Digitization can now be found everywhere and is spreading like wildfire. I am therefore now writing a whole series of articles on the subject of digitization. My motivation behind this is that digitization means something different for every industry and type of company and I want to work out these differences. An illustration of the differences in different industries can be found in the following figure. In this section I would like to go into the actual core of this article and illustrate digitization in the automotive industry. Industry characteristics In the automotive industry, the focus is clearly on the production of vehicles. IT, like agility, played in the background for a long time because the focus was more on production and lean principles. At the same time, mechanical and design-related innovations in automobiles have long been leading. Nonetheless, in the last few decades the industry has increasingly developed into…

Too often do you read articles that generally report on digitization and consider certain aspects to be absolutely important? However, you think to yourself: “This does not apply to my industry or it does not work in my company”. Home office alone has hardly lost any meaning in production and Industry 4.0 in knowledge work. So not all knowledge can be transferred without restrictions to every branch and type of company! In order to fill this gap, I analyzed more than 4000 literature sources on digitization and broken them down into the individual types of companies and industries. In doing so, I took 5 major trends in digitization and prepared them for industries and types of company. The status is April 2019. After completion, I would like to deepen the results in the course of 2019 with expert interviews from the respective industries. The digitization trend radar will therefore be…