Maturity Framework Enabling Organizational Digital Readiness
Paper in proceeding, 2020

Digitalization and the use of advanced technologies for more flexible and resource efficient production processes are changing the industrial competitive
environment. However, new technologies are not seldom implemented without the whole organization being ready to fully utilize its benefits. This readiness can be expressed as organizational digital maturity. Previous studies identified that the level of digitalization is increasing, but, in many cases, due to lack of foundation, it is not aligned with the business strategy and/or supported by the organizational and technological infrastructures. There is a gap in existing models to provide practical starting-up steps to support the organizational digital readiness. A conceptual readiness framework for organizational digital readiness was tested through the analysis and reflection of four cases implemented by a Swedish manufacturing company. Findings point out that it is important to create a proper organizational foundation, a readiness, to ensure a company to evolve in digital maturity. That can
be developed based on three main stages of change management practices. The tool can be used to identify the organizational readiness and thereby the gaps and thresholds necessary to overcome. This will enable companies to utilize the technology level necessary to increase cost and resource efficiency, and hence competitiveness. In addition, dimensions and a roadmap for organizational, digital, and smart readiness is presented.

Industry 4.0

digital transformation

digitalization

maturity

Organizational readiness

Author

Carla Gonçalves Machado

Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Supply and Operations Management

Peter Almström

Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Supply and Operations Management

Anna Ericson Öberg

Volvo Group

Martin Kurdve

Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Supply and Operations Management

Sultan Y. Almashalah

Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Supply and Operations Management

Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering

Vol. 13 649-662
978-161499439-8 (ISBN)

9th Swedish Production Symposium SPS2020
Virtual, Jönköping, Sweden,

SMART PM - Sustainable Manufacturing by Automated Real-Time Performance Management

VINNOVA (2018-01583), 2018-04-20 -- 2020-12-20.

Subject Categories

Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics

Information Systemes, Social aspects

Areas of Advance

Production

DOI

10.3233/ATDE200204

ISBN

9781614994398

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3/21/2023