Digital transformation is often described as moving from selling and owning objects to brokering and selling services in a continuous, living network where ownership is less important. It involves adopting cloud-based software and services, scaling resources up and down instantly to follow demand, and aligning products and their functions into user-oriented processes. Data collection and analysis occurs in real-time at an unprecedented scale, while algorithms and artificial intelligence play a greater role in decision making.

1. Before exploring what digital transformation brings to supply chain,
lets recap on digital transformation in general terms
”Digital transformation in a few one-liners”
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Vision Established
”Digital transformation” is
well in the making but still
being defined. There is no
”One” definition
”Metaspace”

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Not owning
Moving into clouds and
services
Moving from hierarchical
to spherical
Being process oriented
Scalable
Consumer oriented,
interactive, assisted,
device independent,
virtual, augmented
Immediate
Rich in data
Accessible
Adopting algorithms
Shared, multi tenant and
into community learning,
Continuously evolving
Digital transformation is often described as….
Listening to sensors AutonomousAdopting robots

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Not owning
Digital transformation moves from selling and owning objects to
brokering and selling of service in a continuous, living network.
Digital transformation means entering into networks for sharing of resources.
Ownership is still relevant, someone has to own objects but not in focus of the user who consume service.
Digital transformation empties bookshelves, empties garages and empties server rooms while making reading, driving
and computing more available than ever.
Owning resources will not ensure a threshold towards entry of new competition.

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Software and services powering Digital transformation are more likely to run in cloud models, private or
public than in traditional on premise/host models. Digital transformation means adopting services
Moring into clouds and
services

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Scalable
Digital scales up and down follow demand ”almost instantly”. No matter if SW service or physical object, digital
transformation brings (and requires) significantly faster and more cost efficient scaling. ”Digital” grows and shrinks in
much faster cycles than practices in traditional business models and traditional IT delivery models. Digital
Transformation takes ”just in time” to its extreme.

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Digital transformation drives, as well as requires, organizational and cultural transformation.
Straight, fast communication in spherical organizations where everyone has acces to information
simultaneosly beats the slow moving vertical-horizontal-vertical information flow in traditional hierarchies.
Moving from hierarchical
to spherical

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Digital transformation means aligning objects and their function into processes as prepacked services.
Digital neither sells o buys individual objects. Digital sells and buys processes.
Being process oriented

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Consumer oriented, User
interaction, assisted,
device independent,
virtual, augmented
Digital adopts new user interfaces. Digital reaches the consumer on the consumers conditions.
Digital serves and assists.
Digital is easy.

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Immediate
Digital transformation means entering into a state where a significantly higher portion of choices &
decisions are immediate. Updates are immediate. ”New” is an every day thing.
Information is available for use without delay.
”AI” processes information in real-time, eliminating traditional delays in decisions.
Every situation is configured on the fly.
Neither seller or buyer has the luxury of time. Time is expensive Time is short. Attention is short-lived.

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Rich in data
Digital transformation means collecting, holding and analyzing more data faster than ever before.
….In a smarter way than ever before.
Digital process data, analyzes it and acts on it in a scale and at speed never seen before.
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Digital transformation evolves hand in hand with (IOT) sensors.
Listening to sensors

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Accessible
Digital transformation means moving information and organisation into a state of being accessible
everywhere, from everywhere, all the time.
Digital transformation challenges the geographically defined state and organisational hierarchy
as we know it today.

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Digital transformation runs off algorithms. Smart and learning algorithms. Some call it artificial intelligence,
”AI”.
Digital transformation means accepting and cashing in on the opportunities of machines ”thinking”, faster
and ”smarter” than humans.
Adopting algorithms

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Digital reuses and shares, digital loves multitenant.
Digital transformation means solving task together both as individuals and as organizations.
Digital shares across communities, both within organizations and across their borders.
Digital transformation means openness to grow smarter together.
There is no single winner taking it all.
Ecosystems requires a new way of defining ”competitive advantage”.
Shared, multi tenant and
into community learning,

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Digital transformation has not found all of it´s form and direction yet. Digital transformation means sensing,
analyzing and catching opportunities as they are revealed. Digital is still learning and continues to learn.
Continuously evolving

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Digital transformation increases ability to sense, process data and communicate.
To some extent that leads to centralization but generally, digital transformation will lead to more
autonomous and distributed decision making, both by people and by machines.
Autonomous

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Digital transformation accelerates evolution of both HW robots and SW robots.
Robot-cobot-bot
Adopting robots