to leverage a common data model across the stages of new product development. This common product definition with full digital continuity creates a cohesive digital thread. The report explains these findings in depth and shares additional capabilities that Top Performers have mastered more than Others. Read more to learn how your company can improve NPD performance and profitability.Individual Productivity or Process Efficiency?
Time-to-Market Takes More Than Individual Productivity![New Product Development](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Tech-Clarity_NPD-Platform-eBook-2021-06-30.png)
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- Productivity of individual contributors (designers, engineers, etc.)
- Overall process efficiency (workflows, project execution, collaboration, coordination, working as a team, etc.)
- Both equally
Recommendations and Next Steps
Improve Product Development Capabilities, Drive NPD Results Clearly, manufacturers can’t choose between engineering efficiency and product development speed, productivity, and agility. They need both. In addition to reducing non-value-added work in engineering, they must adopt the Top Performers’ best practice processes in order to improve new product development speed, efficiency, and agility. The challenges and benchmarked capabilities lead us to recommend that manufacturers should streamline new product development with full digital continuity on a common data model, creating a complete digital thread to improve NPD performance. To do this, they should adopt best practice processes and technology. Streamline Processes and Transitions Manufacturers should streamline transitions between project phases by:- Implementing formal, cross-departmental processes
- Providing cohesive design and product development data needed for reviews, approvals, and change management
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- Providing a common data model and digital data continuity across product design and development phases
- Promoting communication and collaboration across departmental boundaries and encouraging project-level coordination
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- How today’s manufacturers are leveraging cloud PLM to support their digital transformation initiatives
- The business triggers that lead to upgrading a custom PLM solution
- The compelling benefits of cloud and the choices that need to be made
- Merging the operational phase of the product lifecycle with the voice of the customer
- Closing the loop to deliver a true customer-centric product experience
- Integrating product and customer experience elements from several underlying systems
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Table of Contents
- The Smart Product Imperative
- The Continuing Smart Product Revolution
- What's Driving Smart Products?
- Beyond Smart Equipment to Digital Business Models
- Multi-faceted Business Benefits
- Smart Products Improve Profitability
- Business Challenges
- Technical Issues
- How Can Companies Improve Performance?
- What Do Top Performers Do Differently?
- Top Performers Have More Integrated Systems
- Conclusions
- About the Research
- Acknowledgments
The Smart Product Imperative
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How Can Companies Improve Performance?
Identifying the Top Performers Researchers used our performance banding process to understand what companies that excel at profiting from smart products do differently. Respondents were asked to compare their performance as compared to their competition over the prior 24 months in a number of business metrics for smart products:- Revenue growth
- Profit margin expansion
- Service cost reduction
- Customer retention
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Conclusions
Smart Products are Mandatory Smart products are important or critical to the long-term profitability of most manufacturers. The vast majority of companies surveyed have transitioned to smart products and about one-half of their equipment, devices, and machines are smart. The Benefits are Compelling The transition to smart products provides significant business benefits, including double-digit revenue increase and cost reduction. The leaders, the Top Performers, are gaining even more significant gains from smart equipment, including on average:- 43% revenue growth
- 20% cost reduction
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Table of Contents
- Predictive Quality
- Risk-based Approach
- The Next Level of Risk-Based Approaches
- Feedback Loops
- Data Flows for Good Decisions
- Manufacturing Data Platform
- Advanced Quality Analytics
- Predictive Quality Recommendations
- Getting to Action
- Software for Predictive Quality
- Conclusions
- Recommendations
- Acknowledgements
Predictive Quality
Beyond Traditional Quality Systems![Predictive Quality](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Screenshot_7_19_21__1_22_PM.png)
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- Margin: Lower costs through reduced scrap, rework, sampling and testing
- Speed of new products: Improve design for manufacturability and quality (DFM/DFQ)
- Risk: Realize regulators’ vision of minimizing both regulatory non-compliance harm and potential health hazards
- Cycle time: Products move in the process envelope with complete documentation at every step
- Quality: Fewer non-conformances during production
- Field outcomes: Reduced customer complaints, adverse events, and in-use products issues, and ability to quickly improve
Conclusions
Predictive quality allows a medical device manufacturer not only to comply, but to improve its business results. Building on the risk-based approach to more fully encompass the complete quality system, including production, is a logical next step. Yet, traditional software approaches leave too many gaps in the information flow. Predictive quality is only possible when medical device manufacturers have an agile, responsive, and integrated manufacturing data system to support it. The platform must pull in many data streams, put them in context, and conduct effective predictive analysis. It must integrate both to OT and enterprise, creating feedback loops at many levels. There are companies starting to do that today. Medical device industry leaders are building out the information systems to enable automated release. So, beyond documentation of the process and product, the system will understand whether all processes stayed within the designed envelope to ensure a high-quality product result. Companies that can step into this next level of predictive quality will have advantages in speed, regulatory compliance, cost, and confidence. *This summary is an abbreviated version of the research and does not contain the full content. Please visit our sponsor Critical Manufacturing for the full research (registration required). If you have difficulty obtaining a copy of the report, please contact us. [post_title] => Predictive Quality for Medical Devices (eBook) [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => open [post_password] => [post_name] => predictive-quality-ebook [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2022-11-14 22:28:25 [post_modified_gmt] => 2022-11-15 03:28:25 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://tech-clarity.com/?p=10670 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [19] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 10650 [post_author] => 2 [post_date] => 2021-07-13 14:36:29 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-07-13 18:36:29 [post_content] =>![Transformation Strategies](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Tech-Clarity-eBook-Exec-Survey-2021-06-04.png)
