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Business-Aligned IT Strategy
Understand the capabilities and focus areas required to meet your industry’s needs and enable value creation.
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Top Industry Trends
Identify resource, process, and environmental trends impacting your industry. Implement strategies to mitigate specific risks and take advantage of all relevant opportunities.
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Industry Benchmarking
Reveal the true state of your IT services, processes, spend, and staffing levels to align your priorities and resources. Benefit from peer data to get a reference point for how well you stack up.
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Core Industry Technologies & Software Selection
Arm yourself with everything you need to provide the right solutions to meet the needs of your business stakeholders.
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Business-Aligned IT Strategy
Strategy Alignment
Improve OT Governance to Drive Business Results
- Identify: Discover the methods, people, tools, and approaches that can be used to ensure you have a streamlined OT governance model in place.
- Prioritize: Further determine a tiered approach to assembling teams and tools.
- Align: After establishing your teams and understanding your gaps you will have a systematic approach for pulling in the right people with the right tools at the right time. Operations and IT will be tightly aligned.
Strategy Alignment
How CIOs Can Get Manufacturing Demand Planning Right
Improving demand planning has an impact on both the top-line and bottom-line.
Strategy Alignment
Non-Durable Goods Manufacturing Industry Reference Architecture
- Identify the kinds of applications and processes that would be impacted by changes.
- Prioritize mapping the capabilities.
- Align your staff with the capabilities map.
Strategy Alignment
Non-Durable Goods Manufacturing Business-Aligned IT Strategy
- Learn about the ecosystem factors that are impacting the non-durable manufacturing industry and how your IT team is set from a PESTLE and SWOT perspective, with expert insights and takeaways to update your IT strategy.
Strategy Alignment
Non-Durable Goods Manufacturing IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook
- With input from our research and analysts and your peers, identify new or updated initiatives for your IT strategy.
- Working with our team, update your IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook.
Strategy Alignment
Non-Durable Goods Manufacturing Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template
- Once you’ve completed the IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook, it’s time to pull it all together and share with your organization’s leadership team.
- Use the Non-Durable Goods Manufacturing Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template to highlight the key findings from the business-aligned analysis you’ve done.
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Top Industry Trends
Top Trends
Ensure Your Products Have a Compliant Manufacturing Supply Chain
- Identify: Understand the compliance, certifications, standards, and regulatory activities that are important for your business sector and products.
- Prioritize: Further determine which tools can be used for tracking and tracing information for conducting internal audits and generating reports for governing bodies.
- Align: After establishing what technologies are needed for compliance, form the team in accordance with initial setup and ongoing management of compliance across all suppliers as well as considerations for management of in-transit control processes such as customs and CTPAT.
Top Trends
Non-Durable Goods Manufacturing Shifting Demographics and Sustainability Report
- Market changes are creating new consumer trends and forcing companies to re-think their entire supply chain
- Learn about how shifting demographics affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
Top Trends
Non-Durable Goods Manufacturing Digitization Through Advanced Analytics Report
- Advanced analytics can sustain data-driven decisions and will be key for organizations to remain viable.
- Learn about how advanced analytics affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
Top Trends
Non-Durable Goods Manufacturing Attracting and Retaining Talent Report
- In non-durable manufacturing, there is a need to re-train personal or attract a different type of talent that is often hard to find.
- Learn about how Attracting and Retaining Talent affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
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Industry Benchmarking
Peer Benchmarking
Benchmarking Report: A Cross-Industry Comparison of IT Stakeholder Satisfaction
- Every industry has unique characteristics that can hamper progress or facilitate success in satisfying IT stakeholders. Reimagine your strategy by shifting the definition of who your peers really are.
- Discover which industries achieve high stakeholder satisfaction across 13 core IT services.
- Learn the characteristics that different industries have that can help or hinder IT success.
- Understand what your industry has in common with others that you can leverage to improve stakeholder satisfaction and overcome your own institutional barriers.
Peer Benchmarking
Non-Durable Goods Manufacturing IT Stakeholder Satisfaction Benchmarking Report
- IT leadership needs to understand where their clients are unsatisfied with the quality of service they are receiving from IT.
- IT and OT departments need to develop closer governance models and share knowledge to leverage the benefits of many of the new technologies emerging in the sector.
- Understand important focus areas to address and insights into how your team compares with other Non-Durable Goods Manufacturing IT organizations.
Peer Benchmarking
Non-Durable Goods Manufacturing IT Staffing Benchmarking Report
- Many IT departments are already running lean, struggling to keep pace with never-ending demands from the business to be a reliable operator and effective partner, all while finding time and resources to be innovative.
- Manufacturing environments tend to have very low staff turnover. While this appears to be a positive on the surface, it can be a sign of stagnation and failure to bring in new skills.
- By taking the IT Staffing Diagnostic and participating in our unique IT Spend Benchmarking, you will gain critical insights to position your IT team to be more strategic.
Peer Benchmarking
Non-Durable Goods IT Management & Governance Benchmarking Report
- Understanding your IT team’s perception of what’s important and how well they’re doing is central to identifying strengths, weaknesses, and potential misalignments with business priorities and expectations.
- Learn about how IT departments in your industry assess the importance and effectiveness of 45 IT processes to gauge your own alignment and identify select processes for targeted improvement.
