Purpose
Blockchain and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies have recently gained much attention for Industry 4.0. With the emergence of disruptive technologies, it has become essential to redesign the business for innovations based on blockchain–IoT integrated architecture that helps organizations to improve agility in their operations. The paper aims to discuss this issue.
Design/methodology/approach
An industrial pump was Sensorized and IoTized to monitor its operations on real time and take predictive measures for managing these assets with more agility. The developed architecture was further extended for proposing the use of blockchain and how it can benefit the organization.
Findings
The known features of blockchain such as increasing the capacity of decentralization, trust-less transactions, security and allowing autonomous coordination of the devices along with the boons of IoT will help achieve the motto of improving agility in Industry 4.0.
Originality/value
This paper gives a new dimension to utilization of blockchain technology. blockchain along with IoT that gives a way forward for industries like manufacturing, oil and gas, engineering and construction, utilities, etc. to re-designing the business organization in a more agile way.
Purpose
The ability of an organization to observe varying demands and efficiently meet them can be described as agility. Project procurement management (PPM) in the past was stable as things did not change very often and were very predictable. Due to hyper-competition, less predictable market and exponential innovation, the existing PPM becomes very unstable which marks the requirement of an agile model to manage procurement projects effectively. The paper aims to discuss this issue.
Design/methodology/approach
For achieving the improvements, various barriers to improving agility in PPM were identified from the literature and experts’ review, followed by obtaining quantified impacts of identified barriers from the experts using the Delphi technique. Finally, interpretive structural modeling along with Matrice d’ Impacts Croises Multiplication Appliqué an Classement analysis was used to analyze the interactions among barriers to prioritize and strategize their mitigation.
Findings
As per the analysis, the lack of top management alignment and commitment, lack of digital strategy, lack of new technology competencies and inefficiencies of financial factors were the most critical barriers that would come across while improving agility in PPM for any organization. Industries should have a stable, well-established and supportive top management that has a vision for digital transformation along with upgrading the companies’ technology layer for automating most of the manual processes to have intelligent decision-making capability.
Originality/value
Industries need to be agile in their operations for being more competitive and responsive to the market. PPM being the most critical part of the entire value chain needs to be agile in the first place. The strategies developed as an output of this research can be utilized by industries for improving agility in their business processes.
Recently, due to continually varying demands and shorter time to market, the existing Project Procurement Management (PPM) processes are incapable of coping up with the pace. There is a need of an agile model to manage procurement projects effectively. This article aims to developing strategies for executing the PPM processes with more agility by leveraging the capabilities and merits of industry 4.0 technologies along with selective Critical Success Factors (CSFs). For improving agility in PPM, this study identifies CSFs from the literature and experts' review, the CSFs were then prioritized based on their significance, followed by establishing relationships and exploring interactions among CSFs using Total Interpretitive Structureal Modelling (TISM) and Fuzzy Cross-Impact Matrix Multiplication Applied to Classification (MIC-MAC). Furthermore, an agile project implementation plan was developed based on the findings of TISM and Fuzzy-MICMAC, which provides a systematic approach for strategically achieving the CSFs. Lastly, strategies were developed to improve agility in key processes of PPM by utilizing the new-age technologies Industry 4.0 like Internet of Things (IOT), Mobility, Business Intelligence, Blockchain, Chatbot, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and other technologies. The strategies and the agile project implementation plan thus developed as an outcome of this research can be leveraged by industries of various domains for improving agility in any of their business processes.
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