McKinsey & Company has observed that while companies are rushing headlong to become more digital, executives have very diverse perspectives as what “going digital” really means.5 These perspectives range from a focus on technology, to digital customer engagement, to new digital business models and more. The lack of clarity often results in piecemeal initiatives, missed opportunities and false s...

As design has become critical strategic activity, design routines have been transformed through constant digitalization. Yet, we know little about whether such increased digital intensity influences routine variation and in which direction. This paper focuses on the effects of increasing digitalization on the design routine’s configural variety. We define and operationalize a new endogenous con...

Digitalization is a concept to encompass the fastest growing trend for societal development of modern times. Digitalization happens everywhere, in schools, in business, in health care and in our private life. The digitalization gives also opportunities for political decisions and policy making to support turning our society into a modern and efficient society. Research and research funding orga...

The impact of digitalization on the average glandular doses in 49 mammographic units participating in the Flemish Breast Cancer Screening Program was studied. Screen-film was changed to direct digital radiography and computed radiography in 24 and 25 departments respectively. Average glandular doses were calculated before and after digitalization for different PMMAphantom thicknesses and for gr...

The increasing digitalization of business and society leads to drastic changes within enterprises. Therefore, they are confronted with enormous challenges when dealing with digitalization topics. One of these challenges represents the complex field of Industry 4.0/the Industrial Internet (as part of the digitalization), especially the realistic classification of the company’s own IT infrastruct...

As digitalization is rewriting the rules of competition, companies need to adapt to external changes or they will be left behind. Indeed, digitalization bears a lot of economic potential and is undoubted to have tremendous impacts on the economy. Many companies already launched digital initiatives. However, most of them lack an understanding of the value digitalization can create. They often ne...

Background. The sports industry has been transformed through digitalization processes. One traditional area of sports marketing strategy that has changed significantly is sponsorship. Objectives. To reveal how digitalization has impacted sports sponsorship strategies according to the findings of academic articles in leading sports management journals. In light of the dramatic transformation of...

Within the article, the impact of modern digitalization processes on changing household credit behavior is considered. Much attention is paid to defining the essence of digitalization and exploring the features of its impact on the financial services market. Accordingly, the content of household credit behavior and its individual models are examined. This behavior is proposed to be considered a...

Analysis of postmortem blood samples from patients previously on maintenance digoxin therapy suggests that the results are of value in assessing the degree of digitalization at the time of death. Control cases gave results within the normal therapeutic range wheras of six cases in which digoxin was suspected of being implicated in the death five had 'serum' digoxin levels above the therapeutic ...

Film, video, and TV have become a predominant medium, but most audiovisual (AV) material being part of our cultural heritage is kept in archives without the possibility of appropriate access for the public. Although digitalization of AV objects in conjunction with AV analysis is making progress, content-based retrieval remains difficult because of the so called semantic gap. The Mediaglobe proj...