Resources-Training

DTO workshops

Implementing a Digital Twin of an Organization (DTO)

These two-day workshops (delivered in 4 successive half-day sessions) are offered to assist organizations better understand the critical success factors associated with driving a “Business Process Improvement” culture in their organizations. Designed for either the manufacturing or services industry, through the use of real-world examples and an interactive “hands-on” case study, participants come away with “ready to apply” tips and techniques to enhance efficiency and costing initiatives by creating Digital Twin of an Organization (DTO) models.

recorded webinars & VIDEOS

A Blueprint for creating a Digital Twin of an Organization (55 mins)

This Digital Nova Scotia webinar walks through a proven 8-step methodology for implementing a DTO in any organization. It also provides a short overview of how Digital Twins are considered by Gartner as the next most impactful technology after AI. A variety of real-world DTO model implementations from the public sector, healthcare and manufacturing are also showcased.

Digital Twinning : Optimizing Processes through Digital Modeling (63 mins)

This Digital Nova Scotia webinar explores the growing field of Digital Twin of an Organization (DTO) and how these concepts and technology are being used to model organizational resources that impact operations management, planning, and cost/profitability analysis. Four seperate use cases of DTO are summarized.

Process Optimization using a DTO (60 mins)

This seminar presented for the Dalhousie University Industrial Engineering faculty and graduate students at explores how DTO models support multi-functional collaboration and provide new strategic, operational, and financial insights to any organization. The focus of this seminar is applying DTO in the manufacturing industry.

Creating a DTO for Manufacturing Management at Crosby Foods (65 mins)

A presentation at CPA Canada's National "The One" Conference highlighting the application of DTO modeling in the manufacturing industry including commentary by Crosby Foods on how they created and benefited from their own DTO modeling experience.

Read the Use Case

FMI Webinar - Optimizing Resources and Operational Planning by Applying Lean and ABP at Nova Scotia Crown Lending (54 mins)

Presented at the Financial Management Institute's (FMI) National "PD Week" Conference, this webinar discusses how Nova Scotia Crown Lending applied Lean VSM and Activity-Based Planning (ABP) to create a DTO to better understand workload requirements, improve business processes and manage budgets and staffing requirements.

Using DTO models to better manage the Total Cost of Quality (54 mins)

An overview on how VSM and ABP concepts can be used to create Digital Twin of an Organization (DTO) models to help identify, measure and manage the Total Cost of Quality (TCQ) in any business.

Applying DTO Technology for Contact Center Costing and Optimization (18 mins)

A short video highlights how a leading-edge DTO software, Collaborative Business Planning, can be used for improving Contact Centre operations.

Publications

Journal of Cost Management, September/October edition, Volume 25, Number 5, Copyright (2021) Thomson Reuters/Tax & Accounting

An overview on how Lean Value Stream Mapping (VSM) can be enhanced via Activity-Based Planning (ABP) concepts for better insights into resource capacity management and costing. The article describes how the Lean DMAIC approach overlaps with a well known 8-Step implementation methodology for ABP. It also describes various Lean and ABP technologies that support this vision of an integrated solution.

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