Digital Transformation
Digital transformation fundamentally reshapes business operations by integrating digital technology to realize strategic aspirations at all organizational levels. It boosts agility, allowing businesses to adapt to market shifts, commodity price changes, workforce dynamics, and other internal and external factors.
Successfully managing this transformation requires careful alignment of business strategies with digital technologies and workforce perceptions, a challenge expertly handled by teams like the Digital Transformation team from True North Solutions, ensuring that the transformation aligns with business goals and delivers comprehensive benefits.
Companies that embrace digital transformation set themselves on the fast track to success. But aligning business strategy with workforce perceptions and digital technologies is a serious challenge. Done poorly, it can result in selecting technology for the sake of technology, which can mean cost overruns, a lack of business alignment, missed milestones, and increased operational risk.
Done right, this transformation can result in enterprise-wide benefits in efficiency, security, quality, sustainability, and more. That's where the Digital Transformation team from True North comes in.
Digital transformation experts to guide your OT evolution
Digital transformation describes the process of integrating technology throughout an industrial organization to fundamentally change the way it operates. It's a journey to integrate technology with business strategy and create an organization that’s more efficient, profitable, and responsive to change.At True North, our Digital Transformation team helps clients align their operational technology (OT) solutions with their desired business outcomes. We do this through consulting and technology services and by asking the hard questions.
Consulting services that align with OT business strategy
Operations alignment to digital transformation
Develop vision, strategy, and roadmaps to align OT to enterprise digital transformation programs.
Requirements gathering
Work with clients to develop requirements for data and technology projects, from selection to KPI improvements.
OT governance and compliance
Ensure that data and systems comply with industry regulations and data governance standards.
OT system assessment
Evaluate the current state of OT systems, identifying areas for improvement and optimization.
Seize the value of OT in enterprise digital transformations
The addition of OT data to digital transformation will enable a more holistic, data-driven approach to managing and improving business operations. Here's how:
- Enhanced operational efficiency
- Real-time decision making
- Predictive maintenance / machine monitoring (reliability)
- Improved safety, compliance and risk reduction
- Better quality control
- Data-driven insights and innovation
- Cross-functional collaboration with a single source of truth
- Scalability and flexibilityEnergy efficiency and sustainability (ESG)
True focus on safety and quality
Whether on a client site or at our headquarters in the US or Canada, we conduct ourselves with the utmost attention to safety, quality, and workflow-based execution best practices.
- True North complies with our clients' requirements for Certificate of Recognition (COR) status in the regions where it is required.
- Across all our operating regions, True North's health, safety, wellness, and environmental programs are structured to support the wellbeing of our employees, contractors, clients, and visitors.
- Our safety and environmental target is zero incidents. This is more than just a target to be achieve – this is a fundamental value. Regardless of geographic location, we pride ourselves on consistently exceeding industry standards.
- Client satisfaction is our priority; this is the first item on our list of True Values, and it’s something we strive for in everything we do.
- Our quality program is designed to ensure the delivery of reliable, efficient, and secure solutions for clients across various industries.
- At the beginning of every client engagement, we work with our clients to establish expectations and key performance indicators to ensure alignment before the work begins. Quality is then driven by our Leadership and project execution teams, and measured, reported on, and continuously improved.
- By prioritizing quality, we help you optimize your operational technology infrastructure, mitigate risks, and achieve long-term operational success.