Italian manufacturing SMEs have understood the importance of digitizing their activities and implemented plans that have also involved their supply chains: this is the picture taken by theMecspe Observatory with data from the first six months of 2018.
The analysis shows that six out of 10 manufacturing companies have transformed significantly thanks to digital; a figure that highlights a big step forward for the sector if we consider that, at a general level, only 37.8 percent of Italian companies have completed innovative projects in 'Industry 4.0 ' that have entirely affected the business, while 47.4 percent are those that have invested considerably in digital and 9.6 percent those that have introduced only a few changes.
The research also lists the many factors that hold back digitization; among them are the feeling of an uncertain investment-benefit ratio (for 43.5 percent of companies), the large financial commitments that some projects require (35.7 percent), the lack of in-house expertise (26.2 percent), the backwardness of the companies with which they collaborate (17.9 percent) and the fear of cyber attacks (4.8 percent).
To overcome these cultural and economic obstacles, actions to disseminate the achievements of companies that have innovated by taking advantage of economic incentives and, above all, by identifying the technologies most useful to their needs continue to prove useful. For many Italian SMEs, BPM platforms have proven to be an excellent ally in facing the digital revolution for numerous reasons: they do not require too costly investments, they know how to respond to concrete needs, they do not disrupt the organization but rather optimize its processes, they integrate with existing technological equipment, and they guarantee high security standards. What's more, especially in the manufacturing sector, they are able to involve the work done by partners and supply chain companies, so as to create innovation accelerators inside and outside companies.
A BPM cloud platform, therefore, enables medium and large organizations to take a systemic approach to work, improvinginterconnection between departments in order to boost productivity and make the enterprise competitive in the market quickly.
Here is an example of value enabled by the Jamio openwork BPM platform for the manufacturing sector.
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