Business Chief USA September 2019

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was aligned with and supporting the
overall business strategy. In order to
meet this goal, technologies have been
introduced to improve efficiency,
productivity, flexibility and quality to
support the business into the future.
“Digital transformation is bringing us
into the 21st century and enabling us
to not only catch up with digital change,
but leapfrog into the future and take
the lead,” Hall explains. “We’ve become
more agile, and this has allowed us to
respond to and complete projects in
hours or days rather than weeks and
months. We’re able to delight the
business with technical capabilities;
IT is becoming easier to buy from.”
The company has also seen the benefit
of mitigated costs as a result of its
digital transformation strategy. “The
goal is to utilize technology’s ability to
help manage capacity and make it more
visible in real-time. This will enable the
company to be more productive and
improve quality.”
KEMET is also working to ensure
it better harnesses its data: “It’s no
secret that, in order to be a digital
company, you’ve got to be able to
capture, harness and analyze data and
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