Exam 1 Flashcards
What is digitalization
A technological development of different types of digital innovation
Name two main aspects of BD tech in regards to the relationship between business and inventors
Novel digital technologies - push models
Business requirement - pull models
Name 3 major areas of digital technologies
Software, hardware, networds
Name the SMAC technologies and what they do
Social media - outreach and customer interactment. Marketing platform and such
Mobile technologies - new ways to shop and work. Digital stores with the store being “mobile” online.
Analytics of data - big data. Understanding trends and draw conclusions from massive data banks.
Cloud computing - cloud service and sharing informations. Its not required to use cloud based information, services or “products”
What are the 3 processes of business value creation
Cost advantages
Revenue growth
Eco systems
Name the three essential digital innovation methods.
Product innovation - enhance already existing services or products.
Process innovation - The manufacturing process, chat bots, paperless contrats, 3D printing.
Explain:
Diffusion of digital innovation
Refers to the process in which an innovation is dopted by organizations, society and individual. How high the degree of digitzation the country has shows how well integrated it is in the digitized economy.
Diffusion of digital innovation theory
Roger adaptation of innovation
Innovators - tech guys innovating
Early adopters - the amateur tech guys
Early Majority - the major population is starting to adopt and need guidence
Late majority - Not interested in technology but do it out of neccecity
Laggards - Not at all interested in changes and have a negative attitude to technology
Drivers of digitalization
External pressures:
Shareholders and their profits
Customers need for convinience
Government and their pressure for innovation
Internal :
Employes wanting to be up to date
Management - want to manage more easily
Name some challenges in BD
Lack of sufficient budge
Complexity of its structure
Need to replace the legacy system
Lack of staff with correct skill set
Explain the Digital transformation process
Use of digitalization - implement the smac model and see what fits
Analyze disruptions - see what competitiors are currently up to
Strategic response - Building on the usage of digitalization you chose to implement. Improve and strategize
Changes in value creation - look for a need in structural, organizational or manufacturing changes
Name parts of the Digital tranformation strategy
Exploitative - follow the competition and follow their digitalization steps
Exploratory - be the inventor ahead of the competition
Ambidextrous - be both
Name 3 essential elements of digital transformation
- A digital strategy - definies smac inspired value adding innovations.
Use customer engagement, see what the customer needs and answer their demands with SMAC.
Digitize the solution *
All this will create loyalty from the customer - An operational backbone.
Facilitate operational excellence - Digital service platforms.
Process that enables rapid innovation and responsiveness. Websites or platforms with interactive outlays that make it easy to gather information about customer needs.
Describe the push and pull method
A novel digital technology creates a push which gets pulled by business requirement add on new requirements leading to a new push
Name benefits of digital a digital service platforms
Facilitaties experimentations, rapid development , digital innovation booms
Name benefits of operational backbone
Ensure efficiency
Scalability
Reliability
Quality
Predictability
Whats a digital platform
Refers to many to many systems (M2M). A system that intermediate between participants helping them to connect and exchange somethign of value.