Nicolas Babin disruptive week about Digital Transformation – October 19th 2020

I am regularly asked to summarize my many posts. I thought it would be a good idea to publish on this blog, every Monday, some of the most relevant articles that I have already shared with you on my social networks.
Today I will share some of the most relevant articles about Digital Transformation and in what form you can find it in today’s life. I will also comment on the articles.

On Forbes.com: https://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2020/10/09/leading-vodka-manufacturer-celebrates-a-winning-digital-transformation/

Leading Vodka Manufacturer Celebrates A Winning Digital Transformation. Alcohol Siberian Group is a Moscow based spirits manufacturer that produces vodkas, liquors, and bitters. While the company’s business was reaching for the stars, its IT system landscape had reached its limits and hindered the company’s aggressive growth goals. Distilling a digital transformation to keeping up with the pace of success. The next step was obvious – the company required a digital transformation. Using agile methodologies, Alcohol Siberian Group implemented and has gone live with SAP Integrated Business Planning solutions, such as Response and Supply Planning, SAP Extended Warehouse Management, and SAP S/4HANA Cloud. These solutions operate as key enablers to drive the company’s digital transformation.

On Industryweek.com: https://www.industryweek.com/technology-and-iiot/article/21144132/rockwell-automation-and-microsoft-addressing-industrial-digital-transformation-challenges-together

Rockwell Automation and Microsoft Addressing Industrial Digital Transformation Challenges Together. Partnership aims to empower manufacturers with agility, intelligence and scale to deliver digital transformation initiatives—from the cloud to the edge.

On Devops.com: https://devops.com/ibm-devops-virtual-summit/

Accelerate Your Digital Transformation with IBM. At the IBM DevOps Virtual Summit, attendees will learn how to keep their applications running smoothly with automation and data-driven solutions that can reduce mean time to resolution and explore IBM solutions to help innovate hybrid environments, disrupt cloud native development and transform existing mainframe infrastructures. The free virtual event will take place on Oct. 29 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. ET.

On Siliconangle.com: https://siliconangle.com/2020/10/09/digital-transformation-requires-skilled-network-automation-developers-post-covid-ciscodevnet/

Digital transformation requires skilled network automation developers during and post-COVID. As the global pandemic accelerated the digital transformation across different businesses, a great deal of autamation had to take place to ease the pressure on IT teams. But this movement does not seem transitory. After the initial panic of needing to make changes overnight to have operations running online and work done remotely, companies are now reassessing their strategies and further increasing automation and transformation.

On Sdcexc.com: https://www.sdcexec.com/software-technology/article/21195090/supply-chain-digital-transformation-requires-a-bold-new-approach

Supply Chain Digital Transformation Requires a Bold New Approach. One way companies can ensure that the business does not come to a screeching halt when suppliers shut down or are unable to transport materials for a variety of reasons is by broadening the supplier base. Supply chain digital transformation takes a bold approach. The key to addressing these supply chain challenges now and into the future lies in digital transformation. Yet, many companies have started to rest on their laurels, thinking that software upgrades or some level of application modernization make them digitally-driven companies, but real change comes from true digital transformation, the type that connects the entire supply chain, boldly disrupts ways of working and changes business outcomes.

On Cyprusmail.com: https://cyprus-mail.com/2020/10/10/pandemic-has-highlighted-cyprus-need-for-digital-transformation/

The pandemic highlighted the country’s need for digital transformation, especially in key areas such as justice, the deputy minister for research, innovation and digital policy Kyriakos Kokkinos said on Friday at the official launch of the e-justice project. Every country should be thinking about their digital transformation. This is not only about an individual or a company, countries can transform too.

On Entrepreneur.com: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/357527

The spiral of economic deterioration caused by the coronavirus is accompanied by the acceleration curve of digital transformation. The connectivity enabled by computers and mobile devices has made the reinvention of business models inevitable. Have a read at this great article.

On Timeshighereducation: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/hub/coursera/p/how-turkeys-universities-are-mastering-digital-transformation

A roundtable of senior leaders discussed best practice for addressing challenges and opportunities related to teaching, assessment and internationalism. As well as access, the noted challenges to digital transformation also included scaling digital courses, retraining staff, digital assessment and data security.