Digital Engineering Services and Solutions
Unlock business value and outcomes with smart products & services, autonomous operations, and a connected ecosystem.
Grade Your Digital Engineering & Manufacturing Maturity
Re-engineering the intersection of strategy, technology, and transformation
What is digital engineering? It is the practice of achieving elevated business outcomes by connecting core capabilities leveraging modern tools and technologies within your existing business and technical ecosystem. It leverages a diverse and harmonized highway of data and information flow to enable your business to become smarter and more connected. Customer personalization, product design, manufacturing, distribution and maintenance are all key value-driven use cases. To achieve these results, you must leverage a variety of technologies, including artificial intelligence, AR/VR, digital twins, 5G and Internet of Things (IoT).
To unlock value from digital engineering, we can help you find answers to questions like:
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Where are you overlooking value generation?
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How do you build the right operating model to support your digital transformation?
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Which partners will enhance your engineering capabilities?
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How do you drive enterprise change and transformation?
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How can you deliver better customer experiences, customized products, and personalized services?
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How can autonomous operations help you drive productivity?
For organizations more mature in the digital engineering journey, some key questions include:
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How are your service providers engineering value and bringing cost savings across your value chain?
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Is your ability to scale-up your pilots across the enterprise sustainable?
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What metrics are you tracking, verifying, and validating to measure impact of your initiatives against the proposed business case
The Top Digital Engineering Agenda Items on a CxO’s Desk
Designing data threads to enable scale for digital initiatives in-line with strategic business objectives
Converging business and technology towards a software-defined and agile operating model
Establishing & Improving sustainability goals across the entire business value chain
ISG's Digital Engineering Capabilities
Discrete Manufacturing
Learn about ISG's expertise in the manufacturing space, including automotive, industrial and aviation. Embrace digital transformation at speed and scale for better resiliency, agility, adaptability and spend/value.
Consumer Packaged Goods
Learn about ISG’s expertise in building digital solutions like direct-to-consumer ecommerce, IoT, connected smart homes or demand-driven supply chains. From procurement to your network, software, next-gen sourcing and benchmarking needs, ISG brings deep CPG market and advisory insights to help you achieve your strategic goals.
Hi-Tech, Telco & Media
Learn how ISG has helped the world's most respected communications, media and technology companies outrun the competition. Leverage ISG’s expertise to achieve operational excellence, sustainable growth and savings. Are you considering investing in AI, augmented reality or experiential marketing tech? We can advise you.
Life Sciences, Med Tech & Pharma
Discover how we can solve your Life Sciences industry specific challenges. We'll help you navigate regulatory hurdles and cost pressures – plus digitize to focus on patient centricity and medical innovation.
Oil, Gas and Chemical
Optimize your strategic direction and digital projects for defensibility in a transparent industry. Find out how our advisory and solutions can identify and bridge the gaps, enabling your digital transformation goals.
Discover What's Next
Contact us to learn more about how ISG advisory can help you in your transformation journey.
ISG’s team of engineering practitioners possesses deep industry expertise and technical skillset that offers independent and objective advisory to help you design your end-to-end digital transformation program.
How can ISG help you in your transformation journey?
Assess
We help you assess the current state of your digital engineering initiatives and how you measure against ISG‘s industry benchmarks and best practices. Based on your current state, ISG works with you to develop a strategy that generates sustainable value.
Define
ISG guides the development of your transformation roadmap, with key element including data and platform, relevant technologies, organizational, and partnership aspects. The ISG Roadmap simplifies the complexity of implementing digital initiatives.
Source & Transform
ISG advises you on your sourcing strategy, guides you in your make/buy/partner decisions and potential sourcing scenarios so that you can effectively implement the roadmap. We support the onboarding of a best-in-class ecosystem which offers flexibility and enables agile contracting to scale and sustain the initiatives. ISG works with you to define the right key performance indicators (KPIs) and governance mechanisms to monitor and track value.
We work with you to shape the market
Assess
ISG assesses your existing portfolio and market relevance to identify gaps and opportunities for improvements.
