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Shyam Varan Nath

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The impact of industrial digital transformation on business

The internet, web applications, and the easy availability and low cost of massive amounts of computing power and storage have revolutionized the way that businesses operate and, in the process, have reset the competitive landscape. In some cases, industrial digital transformation is a competitive advantage, but in other cases, it is simply the minimum effort required to stay in business. For many organizations, digital transformation is a do-or-die proposition.

Industrial digital transformation can serve one or more of three purposes for business:

Improve internal processes, thereby reducing costs and increasing competitiveness.
Streamline the delivery of existing solutions within an existing business model to reduce costs or improve customer service.
Transform a business completely, resulting in new products and business models.

A true digital transformation is a disruptive innovation that fundamentally...

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Authors (4)

Shyam Varan Nath

Specialist Leader - AI & Analytics, Deloitte
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Ann Dunkin

Ann Dunkin, P.E. is a Chief Technology Officer at Dell Technologies. She has over a decade of experience as a Chief Information Officer, including as the CIO of the US EPA in the Obama Administration. She has led digital transformations in large organizations and has written and spoken extensively on the topics of technology modernization, organizational transformation and digital services. She serves on a several non-profit and for-profit boards and has received numerous awards for her contributions to government digital transformation.
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Mahesh Chowdhary

Mahesh Chowdhary, Ph.D., is a Fellow and the Director of Strategic Platforms and the IoT Excellence Center at STMicroelectronics, based in Santa Clara, CA. He leads the effort on the development of solutions and reference designs for mobile phones, consumer electronic devices, automotive and industrial applications that utilize MEMS sensors, and computing and connectivity products. His areas of expertise include AI/ML, MEMS sensors, IoT, digital transformation, and location technologies. He has been awarded 24 patents. He has spoken extensively internationally about ML, smart sensors, and IoT. Mahesh received his Ph.D. in applied science (particle accelerators) from the College of William and Mary in Virginia. He is also an adjunct professor at IIT, Delhi.
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Nital Patel

Nital Patel, Ph.D., is a Principal Engineer responsible for advanced manufacturing systems research and development at Intel, Corporation. He has spent his career contributing to digital transformation activities and projects across the manufacturing spectrum as well as in the areas of enabling agility in the enterprise supply chain leveraging data fusion, machine learning and AI. He is the lead inventor on 11 patents, has published over 50 journal and conference papers and serves on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing. In the past he has been an Adjunct Professor at the Arizona State University and has been awarded the Mahboob Khan Award from the Semiconductor Research Corporation for mentoring university research students.
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