Growing A Digital Mindset in the Lime Industry With An IIoT Platform…
Figure 84 The Power of 1% MOSAICO Outcome
Within the Lime Industry, introducing a
completely new solution capable of
providing the desirable outcomes and
supplying a set of after sale services that
enables reaching this outcome has not been
easy. Even with the promise of many
advantages, it is hard to convince process-
driven businesses to shift from the old (but
still working) way of control, managing a
plant on routine operation, to a completely
new system – on-demand basis and
prescriptive analytics. Even if it means
simplifying and rewarding the workday of
everybody in the plant and giving a sense of
modernity to an old industry such as the
Lime Industry, the notion of IIoT was
intimidating to many lime producers.
If, individually, we embrace the use of digital
and social networks, in the professional field,
many leaders are even more worried about
the difficulties and risks that can be hidden
in the mesh of an "open" communication
dynamic, compared to current business
communication processes. 11
When leaders reject or ignore the
opportunity to implement a digital mindset
and social networks in business processes,
they effectively inhibit collaboration, sharing
knowledge, and developing capabilities that
can collectively create a competitive
advantage. However, it is clear that the
speed and agility of adapting to new
opportunities is now, more than ever, the
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“Ops 4.0: Fueling the next 20 percent productivity rise with digital analytics”, Mckinsey, 21st April 2017
https://www.mckinsey.it/idee/ops-40-fueling-the-next-20-percent-productivity-rise-with-digital-analytics
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