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Digital Enterprise Society Podcast


Jun 25, 2019

Digital Enterprise Society is the authority on the transformation to a digital enterprise, impacting all areas of an organization. Tune in for discussion among industry leaders about operations and action needed to drive digitization principles forward for the future of product development and life cycles. 

 

On this episode of the Digital Enterprise Society podcast Thom Singer and Craig Brown welcome Attila Lengyal, Director of Strategy, Innovation and Data Analytics at Western Digital. Attila recently spoke at Siemens Realize Live on lessons learned and he also shared delightful insights in and around the march toward the fourth industrial revolution. Attila shares his experience with creating a centralized, digital analytics office at Western Digital and offers his tips for improving both the business and technology side of any company. He shares his steps for closing the loop and successfully implementing change before scaling up, how to gain consensus with your team when moving forward, and how to effectively deal with personnel resistance. Attila also emphasizes the importance of focusing on productivity, eliminating non-productive tasks, and his optimistic view of the many opportunities that will come with the future of PLM.

 

On today’s podcast you will learn:

 

How to appropriately scale change in a company

  • The importance of utilizing advanced analytics
  • What does it mean to think big, start small, scale quick?
  • Why you have to start improvements on the business point of view, no matter how fascinated you are with technology

 

Steps for successfully closing the loop 

  • Create a problem statement
  • Diagnose and learn more about the problem
  • Create predictions
  • Optimize change

 

Keys to handling personnel resistance to change

  • Clearly communicate your expectations
  • Confirm comprehension from personnel

 

How to focus on productivity

  • Identify and eliminate non-productive tasks
  • Adjust tasks based on whether they generate income for the company
  • Utilize Goldratt’s theory of constraints


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