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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 11 “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 - 76 - March 2018