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The Biggest Challenges for Manufacturing CIOs

What are manufacturing CIOs’ greatest challenges — and greatest opportunities — going to be in 2019?Manufacturing worldwide is undergoing dramatic changes, as the industry continues to pivot away from manual ways of working to a digitally focused one. And no one is caught in more of a bind because of it than manufacturing CIOs.

What are manufacturing CIOs’ greatest challenges — and greatest opportunities — in the coming year? The IQMS Manufacturing blog post, “Top 10 Predictions for Manufacturing CIOs In 2019,” offers plenty of insight and advice.

Expectations for the Modern Manufacturing CIO

The post starts off by pinpointing manufacturing CIOs’ single greatest challenge in 2019: “Manufacturing CIOs are now expected to be business strategists first, technical experts second as many are expected increase IT’s contributions to growth.”

What does that mean in practice? An IQMS survey of CIOs and senior manufacturing executives provides one example: “CIOs and their teams who are the most adept at integrating analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), real-time monitoring, and quality management are growing on average 10% faster than their peers.”


“CIOs and their teams who are the most adept at integrating analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), real-time monitoring, and quality management are growing on average 10% faster than their peers.”


In addition, the survey found, “CIOs who can create a unified data model and power it using IoT platforms will grow the fastest and have the greatest time-to-market advantage with new products compared to peers.”

Real-time monitoring will take center stage in 2019. According to the survey, “81% of manufacturers say real-time monitoring is improving their business. 72% of manufacturers say real-time monitoring is essential for streamlining and making inventory reconciliation more efficient.”


2019 Insight: "72% of manufacturers say real-time monitoring is essential for streamlining and making inventory reconciliation more efficient.”


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To do all this, manufacturing CIOs need the right solutions partner.  Alpha Software Manufacturing Solutions help CIOs and their teams digitally transform businesses for faster data collection and analysis. The company can build the solution you need to modernize legacy paper form processes, while saving your organization time and money. We can simplify digitize paper forms or modernize your full process. The solution can tie into corporate systems for seamless data sharing, replacing paper forms that are notoriously inaccurate, delayed or lost.

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Amy Groden-Morrison
Amy Groden-Morrison

Amy Groden-Morrison has served more than 15 years in marketing communications leadership roles at companies such as TIBCO Software, RSA Security and Ziff-Davis. Most recently she was responsible for developing marketing programs that helped achieve 30%+ annual growth rate for analytics products at a $1Bil, NASDAQ-listed business integration Software Company. Her past accomplishments include establishing the first co-branded technology program with CNN, launching an events company on the NYSE, rebranding a NASDAQ-listed company amid a crisis, and positioning and marketing a Boston-area startup for successful acquisition. Amy currently serves as a Healthbox Accelerator Program Mentor, Marketing Committee Lead for the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge Launch Smart Clinics, and on the organizing team for Boston TechJam. She holds an MBA from Northeastern University.

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