Design and build industries continue to pursue dramatic digital transformation to maximize the value of emerging technologies or simply keep up with the competition. 94% of decision-makers claim to have a digital transformation strategy, while 81% of business leaders consider investing in digital transformation an essential part of achieving success.
Despite these huge numbers, only about one-third of businesses achieve the desired rewards of digital transformation. Many companies face significant challenges in realizing the full potential of their digital initiatives, including:
- Difficulty integrating new technologies without disrupting current operations.
- Requirement for better cost control and tighter budget management.
- Need to optimize processes and eliminate bottlenecks.
- Inefficiencies from outdated or siloed technology.
- Gaps in training programs to upskill existing employees.
- Concerns about maintaining competitiveness and the pace of innovation.
To boost their resiliency, companies must consider new offerings, enter new markets, increase agility, and diversify their supply chains.
Digital transformation isn’t the sole key to achieving project success and profitability. It is only an ingredient in a broader strategy that involves effective data management, upskilling your workforce, and leveraging the right technologies.
This blog highlights how companies can achieve real success beyond adopting emerging technologies. It will explore the critical elements of a holistic digital transformation strategy, including efficient data management through Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Product Data Management (PDM) systems, the importance of upskilling employees with targeted training, and how businesses can leverage expert solutions and support to streamline operations and boost profitability.
How to Maximize the Value of Digital Transformation
Optimize Workflows Through Expert Solutions and Support
Engineering, architecture, construction, manufacturing, energy, and utilities are among the industries that heavily rely on human collaboration to achieve the desired outcomes. However, when teams work in siloed environments, missed deadlines, redundant work, and data delays become inevitable. An architect might send outdated designs to an engineer and cause delays as they have to backtrack and make corrections. Or a manufacturer could start production based on an earlier design, only to realize it’s no longer accurate.
Autodesk® solutions such as Autodesk Vault™, Autodesk Fusion ®, and Autodesk Construction Cloud ® can help streamline design, collaboration, and project delivery. However, to fully leverage their advantages, a deeper understanding of their capabilities, integrations, and best practices is needed.
“Leaders and experts note that implementing new tools is not enough to drive effective digital transformation. Rather, these solutions must be accompanied by process improvements and a shift in mindset, both from employees and leadership.”
- 2024 Autodesk Design and Make Report
Expert consultation, implementation, and support play an important role in maximizing the adoption and effectiveness of Autodesk tools. By optimizing workflows, customizing solutions to meet specific needs, and ensuring seamless software and process integration across teams, experts help businesses achieve greater efficiency. With the added advantage of Platinum Autodesk Support, your organization can proactively address challenges, minimize downtime, and make informed, cost-effective decisions.
Manage Data Effectively to Maximize Technology’s Potential
Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to transform the future of technology, driving innovation and sustainability. In fact, many companies and experts are already leveraging AI to enhance their project or product sustainability by implementing AI tools during the conceptual phase. These AI tools help experts optimize decision-making and design solutions, creating more sustainable outcomes.
The 2024 Autodesk Design and Make Report reveals that leaders see productivity gains as a key benefit of AI and encourage their teams to pilot use cases to seize opportunities early. However, teams cannot properly leverage AI if they don’t manage their data. AI depends on the quality and structure of data in order to output accurate insights and provide meaningful outcomes.
Ineffective data engineering can lead to numerous challenges as your business progresses with future projects, making it crucial to implement strong data engineering frameworks to guide your team’s pipelines.
PLM and PDM solutions enable a clear flow of information from concept to production, ensuring that every decision is based on accurate, up-to-date data.
With PLM, businesses can track every stage of the product lifecycle. Meanwhile, PDM systems streamline access to product data, reducing time spent searching for information and improving team collaboration. PLM and PDM solutions promote better resource and budget allocation, faster response times to market changes, and the ability to innovate confidently while minimizing errors and rework.
Upskill Teams Through Targeted Software Training Programs
27% of organizations have significantly increased their investments in technology over the past 3 years, more than doubling the rate of overall investments. But what’s the value of digital maturity without a skilled workforce? Besides project efficiency, teams must continuously upskill to achieve business resiliency.
Attracting, training, and retaining talent ranks as a top-three challenge for 29% of business leaders and experts. U.S. training expenditures reached a record $101.8 billion in 2023, indicating a strong commitment to workforce development.
“Even with increased recognition of the need for upskilling programs, most leaders say they don’t have the internal resources to meet that need.”
- 2024 Autodesk Design and Make Report
Moreover, cost control has become the top challenge for businesses, with 33% of business leaders citing it as their primary concern, surpassing talent-related issues.
A Platinum Autodesk Partner offers dedicated training programs that directly address skill gaps, enabling teams to quickly apply new knowledge to real-world projects, ensuring faster adoption, reducing errors, and maximizing ROI by boosting team efficiency.
Strategic Partnership Allows Businesses to Perform at the Highest Level
What happens when you combine expert solutions with strategic support?
A leading equipment dealer, bringing together professionals from diverse industries, faced challenges due to team fragmentation driven by their varied preferences and analysis tools. This issue worsened as the company expanded, with engineering resources becoming increasingly limited by the CAD platforms on which they were trained.
The company approached our solutions engineers to enhance its document management and meet its growing demands. Having outgrown its previous processes and systems, it needed improved revision control, better design history tracking, more efficient manufacturing tools, and smoother integration with its other business systems.
After careful planning, our team migrated the company’s files to a new server and implemented Vault Professional for engineering. We also conducted training sessions in small groups. Within a week, the engineering team was fully proficient in using Vault Professional.
Today, this leading equipment dealer is equipped with the latest data management tools to support its ongoing growth and success.
Unlock the Power of Digital Maturity with Hagerman & Company
Adopting the latest technology to achieve quick wins and long-term gains for your projects and business is only a portion of your path to success. To fully capitalize on your digital transformation, you should also focus on expertly managing data, implementing it, and training your employees to utilize the full potential of your tools.
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