Within the era of Industry 4.0, digital technologies are seen as the main drivers for manufacturing industry transformation. Companies, in order to remain competitive, have to be able to “ride” this wave of transformation. On the other hand, before investing in digital technologies and therefore beginning a transformation, it is important for manufacturing companies to understand what is their current situation at the moment of investing. Indeed, the success of the transformation depends mainly on the readiness of the company to apply the technological change that some of these digital technologies envision. From these considerations, some questions could rise: how can manufacturing companies understand how ready they are for this digital transformation? How can they be guided towards this transformation? In addition, many sustain that manufacturing companies will be able to obtain various opportunities from this digital transformation. But, what actually are these opportunities? How can they be identified? The aim of this thesis is to find specific answers to these questions. In this way, a maturity model, called DRAMM (Digital Readiness Assessment Maturity Model) based on the inspiring principles of the CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) framework, has been developed. The objectives of this model are twofold. Firstly, it allows the assessment of the actual digital readiness of manufacturing companies and the identification of their strengths and weaknesses. Secondly, it enables the identification of a series of opportunities, which companies can take advantage of from the digitalization, in order to overcome their identified weaknesses. Through the application of this model into case studies, it has been possible to reach two main results. On one hand, the analysed manufacturing companies were “guided” towards the understanding of their digital readiness and the identification of the main opportunities they can exploit of from the digitalization. On the other hand, empirical evidences, on the current digital readiness of manufacturing companies and on possible common traits between the identified opportunities, were gathered.
Nell’era dell’Industry 4.0 le tecnologie digitali sono viste come il vero motore della trasformazione delle aziende manifatturiere, le quali, al fine di rimanere competitive, devono dimostrarsi in grado di “cavalcare” quest’onda di cambiamento. Tuttavia, è opportuno valutare come le aziende si presentano al momento di investire. Esse possono essere più o meno preparate alla sfida del cambiamento e, per effetto del diverso livello di preparazione, possono essere capaci di cogliere con diversi livelli di soddisfazione quanto viene promesso da tali tecnologie digitali. Da queste considerazioni, sorgono alcune domande: in che modo le aziende manifatturiere sono in grado di comprendere quanto siano pronte per questa trasformazione digitale? In che modo possono essere guidate verso questo cambiamento? Inoltre, alcuni sostengono che le aziende potranno beneficiare di molte opportunità da questa trasformazione digitale. Quali sono esattamente queste opportunità? Come possono essere individuate? Lo scopo di questa tesi è quello di trovare delle risposte a questi quesiti. A tal proposito è stato sviluppato un modello di maturità chiamato DRAMM (Digital Readiness Assessment Maturity Model), basato sui principi dettati dal CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration). L’obiettivo del modello è duplice: in primo luogo, permettere la valutazione della digital readiness delle aziende manifatturiere e l’identificazione dei loro punti di forza e di debolezza; in secondo luogo, consentire l’identificazione di una serie di opportunità, di cui le aziende potranno trarre vantaggio dalla digitalizzazione. Attraverso l’applicazione di questo modello a dei casi di studio, sono stati ottenuti due principali risultati. Da una parte, le aziende manifatturiere analizzate sono state “guidate” verso la comprensione della loro digital readiness e verso l’identificazione di opportunità di cui possono beneficiare dalla digitalizzazione. D’altra parte, si è avuto la possibilità di raccogliere delle evidenze empiriche riguardo all’attuale digital readiness delle aziende manifatturiere e riguardo a possibili tratti comuni tra le opportunità identificate.
Understanding digital readiness in manufacturing companies
VISCARDI, ALICE
2015/2016
Abstract
Within the era of Industry 4.0, digital technologies are seen as the main drivers for manufacturing industry transformation. Companies, in order to remain competitive, have to be able to “ride” this wave of transformation. On the other hand, before investing in digital technologies and therefore beginning a transformation, it is important for manufacturing companies to understand what is their current situation at the moment of investing. Indeed, the success of the transformation depends mainly on the readiness of the company to apply the technological change that some of these digital technologies envision. From these considerations, some questions could rise: how can manufacturing companies understand how ready they are for this digital transformation? How can they be guided towards this transformation? In addition, many sustain that manufacturing companies will be able to obtain various opportunities from this digital transformation. But, what actually are these opportunities? How can they be identified? The aim of this thesis is to find specific answers to these questions. In this way, a maturity model, called DRAMM (Digital Readiness Assessment Maturity Model) based on the inspiring principles of the CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) framework, has been developed. The objectives of this model are twofold. Firstly, it allows the assessment of the actual digital readiness of manufacturing companies and the identification of their strengths and weaknesses. Secondly, it enables the identification of a series of opportunities, which companies can take advantage of from the digitalization, in order to overcome their identified weaknesses. Through the application of this model into case studies, it has been possible to reach two main results. On one hand, the analysed manufacturing companies were “guided” towards the understanding of their digital readiness and the identification of the main opportunities they can exploit of from the digitalization. On the other hand, empirical evidences, on the current digital readiness of manufacturing companies and on possible common traits between the identified opportunities, were gathered.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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