Building Digital Fitness across the value chain

From fragmented process and digital initiatives to a fact-based, company-wide transformation agenda for a global industrial manufacturer.

Ambition & Objectives

Turning digital process ambition into a company-wide Digital Fitness agenda.

Create a holistic view of where digitalization can simplify processes, unlock efficiency and strengthen global process management.

Project overview / Approach

Establish a common top-management view of Digital Fitness priorities across functions.
Identify manual workload, process pain points and efficiency drivers using a fact-based baseline.
Develop an end-to-end view of future digital processes, capabilities and technology relationships.
Prioritize high-impact digital opportunities and translate them into use cases, solution clusters and roadmaps.
Strengthen governance, organizational ownership and the capabilities required to sustain transformation.

Baseline

C-level scoping, process mapping and organizational structure analysis created transparency on workload, complexity and critical pain points.

Validate

Eight functional teams quantified and prioritized pain points, compared good practices and validated root causes across processes, data and systems.

Develop

Prioritized digitalization candidates were translated into profiles, E2E toolchains, use cases, solution clusters and governance requirements.

Impact & Results

The program created a quantified, cross-functional fact base for management decisions and future digital process design.

396 validated pain points
46% workload-related pain points
56% linked to data-governance topics
8 functional teams aligned
E2E process and toolchain view
RoadMap foundation for solution development

Client Voice

"DIGITAL FITNESS along our entire value creation process is a key success factor for us. Together with IPG, we were able to uncover important efficiency potential in purchasing, supply chain and production and define valuable focal points for future digital solutions in company-wide process management."

COO

Key Take Aways

01 ·

Make Digital Fitness measurable

Transformation priorities become actionable when pain points, workload and root causes are quantified.

02 ·

Think end-to-end

Integrated process and toolchain views reveal dependencies that isolated digital projects miss.

03 ·

Connect efficiency with governance

Sustainable digital performance requires ownership, data governance and organizational capabilities.

IPG Contribution

Holistic Digital Fitness and process transformation framework

C-level alignment and cross-functional transformation governance

Process baselining, pain-point quantification and prioritization

End-to-end process and digital toolchain design

Use-case development, solution clustering and roadmap preparation

Governance and organizational redesign preparation

What we transform

Business Model and Growth
Operating Model and Processes
Procurement and Supply Chain
People and Capability Development

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Building Digital Fitness across the value chain