Accelerating the impact from a tech-enabled transformation
加速技术转型带来的影响
November 2019
2019年11月
Industrial companies that follow a comprehensive playbook can capture more than twice as much value as organizations focused on technology alone.
遵循综合策略的工业公司所获得的价值是专注于技术的企业的两倍多。
Technology continues to race ahead, bringing innovative applications seemingly bound only by the imagination. Automation, the industrial Internet of Things, and robotics, among others, are transforming the way companies approach the production and delivery of goods. The coming years could bring completely automated manufacturing floors, increasingly transparent supply chains, flexible operating models—even the emergence of “dark warehouses,” which require no human workforce.1  Such breakthroughs are closer to reality than ever before. Consider that Tesla has claimed the production of its Model 3 is already 95 percent automated.2  Similarly, in late 2018, DHL launched an automated distribution center that boosted productivity by 60 percent over nonautomated facilities.
科技继续领先，带来的创新应用似乎只受想象力的束缚。自动化、工业物联网和机器人技术等正在改变企业生产和交付商品的方式。未来几年可以带来完全自动化的制造层，越来越透明的供应链，灵活的运作模式，甚至出现“黑暗仓库”，这就不需要人力。1个这样的突破比以往任何时候都更接近现实。考虑到特斯拉声称其3型车的生产已经实现了95%的自动化。2同样，在2018年底，DHL推出了一个自动化配送中心，该中心的生产率比非自动化设施提高了60%。
Such innovations represent a tremendous opportunity. In 2018, McKinsey identified $1 trillion of potential value that industrial companies could capture by deploying a tech-enabled transformation (see sidebar, “Defining a tech-enabled transformation”).4  Yet arguably, the impact to date in industrials has barely scratched the surface. Indeed, most CEOs would admit they are in only the early stages of deploying technology at scale and achieving the promised impact. Tech-enabled and digital transformations are a top-of-mind issue for CEOs, but few companies currently sponsor digital initiatives, and even fewer are achieving the targets they have set.
这些创新代表着巨大的机遇。2018年，麦肯锡确定了1万亿美元的潜在价值，工业企业可以通过实施技术驱动转型（见侧栏“定义技术驱动转型”）。4然而，可以说，迄今为止，工业企业的影响几乎没有触及表面。事实上，大多数首席执行官都会承认，他们只是处于大规模部署技术和实现预期影响的早期阶段。技术和数字化转型是首席执行官们最关心的问题，但目前很少有公司赞助数字化计划，实现他们设定的目标的公司更是寥寥无几。
The question of why industrial companies trail their peers is a complex one. Industrials do face some of the same challenges as organizations in other sectors—from outdated infrastructure to lack of necessary talent—but they must also grapple with systemic obstacles before beginning to capture potential value. Issues are as likely to emerge around people and execution as around technological complexity.
工业企业为什么会落后于同行，这是一个复杂的问题。工业企业确实面临着与其他行业组织同样的挑战，从过时的基础设施到缺乏必要的人才，但它们也必须在开始获取潜在价值之前，应对系统性障碍。随着技术的复杂性，问题很可能出现在人们和执行周围。