Digital Transformation Understanding Business Goals, Risks, Processes, and Decisions

Abstract

The world is more unpredictable than ever. Digital transformation, which in principle affects everything that surrounds us, has during the last half-century strongly contributed to this unpredictability. It has enabled a global trade that incorporates more and more people, organisations and states. It has enabled a larger international labour market than anyone could foresee. It has made possible a tremendous rationalisation of social functions and tasks. It has enabled a huge flow of information in all sectors of society. And it has enabled some sort of organisation of all of the above. Numerous human beings, for better and for worse, have had to dramatically change their lives. The ongoing digital transformation has thus created a wave of both problems and opportunities.