Digital Transformation Defined
Mike Connell, VP Organizational Transformation provides a definition of digital transformation for businesses where science is critical to success. Building on this, Mike sets out the work necessary to transform an organization.
True digital transformation delivers orders of magnitude performance improvements, creating new possibilities and removing significant drudgery from the work of scientists and engineers.
Mike Connell | 0m49s | Digital Transformation Defined for Science Driven Businesses
“Successful digital transformation comes not from implementing new technologies, but from transforming your organization to take advantage of the possibilities that new technologies can provide.”
– MIT Center for Digital Business
Digitally Transforming Research
Laboratories can offer significant improvements in efficiency and results through digital transformation. These improvements are only realized through an integrated approach that addresses all elements of digital maturity.
In this video, Mike talks about the possibilities for a chemistry laboratory. Modeling and simulation, combined with new scientific software skills enabled the innovation necessary to create a new generation of workflows, driving change in how customers are engaged.
Mike Connell | 1m42s | Digitally Transforming a Chemicals Research Laboratory
Uber: Digital Transformation and Industry Disruption
There are underlying lessons to be learned from considering the difference between a taxi company and Uber. Both have access to the same set of technologies: mobile phones, mobile apps, credit card processing, GPS and turn-by-turn navigation.
Yet the typical taxi company is worth in the order of $10M while Uber is worth in the order of $100B. The key difference is not in how the technologies are leveraged, but in the way each company is set up to take advantage of the possibilities that these technologies can provide (through organizational structure, business model, etc.).
Mike Connell | 2m30s | Uber – A Case Study in Digital Transformation
Develop Scientists and Engineers into Leaders of the Digital Future
The Digital Transformation Technical Leaders Program is a multi-year effort designed to develop scientists and engineers into digital scientists and engineers who will become the technical leaders of tomorrow.
The program combines training, apprenticeship, and real-life workplace problem solving to accelerate the development of technical teams.
