Presentation

Submitted by José Gramdi on Thu, 2008/10/30 - 11:05
Intelligence and Transformation of Industrial Systems

The ability of Enterprise to transform itself conditions and reveals its intelligence, improves its life quality and expectancy, leads toward its vision .
This happens essentially through ongoing self-adaptation and directed, breaking changes. 
The first mode is the achievement of autonomous local transformations taking benefit of organizational and asset flexibility. Transformation is painless, possibly enjoyable because it happens within the comfort zone of the concerned entities.
The second mode is realized by projects that are motivated by the impossibility to sustain the transformation needs through self-adaptation. Projects are disruptive, expensive, and risky.
  • Inappropriate transformation mode
The balance between these two transformation modes indicates how hard the enterprise keeps itself alive. Smart companies focus on projects making them more self-adaptive rather than implementing a full "to be" view. Others launch successive big bang projects that never catch up with the change needs, imposing incessant, unproductive turbulence without allowing self-adaptation to occur. 
  •  Inefficient projects selection and planning
Transformation must address both operational constraints and strategy implementation. This makes coordination and objective priority setting a sensible challenge for managing projects.
  • Knowledge loss

Projects involve external actors adding up their knowledge to enterprise’s. Self-adaptation improvement from projects significantly depends on smooth relationships and proper knowledge transfer.

CCG supports Enterprise efforts toward increased intelligence and transformation ability:

  • Enabling self-adaptation through organizational methods and properly scoped projects
  • Linking projects to enterprise vision by substantiating this vision to encourage, arbitrate and drive adaptation efforts
  • Ensuring knowledge capitalization from project realization