by Stan Devries, Senior Director Solutions
Architecture, Invensys|Schneider Electric
The 4 quadrants described in the article “Operations
Innovation & Transformation – the 4 Types Part 1 of 5” positions the
lower right quadrant as a strategy for using a team of human assets in a new
way.
In this quadrant, teams of specialists (with the same or
different areas of specialization) are grouped to provide value improvement to
a group of physical assets, and the group of physical assets can be used as a
“fleet” or as a “chain.” This is much more
than a passive “help desk.” One example
is where specialists use real-time benchmarking and other tools, working with
new business processes with the physical assets and the dedicated workers, to
unlock value of themselves and the physical assets.
