Digital Innovation and Digital Transformation

Syllabus

Thematic definition of exercises: 1. Digital business and changing the business world through information technology. Digital innovation versus digitalisation. Examples of potential innovations and changes in business models. Business models as a tool for business model innovation. 2. Digital ecosystem. Technological developments leading to digital innovation. Selected technological trends affecting business models. 3. Internet of Things (IoT) - IoT technology, IoT components, IoT and IIoT application areas, IoT solutions for monitoring manufacturing equipment, IoT concept of product quality control based on condition monitoring, IoT concept of industrial asset inspection, predictive maintenance and condition monitoring of manufacturing equipment, IoT and IIoT requirements, IoT benefits to the enterprise, and barriers to IoT and IIoT implementation. 4. Ambient Intelligence - Ambient intelligence, intelligent pervasive technologies, background of AmI, areas of interest of AmI, characteristics and elements of AmI, AmI plaftorms, AmI scenarios, achieved effects of integrating innovative technologies into business processes, barriers to integrating innovative technologies, and building AmI. Creating an ambient ecosystem of the enterprise. 5. Blockchain - distributed decentralized database, blockchain principle, public and private blockchain, transactions, mining companies, decentralization, cryptography, blockchain application areas, blockchain security, risks and benefits of blockchain, digital currencies - platforms, properties, acquisition, payment and sale of cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency regulation, legislation and cryptocurrency. 6. Additive manufacturing - additive technologies, benefits and risks of additive manufacturing for the enterprise, types of additive technologies (FDM, SLA, SLS, PolyJet), areas of application of additive manufacturing, patents and additive manufacturing, rights and obligations of patent holders, policy impact of additive manufacturing on the industry. 7. Augmented reality technologies - definition of augmented reality, properties of augmented reality systems, Milgram's Reality-Virtuality continuum, application areas of augmented reality. 8. Strategic challenges in digital innovation. Integration of new digital technologies into business processes - case study, project on the use of IoT in predictive maintenance of production. Baseline analysis, requirements, enterprise resource analysis, data analysis, system architecture, technology implementation. 9. Digital innovation, perspectives on digitalization, strategic challenges of digital innovation and transformation, harnessing the value of digitalization - untapped opportunities, digital platforms. 10. Digital transformation. Digital transformation strategy. Stakeholders and their role in the development of digital transformation strategy and in the transformation process itself. Phases and stages of digital transformation. 11. Applying digital transformation frameworks and data-driven decision making. Principles of digital business strategy. Elements of digital transformation according to MIT Sloan. Cognitive framework for digital transformation. 12. The digital transformation maturity model. Critical factors and reasons for failure of digital transformation projects. Employee training in digital transformation. 13. Challenges that a traditional company may face on the path to digital transformation. Presentation of a comprehensive digital transformation project (plan) of the selected company.