SME ID Sector : Waste management

Digital technologies • AI • Blockchain

The Need Global3CCS is a consulting cluster providing Industry4.0 solutions to the local SMEs.

Path to the adoption of Digital technologies:

🕵️‍♀️ Main obstacles

1️⃣ People motivation: making clear what is going to change, how, and the benefit the change will bring to keep the morale up and welcome innovation.

2️⃣ Appropriate investments and resources: knowledge transfer needs commitment, training, and capacity building

3️⃣ Adaptation to the organizational structure and processes: uptaking new technologies means a change in the management process.

Employing young people (more prone to change and innovations) help in the change of mentality through time.

4️⃣ Adaptation to the organizational structure and processes: uptaking new technologies means a change in the management process.

🤝 Empowerment of the workforce: commitment for change is needed across all levels of management and the workforce.

1️⃣ Investment for capacity building and attracting new talent.

2️⃣ Training the whole workforce.

3️⃣ Innovation and upskilling should be seen as a continuous process, making sure that improvement is ascertained one step at a time.

4️⃣ Aiming for technology-aware change as a strategic decision: innovation needs to be a long-range goal

5️⃣ Short-term milestones and apply iterative, strategic evaluation: the feasibility of the application of an emerging technology to a new domain should be revisited periodically.

🆙 The impact

🕵️‍♀️ On the business.

✅ Increased productivity, performance, and comfort across company functions, which are elements expected to increase innovation readiness and capacity, facilitating further change and minimizing the related risks. Bringing emerging technologies into a company offering does change a company's image and improves branding.

🤝 Lessons learnt ✍️

“Upskilling and innovation means Improvement, means wanting to improve, improve everything”