Analyze
We help you identify whitespaces and redefine your reference portfolio for chosen industry segments and work toward a targeted traction.
Go to Market
ISG's "market making" services help you reshape your go-to-market strategies. This includes:
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Deal shaping and market shaping support, such as for responding to the market via RFPs
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Ecosystem partnership recommendations
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Sales strategy and sales enablement support.
Featured Insights
Client Stories
Meet Our Team
Dr. Dorotea Baljević
Director, EMEA Lead - AI Advisory
Dr. Dorotea Baljević
Dorotea Baljević is a Director within the AI Acceleration Unit, enabling clients in their business, AI and data transformations while delivering value across the entire ecosystem.
Dorotea provides support and counsel to customers in their current and future digital journeys. Particularly focusing on improving and enhancing data and AI capabilities for the decision-making ecosystem to ensure healthy organisational longevity and relevance. This includes a focus on value driven outcomes, responsible use of data and AI, and shaping authentic and right-size solutions that align to the clients current and strategic needs.
Her spectrum of experience includes innovation, green-field environments, existing transformations (including building high performing teams), governance, regulatory preparation and compliance, development of digital threads and decommissioning.
Rajeev Chatrath
Principal Consultant
Ola Chowning
Partner
Ola Chowning
Ola Chowning is thrilled to solve her clients’ complex business problems with technology – truly. Whether it’s time to dramatically change your entire business model or respond to rising competitive pressures, she takes what could be a daunting process to align technology strategy to business outcomes and molds it into an exciting journey, ultimately helping you transform your business and better connect with your customers.
Matteo Gallina
Digital Engineering Solutions Lead Americas
Matteo Gallina
As ISG’s Digital Engineering Solutions Lead Americas Matteo brings his 20+ years of experience in leading engagements both in the technical, business and financial areas. Thanks to his extensive experience both as Consultant and as a former Client, he offers ISG clients a comprehensive view of the challenges clients are facing and best way to address them.
Ryan Hamze
Director
Ryan Hamze
Ryan Hamze is a Director in the Smart Manufacturing advisory group under the Americas Consulting. He is a seasoned thought leader and delivers strategic roadmaps to clients across different industries, advising on advanced technological trends, enterprise architecture and digital transformation strategies. Recognized as an industry thought leader in Smart Manufacturing and Generative AI, he is certified as an ISG Digital & AI Fellow and one of ISG’s prestigious Chairmans Club Award winners. He also conducts emerging tech research and speaks publicly on topics such as digital threads, dark factories and the evolving role of AI in Industry 5.0.
Throughout Ryan’s enterprise IT leadership experience, he has helped organizations achieve double-digit cost reductions and operational efficiencies, leading full-scale digital transformations that have automated millions of dollars in production workflows. He specializes in hyper-automating processes using both legacy enterprise and emerging technologies, focuses largely on reducing operations downtime and similar cost savings efforts.
David Lewis
Partner, Cost Optimization Lead
David Lewis
David Lewis is a seasoned technology research and advisory executive with significant experience helping clients navigate turbulent market conditions and achieve significant and sustainable cost reduction across Technology and Business Operations functions. He works across all industries helping enterprises develop and execute integrated holistic cost optimization strategies that are actionable. His cost optimization work is supported by ISG’s market leading data and delivered rapidly in a self-funding fashion. David has worked with Fortune 1000 companies across industries on large scale transformational initiatives and digital and disruptive technology programs. He has also negotiated and managed sourcing engagements valued in excess of $10B across IT and business process functions. David has a strong track record of developing and maintaining C-suite relationships.
John Lytle
Director, Industrial Manufacturing Lead
John Lytle
John has 40+ years of providing global enterprises with practical, yet strategic vision to drive meaningful change through complex programs, which extend business value through the effective use of today’s exploding Digital capabilities. John is a senior leader for many multinational enterprises in Capital Goods manufacturing. John leads the North American Industrial Manufacturing segment for ISG and is regarded as a global thought leader, regularly advising on emerging technologies and operating model changes to drive innovation.