Author: Petros Soukoulias, Co-founder and Advisory Board of SEEMS S.A.
Running the digital decade 2020-30, the Digital Transformation (DT) adoption became gradually a priority for most of the manufacturing industries. Modernization never stops, simply because it is being driven by Competition! This entails that, the effort will be an endless internal rolling project.
Today, companies assign this project to the most relevant specialties of their human resources, which in most cases are the Managers of Production and IT. If we analyze the operational requirements, it is obvious that we need a dedicated manager to carry out this high importance task.
No matter what its job title (CDO, CDE, …) will be, its specialty may be tagged as the Digital Transformation Architect. Based on the Company’s Vision & Mission and having deep knowledge of the Company’s internal & external characteristics and capabilities, her/his assignment will include at least: detailed design of the Company’s operation/functional architecture, wide knowledge of digital tools in the market matching with certain internal requirements, monitoring of technological trends, support of the IT – Production - R&D - Safety planning, market and competition research, and work/support innovations development.