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Digital transformation can be defined as, “the acceleration of business activities, processes, competencies, and models to fully leverage the changes and opportunities of digital technologies and their impact in a strategic and prioritized way,” (Edmead, Mark, and IDG Contributor Network, 2016). Following the industrial revolution, digital transformation has taken shape as the current revolution and innovative process. When industry’s and businesses engage in digital transformation, they create disruption and pave the way for enhanced customer value, efficient operational processes, and innovative business models. The prospect of this thesis is to: (1) understand how digital transformation strategy helps to propel innovation for the self-driving car, (2) understand how this innovation will create value in the grand schema for digital transformation, (3) develop a GIS-based (location analytics) study to understand the market opportunity for such technology and innovation. We outline how digital transformation as a whole represents a modern form of creative destruction, that is rewarding to businesses who engage in transformation for efficiency and innovation, and addresses the implications of those that do not. We discuss how digital transformation has affected the auto industry to invest in innovating self-driving cars. Finally, we perform location analytics to develop an opportunity analysis in five big markets around the Phoenix Metropolitan area in the State of Arizona to identify the potential markets for self-driving cars. We conclude this study with a discussion on how technology strategy is transforming the world.
ContributorsReichman, Allison (Author) / Satpathy, Asish (Thesis director) / Deitrick, Stephanie (Committee member) / Department of Supply Chain Management (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2019-12
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Supply chain is changing. The focus has always been on information and how it is used to get a product to the right place at the right time. But now, there is a greater emphasis on speed. Speed in how information is transferred and how decisions are made. In the new era of Supply Chain 4.0, companies in every industry are in a race to use digital technologies to achieve this speed. These digital technologies include Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Internet of Things, and Blockchain.
The challenges that companies face when digitally transforming the supply chain can often be self-inflicted. This paper will address those challenges and provide a structured approach to a successful transformation. It will also share insight from interviews conducted with the CIO and directors of three different companies as well various studies from outside sources. The purpose is to urge business leaders to re-evaluate the way they approach digital transformation in the supply chain to close information gaps and provide value to the whole organization.
The challenges that companies face when digitally transforming the supply chain can often be self-inflicted. This paper will address those challenges and provide a structured approach to a successful transformation. It will also share insight from interviews conducted with the CIO and directors of three different companies as well various studies from outside sources. The purpose is to urge business leaders to re-evaluate the way they approach digital transformation in the supply chain to close information gaps and provide value to the whole organization.
ContributorsRamesh, Sanjana (Author) / Davila, Eddie (Thesis director) / Blackmer, Cindie (Committee member) / Department of Information Systems (Contributor, Contributor) / Department of Supply Chain Management (Contributor) / Dean, W.P. Carey School of Business (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2019-05
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As more goods and processes are digitalized and available online, supply chains began to transact digitalized goods and processes that do not involve physical distribution. This dissertation defines this type of supply chain as “digital supply chain” and aims to extend the knowledge for better management of digital supply chains. Digital goods are granularly codifiable and easily duplicatable, and digital processes are less constrained by time and distance. For these reasons, compared to conventional supply chains, digital supply chains have the following features: the delivery of goods is faster; the innovation cycle is shorter; post-sales product modification is easier; and customers switch between the providers of alternative goods more frequently and easily. Given these traits of digital supply chains, this dissertation focuses on the timing of firms’ actions and their consequences under the consideration of dynamic interactions with competitors, customers, and business environments. The dissertation consists of four chapters. Chapter 1 briefly introduces the concept and issues of digital supply chains. Chapter 2 investigates how a service provider’s failure leads to a competing firm’s responsive innovation in the innovation-driven digital service industry. Chapter 3 demonstrates the relationship between market environments and innovation cycles in the innovation-driven digital service industry. Lastly, Chapter 4 studies evolving supply chain cyber-vulnerability from the perspective of agency theory.
ContributorsJeong, Seongkyoon (Author) / Choi, Thomas T (Thesis advisor) / Oke, Adegoke A (Committee member) / Dooley, Kevin K (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2022
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This paper focuses on the path of business model digitalization and its impact on corporate performance, and empirically tests the relationship between the path of business model digitalization and corporate performance of listed companies in China.The empirical results show that: digital transformation will improve enterprise performance, the technological innovation capability of enterprises helps to improve the business performance of enterprises; the level of enterprise technological innovation has a strengthening effect on the positive impact of digitalization on enterprise performance; corporate financing constraints will weaken the positive effect of corporate digital transformation on corporate performance; the improvement of technological innovation capability is conducive to the improvement of the performance of digital transformation enterprises; technological innovation of manufacturing enterprises is difficult to have a greater impact on enterprise performance by improving production efficiency.
