Digital Transformation Framework: Creating Sensing, Smart, Sustainable and Social (S^4) Organisations

Developing Digitalization Strategies for SMEs: A Lightweight Architecture-based Method

“…Digital technologies such as big data and analytics, digital twins and platforms, (advanced) robotics, cloud computing, or artificial intelligence are known for being a major driver of DT [3,4,43] and for (re-)defining the value proposition [45]. However, taking such steps also requires a redesign of the software and hardware landscape as well as (digital) process optimization.…”

“…As "prescriptive statements that indicate how to do something to achieve a goal" [11, p. 1622], design principles serve as an "abstract blueprint that describe an information systems artifact" [12, p. 322]. By reflecting the results of the ADR project and by considering research from the areas of EA (e.g., [13,17]) and DT (e.g., [3]), we developed four design principles fostering the development of a lightweight, architecture-based digitalization strategy in SMEs:…”

Introduction to the Minitrack on Making Digital Transformation Real

“…With this variety comes the potential of the phrase 'digital transformation' becoming loaded with considerable surplus value ultimately diluting from what the phrase really means and what its practical implications are (Suddaby 2010). While IS research is uniquely positioned to overcome this problem and develop fresh theoretical and practical insights that inform research, policy, and practice about what specifically is needed for making digital transformation real (Bordeleau, Santa-Eulalia, and Mosconi 2021;Carroll et al n.d.;Hanelt et al 2021;Markus and Rowe 2021;Vial 2019;Wessel et al 2021), this work is really only beginning to emerge and many questions prevail. This is why Lewin's (1947) famous statement, "nothing is as practical as a good theory," calls on IS researchers to tap their potential to develop new knowledge that matters within and beyond the IS discipline and academia as a whole (Yoo, 2013).…”

Introduction to the Minitrack on Making Digital Transformation Real

“…Digital transformation (DT) has become a key concern for business managers [1,2] and IS researchers alike [3,4,5]. DT involves transformation toward a recognizably different organization enabled by leveraging digital technology to redefine value propositions [3].…”

“…Even though researchers across various disciplines, including, but not limited to, organization science [7,8] and information systems (IS) [9,10], have studied organizational transformation for decades, digital transformation is special in that digital technology changes the very fabric of contemporary organizations [11,12,13]. These changes in organizational fabric are reflected in how making digital transformation real requires requestioning assumptions about business processes [14], technology renewals [15], work practices [16], deinstitutionalization [17], redefinition of value proposition [5], to mention but a few. The importance of exploring how organizations, managers, and frontline workers cope with these changes and make digital transformation real is thus pressing.…”