This book sheds light on cross-industry and industry-specific trends in today's digital economy. Prepared by a group of international researchers, experts and practitioners under the auspices of SAP's Digital Thought Leadership & Enablement team within SAP's Business Transformation Services (BTS) unit, the book furthermore presents relevant use cases in digital transformation and innovation. The book argues that breakthrough technologies have matured and hit scale together, enabling five defining trends: hyper-connectivity, supercomputing, cloud computing, a smarter world, and cyber security. It presents in detail how companies are now reimagining their products and services, business models and processes, showcasing how every business today is a digital business. Digitalization, defined as the process of moving to a digital business, is no longer a choice but an imperative for all businesses across all industries and regions. Taking a step toward becoming a digital enterprise is demanding and challenging. The dimensions of customer centricity, leadership and strategy, business models, including offerings (products and services), processes, structure and governance, people and skills, culture, and technology foundation can serve as orientation for digitalization. The articles in this book touch on all dimensions of this digital innovation and transformation framework and offer possible answers to some of the pressing questions that arise when practitioners seek to digitalize their business.

This book sheds light on cross-industry and industry-specific trends in today's digital economy. Prepared by a group of international researchers, experts and practitioners under the auspices of SAP's Digital Thought Leadership & Enablement team within SAP's Business Transformation Services (BTS) unit, the book furthermore presents relevant use cases in digital transformation and innovation. The book argues that breakthrough technologies have matured and hit scale together, enabling five defining trends: hyper-connectivity, supercomputing, cloud computing, a smarter world, and cyber security. It presents in detail how companies are now reimagining their products and services, business models and processes, showcasing how every business today is a digital business. Digitalization, defined as the process of moving to a digital business, is no longer a choice but an imperative for all businesses across all industries and regions. Taking a step toward becoming a digital enterprise is demanding and challenging. The dimensions of customer centricity, leadership and strategy, business models, including offerings (products and services), processes, structure and governance, people and skills, culture, and technology foundation can serve as orientation for digitalization. The articles in this book touch on all dimensions of this digital innovation and transformation framework and offer possible answers to some of the pressing questions that arise when practitioners seek to digitalize their business.

Dieses Open Access-Buch gibt eine erweiterte Einfuhrung in die Grundlagen und Charakteristika sowie auch Risiken und Chancen der digitalen Transformation. Anhand von ausfuhrlichen Fallstudien branchenfuhrender Unternehmen werden aktuelle technologische Trends sowie Auswirkungen auf die digitale Geschaftsmodellentwicklung und den Wettbewerb aus Sicht von IT-Entscheidern eroertert. Die Ergebnisse helfen Unternehmens- und Strategieberater*innen, Fach- und Fuhrungskraften aus dem Bereich IT sowie Dozierenden und Studierenden der Facher Wirtschaftsinformatik und Wirtschaftswissenschaften dabei, Technologiepotentiale abzuschatzen und fruhzeitig zukunftsweisende Technologiekompetenzen aufzubauen. Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch.