Executive Summary
In today’s fast-moving and competitive world, those manufacturing companies able to demonstrate resilience and agility - powered by a strong and stable connected network infrastructure - will continue to grow and thrive.
The manufacturing industry is undergoing much change as it faces many challenges; everything from global disruption to digital transformation alongside huge shifts in consumer demands and behaviours worldwide.
It is forcing many leaders in many organisations to rethink their operations, and so in this e-book, sponsored by Tata Communications, we will examine how they are approaching this, and highlight some of the learnings and solutions they are adopting.
According to Stephen Reid, Director Unified Communication & Collaboration Europe, at Tata Communications, one major trend for manufacturers is examining how they can scale up and down quickly, in both infrastructure and people.
"It's been a major theme," he says. "It comes up with every conversation. Every customer, driven by the pandemic, has decided flexibility is so important."
This flexible and agile approach is now the bedrock of remodelling, digitising and securing supply chains, and it is increasingly more closely aligned to customer outcomes.
"It comes up with every conversation. Every customer, driven by the pandemic, has decided flexibility is so important."
Stephen Reid, Director Unified Communication & Collaboration Europe, at Tata Communications
It leaves manufacturing leaders with much to consider, including the critical question of how to leverage the greatest value from today’s distributed workforces.
This wholesale and unprecedented change will be tricky to navigate, but it offers manufacturers much opportunity, alongside the risks, especially for those who work hard to stay one step ahead.
Stephen adds: "A raft of changes, including legislative ones, are driving behaviours, and manufacturers need to think about the implications and act accordingly for the future." Those implications and risks also form part of this e-book, produced by TechPros.io who spoke to 15 C-level enterprise business and technology leaders. Each was asked for details of how they are guiding their organisations through these transformational times.
C-level Enterprise Business and Technology Leaders
What follows is advice and suggestions to help you develop new and more resilient strategies and revenue streams that will underpin sustainable growth across manufacturing. Tata Communications currently serves the network needs of some of the largest companies across many different industries, and the experts brought together within these pages have been chosen to examine and define what it really means to be resilient, agile and connected in today’s manufacturing landscape.
We do hope you enjoy reading this eBook and that it inspires discussion and action among your own C-suite.
You will learn and understand:
- How Covid-19 has catapulted manufacturers into the future
- Why operating models have to change now, and fast
- The five key challenges manufacturers are facing
- What role there is for data and networks when modelling change
- How to manage your people through this shifting situation
- Why cloud, automation and AI will be critical solutions
- How customer experience is key to unlocking greater value