Författare: Amplified

As wheels are spinning faster in industries many companies are challenged by a culture and operating model not fit for purpose. They experience a need for more FLEXIBILITY to enable continuous adoption to changing demands and market circumstances. And more SPEED to quickly pick up the pace and deliver what’s needed to be relevant and competitive. During transition they will inevitably experience obstacles and resistance to change. Amplified believes that some critical pitfalls and key success factors are:

1. An unclear and/or poorly communicated vision will be overrun by individual interpretations or ambitions, and create confusion and inefficiency as people are not working towards common goals. DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE NEED FOR COMMUNICATION.

2. Leaders not willing to contribute with decisions and efforts where the actual work is done will further increase confusion and an organizations ability to work towards common goals. HIERARCHY, CONTROL AND OLD WAY OF MAKING DECISIONS ARE GONE. ADJUST YOUR GOVERNANCE MODEL, CHOOSE YOUR LEADERS AND TEAM PLAYERS CAREFULLY. AND YES, BE PREPARED TO WALK THE TALK.

3. Your business plan will fail as soon as it hits the market. GET OUT OF THE BUILDING AND MEET USERS AND CUSTOMERS EARLIER THAN YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE DOING AND MAKE ”LEARNING” YOUR REAL MANTRA.

4. Form (as I’m filling out a template) before conclusions will not only slow you down, it will take you in the wrong direction. USE A COMMON WORKING PROCESS WISELY, TO SUPPORT PROGRESS AND SPEED BUT ALWAYS KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE BALL – WHAT DID WE LEARN? WHAT DO WE NEED MORE TO SUCCEED AND MOVE FORWARD?

5. As you focus on how to reach 2-digit growth and protect your (today) valuable brand, small and fiercely competitive companies are (today) pursuing smaller opportunities with bolder moves. BE READY TO TAKE SHORTCUTS AND RELEASE PRODUCTS EARLIER THAN YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE DOING FOR POSITION ON THE MARKET AND LEARN FROM MARKET REACTION AND USERS.

6. Same people in same working environment will most likely fall into old habits. PROMOTE PEOPLE EMBRACING THE NEW WAY OF WORKING AND BE PREPARED TO PROTECT THEM AS THEY WILL BE CAUGHT UNDER FIRE AND QUESTIONED NOT LEAST DURING VULNERABLE PHASES OF THE TRANSITION.

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ASSA ABLOYs H100 proves to be a brilliant wireless access control system that fits like a glove in co-working applications where authorisation is handed out on temporary basis to users.

H-Farm is one of Italy’s most innovative companies, focusing on digital transformation. One recent transformation involved access control – for its own offices. H-Farm interior doors are now secured with Aperio® wireless handles, escutcheons and locks integrated with the AXIS A1001 Network Controller. The H100 handle packs the flexibility and affordability of Aperio® wireless access control into a cleverly designed door handle. Its standard battery slots inside the handle, ensuring a minimal footprint.

As new technology opens up tremendous opportunities it is vital for leadership of a company to embrace promising enablers to new innovative solutions and even disrupting business models. But remember, digitisation is a means to an end, not the goal in itself. As weird it may sound, you actually need to avoid creating a Digital Strategy.

A Digital Strategy tends to be created and exist for the sake of its own. It may even drive an organisation to try to score points for every initiative that is in any way ”digital” (e.g installing new ERP, CRM, etc) rather than seeking new ways of solving old problems more effectively or reap the benefits from new innovations. In addition, most probably your team will be focusing more on internal efficiency than on external effectiveness and thereby your customer.

Warning signs: Ownership of or trigger to creating the Digital agenda sits with the Board of the company or has been parked with a Chief Digital Officer or entity of the company in charge of dealing with the challenging ”new circumstances”. And of course, the existence of a Digital Strategy.

RULE #1: Embrace digital enablers and pursue opportunities within the context of the overall business strategy process. And yes, if it’s not there already, do it sooner rather than later.

A Digital Strategy also risk missing important links to the opportunities that lie within market insights and customer problems addressed by the overall business. That said, new areas to be explored should not necessarily be pursued the same way nor in the same ”bucket” as traditional endeavors.

Warning signs: Low involvement of new members, partners, suppliers or customers on the team. Decisions taken far from the action and thus the team members doing the work and continuously learning. Relatively few externally oriented tests and experiments.

RULE #2: Adopt and embrace the kind of startup mentality of try-quickly-and-fail-fast and always-learn-from-your-mistakes. And yes, leaders of the organisation will need unlearning and training.

Culture will remain strong, and in the end people most often fall into old habits even though kick-off and team building activities introduces new creative ways of working and collaborating. Not until leaders walk the talk and even work environment have changed with physical evidence that new rules apply you can rest assured that organisational behaviours are changing as well.

Warning signs: Initiative involving a large number of people where the majority team members are not separated from their ordinary assignments.

RULE #3: Consider execution outside of traditional structure and governance, as well as physical workplace.

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Why?

About one third of humanity’s resource consumption is caused by the construction, use and demolition of real estate. At the same time, in average commercial real estate is only used about 40% of the time.

What? 

Collibay currently connects workplaces and supports clients to contribute positively to the environment through increased utilisation of commercial office space instead of just constructing new real estate.

How? 

Sensors are installed to measure real utilization of premises, which differs quite substantially from what is viewed through ordinary booking systems such as Outlook Calendars.

Based on sensor data and analytics, insights are gained enabling more efficient layout and use of the premises.

The Collibay platform also offers the ability for clients to easily share space across departments or business units that previously have not been able to view and book vacant rooms or work space. If applicable, also sharing space with external companies are implemented.

For more info, visit Collibay or book a live-demo on +46 10 200 75 25.

The Aperio® H100 electronic handle is Intersec’s Access Control Product of the Year for 2018.

”The new H100’s stylish and robust design has proven a perfect fit for high-traffic office and facility doors,” says Murtaza Husaini, ASSA ABLOY Marketing Manager for the Middle East. “It’s also easy to retrofit, with no drilling or wiring needed. You use the existing mechanical cylinder — the handle simply adds powerful access control functionality without wires.”

The Aperio® H100 can work within an online access control system or offline. A standard battery fits inside the slim handle, ensuring a minimal footprint and a discreet look to gel with any contemporary door style.

To discover more about how you can extend your access control system with award-winning Aperio® wireless access control, download a free brochure at https://campaigns.assaabloyopeningsolutions.eu/aperio

ESAB has received the Innovation Award in the ”Digital Tools” category at Industrie Lyon 2017 in Lyon. Prevailing over 160 innovations presented, ESAB’s WeldCloud™ online data management system took the winning spot for its ability to provide digital solutions that optimize welding and associated manufacturing activities.

With WeldCloud, customers can:

• Facilitate traceability from single welds to the complete product because the core of the system is a comprehensive database containing key information of every weld seam.
• Develop weld schedules on a single machine, move them into the cloud and then push them out to other welding systems.
• Remotely manage welding parameters, set limits and set alarms for deviations.
• Monitor and act upon various productivity reports across operations in disparate locations.
• Increase responsiveness of repair and maintenance operations by instantly receiving alerts from WeldCloud-enabled machines in their fleet, effectively lowering overall machine down time.
• Share and analyze data by teams across multiple data collection sites, using any computer, tablet or smart phone connected to the same internal network as the welding systems and database.

For further information, please visit ESAB NA Innovation Award.