Manufacturers everywhere have an extremely underutilized employee. This employee is a robust repository of institutional knowledge, facts, and random trivia. However, this employee is full of latent potential that hasn’t yet been tapped, and they are ready to do so much more.
Ok, so maybe this is a quirky metaphor, but—in case it wasn’t clear—this underutilized employee is your organization’s data. And Data could be doing so much more to help your human employees make better decisions.
For many manufacturers, the collected data is sitting in various databases and spreadsheets, waiting to be called upon, sorted, and analyzed to inform decisions across your organization.
Unfortunately, you are faced with several challenges when it comes to managing and using your data, including:
- Multiple, disconnected software systems that require inefficient, manual data consolidation
- Large amounts of data, making it difficult to identify and consume only the relevant information
- Limited access to modern tools to interact and analyze data for real-time decision-making
When you can aggregate, analyze, and act on your data, this provides your organization with a high level of operational intelligence and uncovers many more opportunities for business success. Here’s a look at the answers to who, how, and what you need to put your underutilized employee, Data, to work.
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