T.A. Cook: Providing a Clear Path for Digital Asset Journey

Behind the scenes of every industry today, a profound digital transformation is underway. Every company wants to adopt a digital-first business strategy to advance their value chain and bring efficiency gains.

The path to achieving this reality, however, is often obscure. The challenge isn’t the technology, though; it’s the people. While digital technologies are rapidly becoming a commodity, success largely depends on an organization’s ‘digital IQ,’ especially how well the industrial leaders define, lead, and communicate a transformation project. One cannot simply implement a host of isolated digitalization initiatives and call it a day. Such unstructured projects create more damage than value.

“At present, a rough market estimate suggests that around 80-85 percent of all digitalization initiatives do not take off because of a business leader’s dated approach,” suggests Tim White, Sr. Manager of T.A. Cook, and expert in the digital asset management space. According to White, what these business leaders need is to find the right ‘compass’ that can help them navigate the jungle of available digital solutions. And that ‘compass’ is T.A. Cook. “We dig deeper and invigorate a fresh Industry 4.0 thinking into our client’s existing architecture to identify new digital opportunities and turn them into a success story,” states White.

Accelerating Digital Journey through Tried-And-Tested Methods

While some companies are well-versed with their digital roadmap and only need help with the implementation process, a majority of other companies haven’t even reached the initial threshold of narrowing down what they need. This can be because they lack precise technological know-how or are caught up in the buzzword spiral.

For such clients, T.A. Cook’s engagement begins with an initial digital maturity assessment to highlight their operational or process gaps. This step also involves T.A. Cook to underscore the areas where the client has the biggest opportunities for improvements and develop individual digital roadmaps to meet those needs. Once the strategies are defined, T.A. Cook puts the boots on the ground to help the client with the digital transformation and system implementation. The implementation services include OT expertise to gather data, conduct historian implementation and setup, build predictive models, check operational improvements, deploy reporting and real-time display tools, and manage and oversee the overall program.

“Most important of all, throughout the course of the project, we ensure that the leaders and influencers of our client organizations are completely involved, as that greatly increases the acceptance of the project and intensifies its likelihood of success,” mentions White.

But, What Makes T.A. Cook a Global Expert in Digital Asset Performance Excellence?

To explain, White uncovers the three crucial parts that coalesce to form their company’s unique digital asset performance management approach.