Digital Capability Center Venice

The Digital Capability Center Venice was launched in 2011 as capability-building center for lean and was transformed into a full digital experience in 2017. It's designed to help the participants understand, pilot and scale successful digital transformation in their companies. 

At Digital Capability Center Venice, participants experience every stage of the digital journey from setting the direction, through driving the execution, to energizing the organization with a well-balanced approach to the technical, management and people systems.

The key learnings are strengthened by the hands-on and test-bed environment, the digital ecosystem with best-in-class information and communications technology (ICT) players, and McKinsey expertise on digital transformation.

Lean and Agile principles are the foundation to reach digital operational excellence. 

The participants are called to take part to the “From-To” journey and implement the ideal future state of the compressor production line and sales office. They are also asked to work side by side with real operators trained to give structured feedback and enrich the learning curve with insightful mindsets and behaviors recommendations.

Cultural shift is one of the biggest challenges in transformation programs and at the Digital Capability Center Venice, participants can experiment with how to lead behavioral change in a safe environment.

Digital Capability Center Venice offers experienced faculties, the latest digital solutions and an advanced Design-to-Value Lab where participants can learn through hands-on experience how to transform a traditional product such as a household compressor into a smart and modular product.

The participants learn how to identify relevant customer needs, tear down the product, identify the main functional groups, compare them with the competitors' offerings, simulate new variants and create a digital twin.

They will experience rapid prototyping through additive manufacturing and test the modular solution in the production line to fully capture additional production cost savings and premium pricing.

The “Model Warehouse” provides participants with the opportunity to act as front line employees during a transformation program involving lean and digital use cases. Participants are actively involved in daily warehousing operations, such as picking and packing, but also in a lean and digital assessment.

The transformation journey usually starts with an assessment where the key pain points are stressed and addressed with lean tools like standardization and root-cause problem solving. The participants can also design relevant digital use cases to improve warehouse performances: typical solutions are linked to digital- assisted picking (e.g. pick-to-light and mixed reality), pickers route optimization, ergonomics improvement by means-of-exoskeleton, and digital warehouse management systems.