Digitalization: A Concept Easier to Talk about than to Understand

Pasi Hellsten, Annamaija Paunu

2020

Abstract

Many organizations have come to rely on digitalization to solve many issues. Today knowledge is an equal production factor besides the traditional ones; capital, natural resources, and work. Thus, there is an ever-growing need for getting the information in, sorted, and used. Digitalization is widely used phrase with many definitions, quite often case-specifically. We show that the existing definitions are not very precise and through two studies investigating executed digitalization initiatives we point out that the reality does not always respect earlier findings. Through the comparison we present questions to be answered in later research. However, business environments and technologies are often unique and thus not all recent issues are taken into consideration. We take business intelligence (BI) as a framework to draw a picture of organizational processes and to give context for the features to be taken into account when discussing digitalization, ie. technological side and the human oriented aspects.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hellsten P. and Paunu A. (2020). Digitalization: A Concept Easier to Talk about than to Understand. In Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2020) - Volume 3: KMIS; ISBN 978-989-758-474-9, SciTePress, pages 226-233. DOI: 10.5220/0010145302260233

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kmis20,
author={Pasi Hellsten and Annamaija Paunu},
title={Digitalization: A Concept Easier to Talk about than to Understand},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2020) - Volume 3: KMIS},
year={2020},
pages={226-233},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010145302260233},
isbn={978-989-758-474-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2020) - Volume 3: KMIS
TI - Digitalization: A Concept Easier to Talk about than to Understand
SN - 978-989-758-474-9
AU - Hellsten P.
AU - Paunu A.
PY - 2020
SP - 226
EP - 233
DO - 10.5220/0010145302260233
PB - SciTePress