Tremendous opportunities exist today for midsized manufacturers to expand, innovate and assume a leadership role in the global economy.

Mid sized manufacturing enterprises have a myriad of cost-effective new business and technological capabilities available to them. Competitive advantage is based increasingly on innovation, speed to market and knowledge capital, rather than size and scale.

Realizing this, mid sized companies across the globe are seeking to adapt their business models to market shifts and customer needs. These companies also intend to integrate advanced technologies to both run their businesses more efficiently and also to change their businesses in order to adapt and grow.

Challenges to staying ahead of the curve
Today companies, and even entire economies, are being challenged to evolve in order to thrive in the new global economy. These pressures are clearly on the minds of leaders at mid sized organizations. Overall, customer relations—from acquiring new customers to managing current clients—is one of the top challenges facing decision-makers today. Customers today are smarter, better informed, and more demanding. Better understanding their needs to effectively serve them is a sure path to near-term growth.

Executive decision-makers are also focused on another key challenge—increasing operations efficiency - as a key to growth and profitability.

Business models continue to evolve
Current models may have worked in the past, but that’s all changing. Nontraditional competition coupled with global market forces requires midsized manufacturers to find new streams of revenue, centralize their services and build strategic partnerships.

For most mid sized companies, these business model changes represent expansion — whether it’s local, regional or global. Supporting these various tiers of expansion are both new lines of business and strategic partnerships for going to market.

Centralized services across multiple locations are also among the top business model modifications. Whether global or national in scope, from internal services like payroll and human resources (HR) to customer support such as help-desk lines, centralization is gaining momentum.

Changing how the business runs
Competitive advantage used to be about doing the things you’ve always done only faster and better. But today competitive advantage is increasingly based on innovation, speed to market and knowledge. The global landscape is changing—new industry structures are forcing companies to fundamentally change. Directly addressing customer relations and employee productivity challenges, forward-looking mid sized companies are considering strategic IT capabilities to help their businesses evolve and grow.

^*] Source: “Expanding the Innovation Horizon: The Global CEO Study 2006”, IBM CEO Study, February, 2006.


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