Managing unbounded digital transformation: exploring the role of tensions in a digital transformation initiative in the forestry industry

Abstract

PurposePrior research has highlighted the pervasive importance of digital technologies in business and societal settings, but their enabling role in digital transformation, and effective forms of organization to address tensions that arise during attempts to promote it, have been insufficiently explored. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to investigate how and why tensions affect clusters established to foster digital transformation.Design/methodology/approachEmpirical data were acquired through a qualitative exploratory holistic single case study, focused on the Swedish Cluster of Forest Technology. This included interviews with informants, selected by homogeneous purposive sampling, and event observation to investigate the personal perspectives of representatives of every company engaged in the cluster, followed by a thematic analysis of their comments.FindingsThe case study revealed three major tensions, between knowledge flow, collaboration and competition, but also others that were interrelated with those major tensions, related to matters such as trust and protection of intellectual property, power equality and hierarchy, and networks that must be managed in digital transformation efforts.Originality/valueThe paper extends understanding of the tensions that arise, and their management, in digital transformation processes.

Analisis Ketidaktercapaian Key Performance Indicator Departemen Engineering PT. XYZ dalam Implementasi Computerized Maintenance Managemen System

“…Aplikasi dibuat oleh sumber daya internal perusahaan, hasil kerjasama Departemen Engineering , departemen information technology, departemen produksi dan departemen management strategic development organization (Ge et al, 2022). Aplikasi computerized maintenance management system berisi informasi terkait dengan kegiatan perawatan dan perbaikan yang dilakukan oleh Departemen Engineering yang terdiri dari jadwal perawatan mesin produksi, surat perintah kerja dari departemen terkait, checklist perawatan mesin produksi, kwh meter, dan engineering strategic business plan (Koukouvinou et al, 2023).…”