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Core Industry Technologies & Software Selection
Core Industry Technologies
Operational Efficiency Through Predictive Maintenance
- Predict: problems based on tolerance.
- Enable: proactive actions (predictive instead of reactive maintenance).
- See: prevention of downtime, increased productivity, and higher customer satisfaction.
Core Industry Technologies
Sustainable Autonomous Packaging Solutions
Failure to define and meet sustainability goals will mean:
- Significant reputational damage in addition to fines and legal action
- Inability to remain competitive in an evolving marketplace
- Being a less attractive option for customers actively looking for more sustainable solutions
Core Industry Technologies
Adopt Blockchain for Supply Chain Transparency
- Distinguish blockchain from bitcoin by introducing a business-centric definition of blockchain around its unique and competitive technological features.
- Discover successful blockchain use cases in different industries; business leaders can leverage tangible real-life examples to interpret the impact of blockchain on their own industry.
- By analyzing the value chain of their business, CIOs can understand stakeholder pain points and craft a blockchain use case around them.
Core Industry Technologies
Advanced Inventory Management
Effective, technology-led inventory management can help address supply chain challenges. This research presents a playbook to deploy advanced technology and improve your inventory management maturity. Critical components of this playbook include an overview of inventory management systems and their advanced capabilities, an introduction to KPIs for effective performance management, and a technology maturity map to show you what good inventory management looks like. This will ultimately arm you with the ability to plan better, procure more efficiently, and fulfill in an optimized manner across more channels, customer types, and geographies.
Core Industry Technologies
Using Supply Chain Control Tower for Competitive Differentiation
A supply chain control tower allows organizations to:
- Predict problems across the supply chain.
- Enable real-time information and decision-making capabilities.
- See where goods are and any bottlenecks that may be occurring.
Core Industry Technologies
The Connected Factory
- Identify: The kinds of compliance, certifications, standards, and regulatory activities that are important for your business sector and products.
- Prioritize: Further determine which tools can be used for tracking and tracing information, for conducting internal audits, and for generating reports for governing bodies.
- Align: After establishing what technologies are needed for compliance you will form the team in accordance with initial setup and ongoing management of compliance across all suppliers as well as considerations for management of in-transit control processes such as customs and CTPAT.
Core Industry Technologies
Non-Durable Goods Manufacturing Talent Management Technology Report
- A talent management system looks at the complete spectrum, from employer, to employee, to job dynamics.
- Learn about what talent management technology is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Core Industry Technologies
Non-Durable Goods Manufacturing Execution Systems Report
- The implementation of manufacturing executive systems adds a new level of visibility to the shop floor and overall equipment utilization.
- Learn about what manufacturing execution systems are, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how they can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Core Industry Technologies
Non-Durable Goods Manufacturing Business Analytics Report
- As technology lowers barriers to entry, organizations are adopting business analytics to cope with the increased competition.
- Learn about what business analytics are, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space. Understand how these can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
Latest Non-Durable Goods Notes
Short, tailored research notes aimed at providing you with timely insights, relevant to your industry. Hot off the press, these notes will be published regularly and pair great with your morning coffee.
Manufacturing: Advice From the COVID-19 Roundtable
March 30, 2020
On March 24, 2020, Info-Tech’s industry practice hosted a Manufacturing Industry Roundtable with the specific focus of identifying the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic is having in the industry. This is a summary of the roundtable discussions around three key issues.
Discussion Summary: Info-Tech LIVE Las Vegas Manufacturing Industry Roundtable
December 19, 2019
Info-Tech’s Industry Roundtable for Manufacturing generated real-life insight about the key issues facing your peers in this particular space and what IT leaders are trying to do to address them related to Industry 4.0. Relate their insights to your own situation, extract the lessons and advice that make sense to you, and take steps to optimize IT in Manufacturing.
Info-Tech’s Virtual Industry Roundtable for Manufacturing: What Your Peers Had to Say
November 21, 2019
Info-Tech’s Virtual Industry Roundtables for Manufacturing generated real-life insight about the key issues facing your peers in the space and what IT leaders are trying to do to address them. Relate their insights to your own situation, extract the lessons and advice that make sense to you, and take steps to optimize IT in Manufacturing.
IoT-Enabled Preventive Maintenance: Ready or Not, Here We Come!
September 20, 2019
The promise of the internet of things (IoT) connecting thousands of devices and producing a great deal of information that potentially would change the way the manufacturing industry works is not new. However, those promises have not materialized, at least not at the speed that was originally anticipated. In this note we’ll explore the reasons why the explosion has not occurred and what areas of your organization need consideration if you are planning to deploy it.
Establishing a Balanced Scorecard for IT Performance in the Manufacturing Industry Is an Important Complement to IT Strategy
August 2, 2019
The IT balanced scorecard must go beyond the usual IT metrics. To be most effective, the IT balanced scorecard must demonstrate the value IT provides and reflect corporate strategies and goals.
Benchmarking Reports
Industry-specific benchmarking reports built on years of in-depth industry data, collected using our innovative diagnostic programs. We aggregate the data across hundreds of IT departments in your industry to give you tailored vertical insights, all packaged in professional boardroom-ready reports.
Non-Durable Goods Reference Architecture
Reference architectures built on years of industry expertise, honed by analysts working with real IT professionals in your industry. Leverage industry best practices so you don’t waste time and money reinventing the wheel.