The impact of digitalisation on companies

Companies have entered the digital and virtual era, we speak of “Industry 4.0”: connected and digitalised industry. Artificial intelligence, Big Data, bio-nanotechnologies, robotics, 3D printing, Internet of Things. Some see it as an evolution, others as a real revolution.

All these technological transformations impact organisations and their ways of functioning.

Working models, organisational and business processes must be adapted (to take the changed technological environment, change in working attitudes, legal and societal framework, etc. into account).

Production and investments are subject to new challenges that must be mastered: faster and more quantitative information flows, digitalisation of documentation, management and security of information, communication and data processing.

Transparency and accessibility of information force companies to differentiate themselves by proposing innovative solutions to invent the products and services of tomorrow and satisfy increasingly demanding customers.

New jobs and competences linked to digitalization are appearing, robots are replacing humans in the production chain, but humans remain the essential factor in terms of relations and working together.

Interfaces, the fusion of technologies and the sharing economy are creating new opportunities for collaboration and new sources of income.

Today more than ever, to make a successful transition to digitalization and seize all these new opportunitiescompanies need to adapt and develop their capacity to change.