Technological Spotlights of Digital Transformation

Author(s):  
Amadeo José Argüelles ◽  
Hiram David Cortés ◽  
Octavio Elias Piñal Ramirez ◽  
Oscar Alfredo Bustamante

Information management in pandemic conditions involves accelerating the adoption of the digital transformation in manufacturing and service sectors that impact the economy. The risks of maintaining a dismissive view are already visible on the labor and economic side. The chapter presents a review of information and communication technologies, associated with the drive for health-related areas, automotive manufacturing, robots, self-driven cars, and retail sales to conclude with education. In certain scenarios, it leads the reader to look at a set of solutions that address his or her position on the issues addressed in the chapter. The conditions that affect the acceptance of the digital transformation and what adverse effects cause its late inclusion are described.

2021 ◽  
Vol 250 ◽  
pp. 06001
Author(s):  
Victoria Akberdina ◽  
Ainur Osmonova

Digital transformation is an ongoing process that is driven by the recent advances in digitalization as well as the development of information and communication technologies (ICT) that penetrate all socio-economic fields of everyday life and business. In this paper, we describe the digital transformation of energy companies. We show that successful transformation is based on skills, expertise and knowledge of the employees that need to be created and maintained. In addition, we show that digital competences become a key element in building capacities that are required for the digital transformation. This is of a particular importance for the energy companies that are experiencing major changes on the path of transition toward low-carbon economy and renewable energy.


Author(s):  
Robin Schmidt

Forty years of empirical research on the use of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) in schools has repeatedly shown that ICT is by no means “wild” and “threatening”, but rather largely ineffective. Therefore, I argue that the “wildness” of ICT in schools is primarily a matter of impactful teachers’ beliefs. I analyse some elements of these beliefs and suggest that its them that need “taming”. On this basis I propose that they can be tamed by becoming closely familiar with their content and structures, by professionalising them based on research and thirdly by reframing the use of ICT in school as a question of enabling participation in a world that is changing through digital transformation.


E-Justice ◽  
2010 ◽  
pp. 98-116
Author(s):  
Agustí Cerrillo I Martínez

Administration of justice is adding information and communication technologies in its internal operations and its relations both with judicial operators and citizens in Spain. The chapter describes the Spanish institutional framework characterized by the plurality of actors with competences in the administration of justice and the lack of mechanisms of coordination among them. Then, it sets out the different applications of ICTs within administration of justice, classified into four categories: treatment of information, management of judicial files, relations between judicial operators, and decision making. The analysis of such applications focuses on Spanish administration of justice. The chapter finally shows the impact of Spanish institutional framework of justice in the development of e-justice.


Author(s):  
Malina Jordanova

Brought to life by contemporary changes of our world, e-health offers enormous possibilities. In the World Health Organization’s World Health Assembly resolution on e-health, WHO has defined e-health as the cost-effective and secure use of information and communication technologies in support of health and health-related fields, including healthcare services, health surveillance, health literature, and health education (WHO, 2005). It is impossible to have a detailed view of its potential as e-health affects the entire health sector and is a viable tool to provide routine, as well as specialized, health services. It is able to improve both the access to, and the standard of, health care. The aim of the chapter is to focus on how e-health can help in closing one gap - optimizing patient care. The examples included and references provided are ready to be introduced in practice immediately. Special attention is dedicated to cost effectiveness of e-health applications.


Author(s):  
B. Sen

The term digital governance refers to governance processes in which information and communication technologies (ICT) play a significant role. Digital governance uses ICT to induce changes in the delivery and standards of governance services and, more importantly, in the way citizens interact and participate in the governance sphere. The role played by ICT could be wide ranging: in delivery and standards of governance services, to how people access such services, and the participation of people in the governance sphere (Digital governance.org Initiative, n.d.). Digital governance is not just another facet of governance or one more interface between citizens and government. Digital governance is a whole new opportunity, creating immense possibilities between citizens and government by redefining vision and the scope of the entire gamut of relationships (Bedi, Singh, & Srivastava, 2001). Two fundamental anchors of digital governance are local knowledge communities and citizen-centric governance.


Author(s):  
Beatriz Olalla-Caballero

This chapter deals with an analysis of how information and communication technologies and knowledge management may have several synergies that might help entrepreneurship, discussing the benefits and advantages of these elements and synergies involved when considered together. There are also some essential perspectives of this issues that may help entrepreneurs to achieve their objectives and might help them to introduce their enterprises into the digital transformation that is currently impacting on the evolution of all companies. There are many points to be considered and analyzed from different points of view.


Author(s):  
Carmen De-Pablos-Heredero

Organizational changes are required for the implementation of information and communication technologies (ICT) at firms operating in the textile industry. Technologies for a new way of doing things will not provide good results if applied to an old established process. ICT allows putting into action processes in a different way, which may result in many cases, in more efficient and convenient process from the perspective of customer value generation. Textile firms highly invest in digital transformation to get new business models that constitute a challenge for traditional ways to operate. For that, they must face organisational changes. Change management implies leaving a group of structures, procedures, and behaviours and the adoption of new ones. Organizations must be able to identify potential efficient processes as a consequence of the application of new technologies. An appropriate management of more tangible aspects—equipment, financial resources—and intangible ones—people, users, and perceptions—will have impact on change management results.


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