Based on the empirical results of this paper, in order to fully grasp the development opportunities of the digital economy, the government should take the digital transformation of enterprises as a way to help enterprises develop with high quality. At the industrial level, we should promote the digital transformation of economic industries based on the principle of differentiation. At the enterprise level, we should strengthen the financial services and R&D investment that match the financing needs of enterprises, effectively play the positive regulatory role of enterprises' technological innovation ability on the performance of enterprises' digital transformation, and effectively weaken the negative regulatory role of financing constraints on the performance of enterprises' digital transformation.
ContributorsWang, Minghui (Author) / Chen, Pei-Yu (Thesis advisor) / Jiang, Zhan (Thesis advisor) / Zheng, Zhiqiang (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2023
Description全球数字经济高速发展，信息科技时代，面对新形势、新问题，企业的数字化转型升级势在必行，为了提升企业综合竞争力，利用先进的科学技术在服务创新、产品创新、渠道创新、风险控制、精细化管理方面加强数字化水平，既是顺应时代发展的必然要求也是企业信息化发展必经的阶段。员工作为数字化技术的使用者和创造者，推动员工数字化转型成为企业发展不可缺少的重要组成部分，在当今复杂多变的商业环境中，动态多元的工作内容和特征要求员工具备更多的专业技能，结合实际的业务经验，可能更大程度上激发员工自身创造力，为企业数字化转型提供方向和建议。本文以大型物流公司——深圳市柏威国际物流有限公司为研究对象，从员工感知的角度，围绕国际物流企业数字化转型对员工绩效影响这一主题解决以下问题：从理论和企业实践的角度，分析并构建企业数字化转型对员工绩效的影响模型，发掘可能存在的调节因素；完善调查量表，编制调查问卷，对模型中的各要素进行准确刻画；利用问卷调查和结构方程模型的实证结果进行分析，检验柏威目前数字化转型水平和成效，提出合理的转型建议。
研究发现，与企业主要业务直接相关的核心员工感知的、以数字化资源和数字化能力为主要表现的企业数字化发展水平对员工绩效具有正向影响，数字化资源和数字化能力均对员工绩效有直接的影响，同时，数字化资源和数字化能力匹配程度越高，企业数字化水平越高，对员工绩效提升的影响越大；从业务实践角度出发，企业数字化对员工绩效的影响以提升包含业务洞察力和协调决策力的员工能力为中介，其中数字化与业务的匹配性能显著调节企业数字化对员工能力的影响；反映行业大环境的业务不确定性无法对企业数字化促进员工绩效起到调节作用。深圳柏威国际物流有限公司当前数字化转型进程中，企业对数字化资源的开发水平较高，但数字化能力水平不足，难以匹配数字化资源水平，数字化资源和数字化能力水平之间的差异降低了企业数字化对员工绩效的促进作用，大力提升企业数字化能力是当前阶段数字化转型的主要方向。
ContributorsWang, Chaofeng (Author) / Li, Hongmin (Thesis advisor) / Shi, Weilei (Thesis advisor) / Sun, Tianshu (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2023
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China's infrastructure investment is ushering in a new round of growth. The equipment leasing industry maintains high growth rate. H Company has accumulated close to 200,000 service projects, of which personal contracts account for about 71%, and has initially established a brand effect among small and medium-sized customers. We fully leverage the efficiency advantages of private enterprises in digital construction, iterates the system based on needs, data analysis results, feedback, and uses the high-altitude operation platform as the entry point to achieve comprehensive online operation, such as online procurement process, full equipment lifecycle management, full business process management, financial management, and realizes standardization of the entire business process. In this context, it is particularly important to conduct theoretical sublimation based on practical experience and study the impact of digital transformation on the equipment leasing industry.It has found that: 1) Obstacle factors have a significant impact on the digital investment of enterprises; 2) Obstacle factors have a significant impact on the digital achievements of enterprises; 3) Enterprises generally realize that increasing digital investment can significantly enhance their digitalization; 4) The digital investment of enterprises has a significant impact on their leading business indicators, which indicates that different enterprises have relatively high plans; 5) The relationship between digital investment and business revenue growth is positively correlated, indicating that the higher the investment in digital transformation, the higher the growth rate of revenue. However, this correlation is not significant; 6) The digital investment of enterprises significantly promotes the improvement of operational efficiency. In the equipment leasing industry, practitioners generally recognize that increasing digital investment can promote the improvement of operational efficiency; 7) The more achievements of digital transformation in enterprises, the more significant the efficiency improvement, and this correlation is very obvious. When a company can truly produce good digital results, the promotion of operational efficiency is very obvious, which motivates business managers to work hard to produce excellent digital results in the current difficult situation.
ContributorsPan, Qian (Author) / Shao, Benjamin (Thesis advisor) / Jiang, Zhan (Thesis advisor) / Zheng, Zhiqiang (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2024