What’s Digitalisation Actually About?

Home » Blog » Design » What’s Digitalisation Actually About?

Digitalisation, or digital transformation, as it is sometimes also called is an important subject matter as well as challenge for businesses today. Therefore, I find it strangely confusing that sometimes aspects are lumped together under this umbrella that are not or only tangentially related to what digitalisation actually is about.

So, here’s my – perhaps opinionated – take on what digitalisation is actually about and what it entails. In a nutshell, digitalisation comprises these aspects:

  • Rethinking and being willing to change existing processes.
  • Making data available via interfaces (APIs) in order to open up information silos.
  • Automating processes.

Processes in turn are directed sequences of interdependent, preferably repeatable and uniform steps required to accomplish a task in a value or supply chain.

Commonly, the largest potential for digitalisation is to be found where:

  • processes are either completely or partially paper-based
  • Excel spreadsheets and email are used for capturing, processing and transferring data
  • physical presence is required (or claimed to be required) for accomplishing a task
About the author: Bjoern
Independent IT consultant, entrepreneur

Mentions

  • 💬 Jess Frazelle: "For the Love of Pipes" | Björn Wilmsmann

Leave a Comment

To respond on your own website, enter the URL of your response which should contain a link to this post's permalink URL. Your response will then appear (possibly after moderation) on this page. Want to update or remove your response? Update or delete your post and re-enter your post's URL again. (Find out more about Webmentions.)