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: A Life in a Digital World
Why EP Matters , Lessons from the COVID-19 Crisis The first of Abdi ’ s themes ties the shocks of the pandemic to new understandings of enterprise resiliency and agility .
The battle against COVID-19 was in its early stages when EP jumped into the front lines . The practice helped a syringe manufacturer enable their operations to deliver COVID vaccines by conducting a detailed capacity andand smart factory analysis on multiple manufacturing lines . The team delivered its rapid assessment virtually , using remote collaboration tools , and leveraging rich manufacturing data to identify near-term capacity improvements of as much as 20 percent to help increase supplies of this critical COVID-related medical device .
EP assisted another client in coordinating an ecosystem strategy across labs , universities , and businesses to support regional testing , including development of a new supply chain model for testing supplies . The end result of the project was the client ’ s ability to rapidly and safely address critical risk groups .
“ With COVID-19 , it was about crisis management ,” says Abdi . “ We saw that organisations that had invested in more advanced technologies earlier had better success dealing with this disruption . It took a lot of technical capabilities in the background to go overnight into 100 percent virtual operations .”
“ A magnifying factor on enterprise disruption requires a look back . For the majority of the transformations completed in the ‘ 90s and early 2000s , it was about integration , consolidation and tech adoptions . They did not consider or adopt the key elements needed to thrive or survive in a rapidly changing environment . The nonstandardisation of data , and resulting complex processes and systems , did not translate well to sudden changes in working methods .”
32 July 2021