Digital company

Digital company is a term used in business and in the field of digitization .

Today, companies use information technology (IT) to a significant extent as part of their administrative processes (e.g. ERP systems) and networked value creation structures, in digital marketing, as an interface to customers (including order management) and suppliers (including electronic procurement, data exchange) or also to improve the company's internal collaboration between spatially distributed project teams.

Linking digital factory tools with Web 2.0 approaches can make a significant contribution to “know-how sharing” within and across companies. The impact of digital technologies on the organization is regularly not taken into account or at least underestimated. An organizational gap arises, ie information technology drives and the organization lags behind.

The degree of maturity achieved in relation to the digitization of the company and the company's processes is essential for assigning a company to the category of a digital company.

definition

A suitable definition for a digital company can therefore be as follows:

" The digital company implements its information processing within the company and across companies largely digitally and free of media breaks. It uses suitable methods and tools of Web 2.0 (e.g. social networking, wikis, blogs), as well as those of the digital factory (e.g. B. simulations, data management, knowledge management, visualizations) across all essential processes in the entire company with a high degree of maturity under holistic aspects and develops a corporate culture that is conducive to this. "

Individual evidence

↑ Westkämper, E. et al .: Methods of Digital Planning . In: Bullinger, H.-J. (Ed.): Handbook of company organization: strategies, planning, implementation . VDI-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-72136-9 , p. 515-567 .
↑ Bracht, Uwe; Geckler, Dieter; Wenzel, Sigrid: Digital Factory: Methods and Practical Examples . Springer, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-540-89038-6 , pp. 336 .
^ Trace, Günter ; Eßer, Gerd: Production Innovations: Yearbook of the inpro Innovation Academy 2011 . Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-43324-3 , pp. 128 .
↑ Wulf, M .: Web 2.0 technologies and organizational work: is the gap growing? In: Breiter, Andreas; Wind, Martin (Ed.): Information technology and its organizational gaps: Social, political and legal dimensions from the perspective of science and practice . LIT, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-11321-4 , pp. 85-100 .
↑ Quasdorff, Olaf: The Lean Factory taking into account the digital factory . In: Bracht, Uwe (ed.): Innovations in factory planning and organization . tape 36 . Shaker Verlag, Aachen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8440-4934-3 .

[1] Westkämper, E. et al .: Methods of Digital Planning . In: Bullinger, H.-J. (Ed.): Handbook of company organization: strategies, planning, implementation . VDI-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-72136-9 , p. 515-567 .

[2] Bracht, Uwe; Geckler, Dieter; Wenzel, Sigrid: Digital Factory: Methods and Practical Examples . Springer, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-540-89038-6 , pp. 336 .

[3] Trace, Günter ; Eßer, Gerd: Production Innovations: Yearbook of the inpro Innovation Academy 2011 . Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-43324-3 , pp. 128 .

[4] Wulf, M .: Web 2.0 technologies and organizational work: is the gap growing? In: Breiter, Andreas; Wind, Martin (Ed.): Information technology and its organizational gaps: Social, political and legal dimensions from the perspective of science and practice . LIT, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-11321-4 , pp. 85-100 .

[5] Quasdorff, Olaf: The Lean Factory taking into account the digital factory . In: Bracht, Uwe (ed.): Innovations in factory planning and organization . tape 36 . Shaker Verlag, Aachen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8440-4934-3 .