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As we look at the world around us, it certainly seems that every aspect of it is being digitalized.

While I am fully aware of the immense positive impact of digitalization, I find myself often wondering if we, as customers, fully understand the implications of the solutions and technologies we so readily adopt and use as part of our daily lives:

But are we aware of such a risk when we voluntarily share our images on social media? And can we take back or delete our digital history when we need to?

However, would we still share our DNA if we knew that it can be weaponized against us? A simple attack would be to target us with food allergies that the tests reveal? More alarmingly, DNA testing is still at its infancy, and nobody fully comprehends the extent of the sensitive information these companies will be able to deduce from it in the future.

The above examples, and many more, clearly show the complexity of assessing the implications of digitalization for both consumers and business entities.

Indeed, not everything that can be digitized, should be digitized...until we reasonably comprehend its societal impacts on the individuals’ privacy and safety.

Within my own industry, Fintech, I can’t help but wonder how such complexity can be efficiently captured and evaluated. This question is very timely for the banking sector, since it is undergoing radical changes due to the advent of PSD2 which is opening customers’ data to various third-party entities. Authentication , for instance, is an important piece of this puzzle, and it is imperative that we get it right.

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In supply chain management much work has been put into manufacturing philosophies such as Lean, TQM, QRM, six sigma ect. But as digitalization is given more and more attention, which encompass terms like internet of things, industry 4.0, business analytics, predictive analytics and business intelligence; there is a need for conceptualizing these and to develop management tools and principles that aids practitioners to become successful in the big data journey. Big data is a highly emerging research field and therefore I wonder if big data is going to evolve as a philosophy for digitalization and data utilization, and thereby be the digital counterpart to the manufacturing philosophies?

I am interested in market research aspects that focus on social differences. How can the opportunities created by ubiquituous digitalization also be made available to disadvantaged target groups?

I am currently researching the impacts of components of digital transformation and Industry 4.0 (optimization, automation, digitalization) on the fairly old field of mechanical engineering.

Has mechanical engineering been able to keep up? Are mechanical engineers adapting - taking programming courses/getting involved in something that was once for electrical engineers?

Thank you in advance for any input.

Monica

Dear fellows,

I'm looking for scientific studies and evidence supporting or disproving that digitalization (the investment in and implementation of advanced information technology) is improving organizational perfomance.

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