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During the past years IT have been become a strategic partner for every manufacturing company and has led an intention to adopt new technologies and competitive advantages in the market. Currently, competitors are really aggressive in their implementations, automations, infrastructure, IOT technologies and machine learning solutions.

New technologies can be from a simple computer with storage and connections to printers, an access point to connect a hardware interface, RFID technology, cybersecurity strategies; until a big data lake with a lot databases and PLC interconnected from machines, and interacting in real time with an big ERP (Oracle, Microsoft, SAP), learning how to autocorrect or predict when a material can be zero, or a machine disruption will be occur, comes along.

It’s not easy to be a negotiator with CEO’S and CFO’S; as a CIO you MUST be a part of strategic meetings, be active, promote and foster ideas to implement automations, machine learning solutions, high availability resources, dynamic ERP’s, etcetera.

But, it’s the only and specific way that you can have the opportunity to receive funds to implement your ideas.

What is the next step?

• Have a clear idea of ​​projects as opportunities for improvement in each area.
• Reunite with your sponsors, directors, managers.
• Reunite with your key users, present them your ideas.
• If the project and the funds get approved, schedule this kick off with your internal team.
• Be clear, restricted and transparent with costs, time, and goals of each project, you will need to earn the customer confidence.
• Present the project in a formal meeting, general progress, principal concerns and next steps.

Choose the correct architecture for your project. There are a lot of cloud services in the market for this goal and these kinds of solutions can be used in order to avoid TCO (Total cost of ownership), maintenance windows and human resources failures. You will need to evaluate and compare SAAS (software as service platforms); commercial applications or you can also create a new one. Remember that the best architecture does not always need to be expensive.

“As a CIO you MUST be a part of strategic meetings, be active, promote and foster ideas to implement automations, machine learning solutions, high availability resources, dynamic ERP’s, etcetera”

It’s very important to document all project goals, define every step, each button in the screens; you will need to accomplish all the customer requirements and needs to be realistic and attached to the initial requirement of the project.

Another thing to keep in mind, users and the project perse, can undergo a lot of changes and these changes need to be documented, defined in terms of time and extra cost. You will need to be an evaluator on what kind of changes could be added to the original goal, and which changes need to be sent to approvals.

Test every scenario described in the requirement, you must have the user approval in a formal format; involve key users and its members.

Implement the solution, but the road does not end here, you must have analytics and data from this solution, of before and after these implementations, in tangible data form and metrics. It will be great if your new solution is getting savings or earnings for the company, it will be a big WIN!

In this year, solutions like big data, AI/ML (artificial intelligence and machine learning) and cybersecurity are the principal objectives inside the organizations to have a technological advantage. As a CIO / CTO / CDO, these kind of solutions need to be part of your portfolio 2023 projects. Following are the three simple objectives:

1. Protect your company data, at this time a simple cut of service caused by a cyberattack can cost millions of dollars.
2. Predictivity and cost savings with machine learning solutions.
3. Data Governance, structured, consolidated in a one place will help improve decision making in real time.