Preparedness of companies for digital transformation and creating a competitive advantage in the age of Industry 4.0

Adamik, Anna; Nowicki, Michał

doi:10.2478/picbe-2018-0003

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“…The conducted analyses showed that the research of the above problems is generally quite universal and well known. However, the fact that they are usually conducted without mutual coincidence taken into account should be noted, i.e., the importance of CSR is investigated separately (i.e., [54,55,60,62,137,169]), the problems of cooperation and networking separately (i.e., [13,15,16,18]), aspects of co-creation separately (i.e., [13,27,28,47,137]), paradoxes and/or pathologies separately (i.e., [35,37,39,73,112]), or separately the problems of the importance, requirements, positive sides and threats of Industry 4.0 (i.e., [9,63,89,91,183]. Therefore, the base, developed for the needs of this article, aggregating "the paradoxes and areas of potential pathologies of co-creation in the age of Industry 4.0", may be considered a certain novelty, contributing to management studies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Some of them are less and some of them are more accurate [85][86][87], which causes disorientation as to where an organization's strategic actions should be directed [88]. The decision is not made easier due to the increasing dynamics of changes and requirements from the market environment, e.g., the age of Industry 4.0 that has been in place for some time now [89]. The revolution that accompanies it strengthens the unparalleled, "unprecedented fusion" between digital, physical, and biological entities, which is the aim for social, economic, and environmental progress [90,91].…”

Section: The Age Of Industry 40 As a Context Of Building A Competitimentioning

confidence: 99%

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Pathologies and Paradoxes of Co-Creation: A Contribution to the Discussion about Corporate Social Responsibility in Building a Competitive Advantage in the Age of Industry 4.0

Adamik

Nowicki

2019

Sustainability

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Research problem: Revolution Industry 4.0. forces companies to face specific competence-related, technological, organizational and even ethical challenges. The use of innovative “tools” associated with that revolution not only brings new technological challenges, opportunities to build new competitive advantages, new areas of activity, and new types of business benefits but also doubts, questions, or even pathologies and paradoxes. Sometimes, entities that do not fully understand the essence of the new concepts, methods, or techniques use them incorrectly or abuse them for private goals and expose themselves to criticism—sometimes even social condemnation. These are examples of the lack of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of these organizations. This situation also has reached co-creation. In theory, it is a very positive concept, aimed at building competitiveness, or various types of competitive advantages of companies by creating value for clients with their participation. In economic practice, unfortunately, it is not always successful. Purpose: The main purpose of this paper is to identify and characterize the key paradoxes and areas of potential pathologies of creating competitive advantage based on co-creation without CSR in the case of companies operating in the age of Industry 4.0. Originality/value of the paper: A theoretical study based on the extensive literature review describing paradoxes, ethical and CSR problems of co-creation in organizations creating competitive advantage in the age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and a qualitative methodology of research. This study attempts to systematize paradoxes of co-creation and the areas and industries in which the related pathologies of co-creation occur particularly often and distinctively in economic practice. The empirical studies were conducted as a review of case studies of companies that use the concept of co-creation in an irregular way (paradoxical or with pathologies). This study identified and characterized the key 31 paradoxes and pathologies of creating competitive advantage based on co-creation in the case of 14 companies operating in the age of Industry 4.0. Implications: The identification of main dilemmas, paradoxes and pathologies of co-creation; signaling the role of governance and CSR in processes of the valuable use of co-creation in the age of Industry 4.0. Based on the observations described in the paper, it is worth recommending that when becoming involved in co-creation, one should observe ethical standards and assumptions of CSR, and require the same from partners and other parties involved. Otherwise, the risk is that instead of co-creation, the result achieved will be exactly the opposite to that intended, which is co-destruction, and condemnation instead of glory. This is why it is worth considering the paradoxes that are key to co-creation and approaching solutions in a conscious way.

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Section: The Age Of Industry 40 As a Context Of Building A Competitimentioning

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Pathologies and Paradoxes of Co-Creation: A Contribution to the Discussion about Corporate Social Responsibility in Building a Competitive Advantage in the Age of Industry 4.0

Adamik

Nowicki

2019

Sustainability

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“…Kagermarin et al [2] refer to the digitization of production and describe the vision of an intelligent factory, characterized by the networking of all production processes in order to operate interactively and to increase productivity and efficiency in the use of resources. Companies are facing increasing competition in their markets, leading managers to constantly seek new methods, approaches, and strategies to improve operational flexibility, efficiency, innovation, and responsiveness through an accurate control supported by 4.0 technologies [3,4]. The use of digital approaches anticipates the development and control of intelligent production systems by contributing, for example, to the control of production flow's behavior.…”

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Business Models for Distributed-Simulation Orchestration and Risk Management

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Nowadays, industries are implementing heterogeneous systems from different domains, backgrounds, and operating systems. Manufacturing systems are becoming more and more complex, which forces engineers to manage the complexity in several aspects. Technical complexities bring interoperability, risk management, and hazards issues that must be taken into consideration, from the business model design to the technical implementation. To solve the complexities and the incompatibilities between heterogeneous components, several distributed and cosimulation standards and tools can be used for data exchange and interconnection. High-level architecture (HLA) and functional mockup interface (FMI) are the main international standards used for distributed and cosimulation. HLA is mainly used in academic and defense domains while FMI is mostly used in industry. In this article, we propose an HLA/FMI implementation with a connection to an external business process-modeling tool called Papyrus. Papyrus is configured as a master federate that orchestrates the subsimulations based on the above standards. The developed framework is integrated with external heterogeneous components through an FMI interface. This framework is developed with the aim of bringing interoperability to a system used in a power generation company.

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“…A nation's competitiveness [9] is measured by the quality of its Human Resources and job competency. One of the efforts made at increasing these in Vocational High School was by giving competency certificate to the graduates through a professional certification institution [2].…”

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A Policy Analysis of Professional Certification for the Vocational High School Graduates: The Case Study

Nuphanudin¹,

Sugiarto²,

Supadi³

2019

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Technology and Educational Science

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The aim of this research was to analyze the policy implementation of professional certification for vocational high school graduates in the Professional Certification Institution of State Vocational High School (SMK Negeri) 7 Bandung. This was conducted through the use of a qualitative method by applying the Context, Input, Process, Product (CIPP) model. Primary data was obtained through interview and observation, while secondary data were taken from official documents. The analysis conducted revealed that 1) the purpose of certification is welldefined, well-understood, and well-operated; 2) planning and the allocation of resources were classified accordingly; 3) the process of certification followed the guidelines of Certification Authority; 4) in work, competency should be preserved, not only once, but for a long time. The certification was quite effective in achieving the goals of ensuring and preserving competencies gained from either formal or informal learning process, internship or work experience.

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Preparedness of companies for digital transformation and creating a competitive advantage in the age of Industry 4.0

Cited by 45 publications

References 17 publications

Pathologies and Paradoxes of Co-Creation: A Contribution to the Discussion about Corporate Social Responsibility in Building a Competitive Advantage in the Age of Industry 4.0

Pathologies and Paradoxes of Co-Creation: A Contribution to the Discussion about Corporate Social Responsibility in Building a Competitive Advantage in the Age of Industry 4.0

Business Models for Distributed-Simulation Orchestration and Risk Management

A Policy Analysis of Professional Certification for the Vocational High School Graduates: The Case Study

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