Abstract
The digital transformation is gaining momentum. During February 2019, Google has received twenty-five times as many search requests for "digital transformation" as five years earlier. This inflationary upsurge is accompanied by an ever-increasing blurring of the context the term is supposed to address as well as of the definition itself. In this paper, we tackle that problem from a manufacturing point of view by conducting a systematic literature review. As a result, we present an industry-tailored three-layer definition for the phenomenon. Furthermore, we identify 30 technological concepts that are considered as digital transformation-related in that context. Divided into eleven clusters, we embed them into a framework outlining the digital transformation in the manufacturing environment.
Recommended Citation
Demlehner, Quirin and Laumer, Sven, "Setting the Hook – The Digital Transformation from a Manufacturing Point of View and what it Really Means" (2019). AMCIS 2019 Proceedings. 2.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2019/meta_research_is/meta_research_is/2
Setting the Hook – The Digital Transformation from a Manufacturing Point of View and what it Really Means
The digital transformation is gaining momentum. During February 2019, Google has received twenty-five times as many search requests for "digital transformation" as five years earlier. This inflationary upsurge is accompanied by an ever-increasing blurring of the context the term is supposed to address as well as of the definition itself. In this paper, we tackle that problem from a manufacturing point of view by conducting a systematic literature review. As a result, we present an industry-tailored three-layer definition for the phenomenon. Furthermore, we identify 30 technological concepts that are considered as digital transformation-related in that context. Divided into eleven clusters, we embed them into a framework outlining the digital transformation in the manufacturing environment.