The Intelligent Enterprise Ensures Your Future Viability

In an ever-changing world, you need to find ways to cope with new challenges fast. You need to adapt, react, and act quickly. It’s no surprise that there is no single solution that can solve every problem. But there is one concept that is worth striving for – becoming an intelligent enterprise.

This is the concept of a new mindset and the acquisition of skills and abilities that enable adjusting quickly in a changing environment to ensure sustainable growth for your business. The intelligent enterprise is no trend or buzzword, it’s a concrete concept. And although the intelligent enterprise is not about one specific technology or system, it requires a matching technology stack as an enabler.

There is no set path for how your company can become an intelligent business. This journey is very individual because it depends on your specific requirements, systems, and processes. But this individuality does not mean that the journey to an intelligent enterprise is expensive or complex. Like the features of an intelligent business – adaptiveness, flexibility, and agility – your journey will be just the same: an iterative and step-by-step approach.

As the world, society, and technology are constantly evolving – and the frequency and impact of changes increases – the economy and businesses need to change the way they think and act, too.

You need to speed up your capacity to react, move forward, and stay ahead of competitors – otherwise you’ll get left behind. Long lasting business models that worked for centuries are now put to the test.

Is your business model able to cope with these challenges? Is it flexible and adaptive enough?

The silver lining: There are not only challenges out there – new opportunities are emerging as well, empowered by this new mindset and advanced technologies.

Is your business able to leverage these opportunities?

It’s a good idea to open the focus of your business and search for ways to gain new skills and abilities. All with the goal of coping with challenges and leveraging these opportunities. One key element of an intelligent enterprise is opening up perspectives – especially across the silos of your company.

Think about how to enrich your products by additional services or how changing to an “as a service” business model could be more adaptive for your customer requirements. Because it is definitively about changing perspectives: Maybe thinking from the perspective of a start-up might reveal where your long-term business model could become vulnerable, e.g. by a new platform provider. To do so, you evolve projects from a small scale up to large scale while constantly measuring, challenging, and adjusting the success – just like start-ups do.

Asking the right questions to get to the right answers is the core concept of the intelligent enterprise and that’s what sets it apart from other enterprises.

Being an intelligent enterprise means initiating change proactively and becoming the first one to move instead of only being a follower – designing the future instead of only reacting to it.

Here is an example, where prediction in combination with sensor technology leads to a greater flexibility. Being flexible both in mind and in company structure, is not enough however, because you still need some reference points for your decisions. But they could change from time to time.

Agility gives you the opportunity to adjust your strategy to changing requirements and environments. But an agile mindset is imperative in running your daily business. Here is an example of how to incorporate agility to business.

Ideally, having these abilities will enable you not only to react to changes but also to be part of that change.
Our Kia Mia case presents a good example of how a challenge such as not having staff available could be turned into an advantage. Providing innovative technology enriches the customer and product experience.

As you might have already recognised, major improvements and newly gained abilities can be empowered by technology. Let’s take a look at different ways you can fine tune your business and how each action might meet your specific requirements.

Incorporating the digital core at the center of your business forms the basis to add intelligent cloud-based technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), robotics process automation (RPA), Internet of Things (IoT), or analytics – to name just a few.

These technologies usher in a new level of digital transformation. Talking about digitalisation is not revolutionary anymore, it’s more of a natural evolution nowadays. For example, think of your smartphone assistants: Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa, or etc. They have speech recognition and conversational AI integrated to answer your questions and give you a weather forecast. You can control the room temperature, windows, doors, and parts of your kitchen via an app. We already live in smart homes where a robot vacuums and cleans the floor while you are taking a bath.

Transfer those technologies into a business context and imagine the potential and opportunities in the not too distant future.

Let’s start a conversation about your current challenges, pain points, or about your plans and dreams for the future. Do you need creative inspiration, operational, or technical support to integrate processes? Is the accompanying change management even needed?

Based on our experience, there are usually some very good ideas already “in the air” of your company. Let’s uncover them and set off together on your path to become an intelligent business.

• Do you want to automate your production and supply chain further?
• Is it necessary to increase the efficiency in your logistic, production, and delivery?
• Do you need to increase visibility and transparency by getting real-time data insights, enabling you to make data-driven decisions?
• Are you searching for ways to reconcile economy with ecology?
• Have you considered how you could improve staff loyalty and increase employer appeal?