8/29/2023 0 Comments Your comfort zone will kill you![]() It is rare to have the opportunity to speak so frankly about such challenges with a range of leaders. How, he asked, can we identify and work with the passion of our employees? How do we enable people to work towards what interests and excites them? Because, if we can do that, he said, we don’t need to worry about change management, people doing what they enjoy can move mountains. It has led to some interesting work at his organization, that I know is mirrored at Rockwell Automation, around lifelong learning. He talked about the psychological safety of employees and giving them the assurance that the changes are for the good, that they will enhance the working experience, and offer a better work life. A challenge for them, he says, is maintaining that engagement so that employees want to change and want to be a ‘part of it’ as the implementations take time to apply.Īnother executive, from the pharmaceutical industry, tells a similar story – her company set up a learning department to help bring people on the digital journey – and now that the immediate impacts of the pandemic have passed, faces the challenge of keeping the motivation and leveraging the ‘good change’ that the pandemic engendered.Ī leader from the healthcare industry offered some fantastic insight into some of the challenges he sees in terms of the human element of change – and it also touches on skills retention and job satisfaction, something that I believe is of huge importance to the future of industry. A leader at a large food-and-beverage manufacturer was quick to point out how the pandemic had led to his company undertaking a huge training program to upskill employees to understand the language of digital transformation and get to grips with the ideas. The executives present represented an array of household-name companies from the electronics manufacturing, contract manufacturing, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage industries. They all remain vital, but above all else, it seems to me, the human element is the one that holds the key. What I learned, above all else, was that perhaps those three ingredients of digital transformation should be considered hierarchically. However, at a recent round table, made up of senior executives from multi-national organizations, we put the topic of resilience under the microscope. Given this unique set of challenges the resilience of industrial enterprises is being tested to the maximum, and many are turning to digitalization – or accelerating their digital transformations – as a response to the conditions of the market. Supply chains have been stretched, movement has been restricted, inflation is soaring, and energy costs rising at a worrying rate. The pandemic and the war in Ukraine have upset a plethora of previously stable business dynamics. Recent events have seen unprecedented pressure on industrial enterprises. Such benefits will be sorely needed by many industrial companies in the coming months. In combination, they access the efficiency, productivity, and flexibility improvements that are widely accepted as vital, inevitable changes needed for sustainable industrial businesses of the near future. These three elements of DX are not usually listed hierarchically – all three are vital to the successful strategic digitalization of industrial companies. ![]() ![]() ![]() At Rockwell Automation, like many other industrial companies, we’ve been talking for several years about digital transformation (DX) as the convergence of people, processes, and technology. ![]()
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