Business Strategy and Innovation Framework
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3-1: Current IT / OT state and transformation potential
In the IIoT space, there is a significant business and operational opportunity to be explored in the intersection between the IT and OT silos. While the two domains can continue to operate as separate entities, enhanced integration of operational and business data, historical, real-time and predictive analytics, control, interaction, and insight may lead to more integrated IT and OT infrastructures, yielding benefits both vertically within both domains and horizontally across the entire organization.
As an example, consider an airline whose IT department manages the business systems( reservations, administration, planning systems, inventory, etc.), while the OT department manages processes for ground-based and in-flight monitoring and operations.
During each flight, an aircraft generates extensive amounts of data. Using these data in flight can help operate the aircraft more safely and efficiently. Summary data from the aircraft— combined with ground-based maintenance data and even external information such as weather data— could enable the airline’ s IT department to create better predictive maintenance and flight analysis. Over time, this would help to optimize the business, reduce costs, create new customer value and enhance operational safety.
Likewise, summary data from predictive, optimization, and business analyses can impact real time activities of the pilots and crew who are operating the aircraft. This data, when coupled with onboard aggregation and analysis, offers an opportunity to improve the safety and profitability of operations and to provide an enhanced customer experience.
The goal of IIoT in this context is not simply to enable connectivity, but to provide access to data and create information assets that provide value across the enterprise from both business and operational perspectives. These information assets will serve to enhance current operations and business outcomes, and will open up new opportunities that were not previously possible.
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