While digital innovation is helping many organizations survive and grow despite the major disruption in global markets, supply chains and working practices, many others are struggling to keep pace. One of the characteristics of organizations who are adapting successfully, including through the global pandemic, is the ability to apply digital technology to their existing physical processes. This is what we describe as Business Integration.
Business Integration has become one of the organizational characteristics that enable successful transformation, characteristics that we describe as Digital Muscles.
The Digital Muscles concept suggests a strong correlation between the strength of an organization’s Business Integration and the success of their digital transformation programs, expressed in terms of positive business outcomes. This is further supported by evidence from Fujitsu’s customers.
For example, Fujitsu has helped the UK Environmental Agency to introduce a cloud-based solution that delivers rapid flood warning alerts to affected citizens using a diverse range of communications channels, including social media. The result is a highly resilient solution, using digital innovation to convey targeted warnings on multiple platforms, giving people more choice, more information and more time to react in the event of an emergency.
Elsewhere, Onward Holdings, a Japanese clothing producer, has created a smart factory capable of supporting bespoke production on a mass-market scale. Fujitsu has helped Onwards to introduce digital innovation across all stages of their business flow, from design to manufacture, giving real-time visibility to all stages of the production process and ensuring efficiency, resilience and the ability to produce bespoke clothing tailored specifically for individual clients.
These organizations have successfully connected their people, applications and data to align their business processes and drive exciting new value.
So, how strong is your organization’s business integration? Is it enabling or hindering the success of your ongoing digital transformation? The best way to check is to take Fujitsu’s 5-minute Digital Muscles assessment. Do it today. The results might surprise you.