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Table of Contents
- Business Risk and Disruptions Have Grown
- COVID-19 Disruption Brought Surprises
- Some Are More Prepared For Future Disruptions
- 2021 Returns to Balanced Response to Disruption
- Actions and Strategies Realigned (Exiting Crisis Mode)
- Strategic Drivers Return to Long-Term Sustainability
- Importance of Technology To Long-Term Success
- A Wide Variety of Technologies Are Strategic
- Pursuing A Variety of Tech-Supported Initiatives
- Executing Initiatives Is Still A Challenge
- Technology Adoption Challenges
- Conclusions and Next Steps
- About the Research
- Acknowledgments
Risk and Disruption Countered By Transformation
The Crisis Is Passing, But Business Risk and Disruption Persist In 2019, our Executive Strategies for Long-Term Business Success1 study found that business risk and disruption had increased for about three-quarters of survey participants over the prior five years. Clearly, business risk and disruption are not new. In 2020, our Business Sustainability (and Survival) Strategies 20202 research found that the COVID-19 disruption led many organizations to go into survival mode. The impact of the pandemic was unpredictable and had a more prolonged impact than other recent disruptions including earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic activity, hurricanes, and human-created events like terrorism and armed conflict. Although they remained committed to important strategic initiatives like digital transformation and innovation, they lost focus on other essential pillars of long-term business sustainability. Although some are still struggling personally and professionally, our 2021 survey of 246 organizations finds that many organizations have emerged stronger because they innovated and implemented new technology to survive. The result is a market divided into organizations that are more agile and prepared for the next disruption and others who are at significant survival risk.![Transformation Strategies](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Tech-Clarity-eBook-Exec-Survey-2021-06-04-4.png)
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2021 Returns to Balanced Response to Disruption
Survival Mode 2020 In 2020, we shared how organizations were responding to the disruption. The results were simultaneously encouraging and discouraging. We saw that organizations enhanced their activity on some long-term business sustainability priorities while putting others on the back burner. We believe this was a short-term survival tactic. We learned that organizations were:- Accelerating digital transformation
- Maintaining investment in innovation and agility
- Decreased attention, slowed down, or even put on hold developing the workforce of the future and improving environmental impact
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Importance of Technology To Long-Term Success
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Conclusions and Next Steps
The Crisis Is Subsiding Our 2021 survey finds that responding to COVID-19 disruption is no longer the most pressing inhibitor to focusing strategy on long-term business success and profitability. Researchers found that company strategies are now more balanced and organizations can better address all of the pillars of long-term business success – including those related to corporate responsibility. Stronger Capabilities During the disruption, many organizations accelerated digital transformation, enhanced innovation, and increased their agility. They also adopted new, digital technologies and ways of working to better collaborate and support remote work. In many ways, those organizations that invested in these types of digital transformation are better prepared for the next disruption. Risk, Disruption, and Opportunity Despite the reduced impact of the current disruption, business risk skyrocketed between 2019 and 2021. The disruption led to new risks like new competitors. Further, organizations still need to address rapidly evolving business models, new technology adoption, environmental concerns, socio-economic issues, and political uncertainty. Be Better, Adapt, Or Risk Being Obsolete Now that the short-term crisis has passed, organizations can focus on the three pillars of long-term business sustainability. But organizations must remain agile, continue to transform, and learn to be prepared to respond to future disruptions. They must continue to adopt new technology and business models, despite initiative execution and technology adoption challenges. Lastly, they must remember to maintain a balanced strategy that includes product and service innovation, workforce development, environmental stewardship, and corporate social responsibility. *This summary is an abbreviated version of the ebook and does not contain the full content. For the full research, please visit our sponsor Dassault Systèmes. If you have difficulty obtaining a copy of the research, please contact us. [post_title] => Business Sustainability and Transformation Strategies (survey results) [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => open [post_password] => [post_name] => transformation-strategies-ebook [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2022-11-14 22:28:57 [post_modified_gmt] => 2022-11-15 03:28:57 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://tech-clarity.com/?p=10650 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) ) [post_count] => 20 [current_post] => -1 [in_the_loop] => [post] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 11049 [post_author] => 2 [post_date] => 2022-01-12 16:01:14 [post_date_gmt] => 2022-01-12 21:01:14 [post_content] =>![ENOVIA Champions Program](https://tech-clarity.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Untitled_document_-_Google_Docs.png)
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