The Digital Scope

By Alba Contreras Rodriguez

Digital Scope is a small book with a giant content for those who are concerned about the scope of Digital Transformation.
Many leaders feel they are drowning with different alternatives, solutions, and pressures by the new technologies storm. Many feel it is so overwhelming that they may shut down, take a position of wait and see for their competitors, or where the storm carries them. Leaders and workers feel in a disjunctive of choosing to stay put with fear or having the courage of face reality.
The reader will find very important and simple explanations of the importance and benefits of embracing Digital Transformation along with the new technologies and the repercussions of ignoring them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Alba Contreras Rodriguez
• Release date: Oct 9, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463967966

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The Digital Scope

Copyright 2019 Alba Contreras Rodriguez

Published by Alba Rodriguez at Smashwords

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Table of Contents

Prologue

Chapter One - What is 4th Industrial Revolution

Chapter Two - Artificial Intelligence

Chapter Three - Learning From Failing

Chapter Four - Coalitions

Chapter Five - What Coaches Do

Chapter Six - Why Should Industries to Care About Technology 4.0

Chapter Seven - Digital Transformation. What Is The Secret?

Chapter Eight - Where and How To Begin Digital Transformation

Chapter Nine - The Future of Work is Human – Soft Skills, Soft skills

Chapter Ten - Emotional Intelligence

Chapter Eleven - Giving Human Relevance to Digital Transformation©

Chapter Twelve - The Six Keys for Digital Transformation

Chapter Thirteen - Digital Transformation 4.0

Chapter Fourteen - About Cybersecurity

Chapter Fifteen - Courage and Fear

About the Author

Prologue

The Industrial Revolution began in Britain during the mid-18th century, from the 1790s through the 1830s. The transition from an agricultural to an industrial economy started much later in the United States.

Some historians state that the real start, however of the American Industrial Revolution in the United States started in 1790 with the first Industrial mill. It was a process copied from a British company that increased the productivity with which cotton thread could be spun into yarn.

The later big change happened when the work of making cotton yarns that were mainly produced by women at home, was centralized in factories. This opens another type of transformation; The human transformation, because there was a sort of women emancipation, from being predominantly housewives to become economically independent and workers of a predominantly females industry.

Transportation was the next industry to be transformed from animals to steam-powered engines. The need for moving the larger amount of raw material to factories and delivering the products to customers incentivized the development of more efficient transportation resources like railroads and large vessels.

Industry 4.0 is the second last link of the evolution of those times industries since Industry 5.0 is already coming.

The need for new and more products created by an insatiable demand made people more innovative what required faster fashion communication systems along with new manufacturing and services technologies.

Alba Contreras is an Industrial Consultant and Certified Executive Coach with a mission of communicating the urgency of embracing Digital Transformation to as many executives as possible.

It seems that the technological storm has not been taken care seriously enough for about 60% of the business leaders. It is important that leaders and workers be aware that ignoring the reality of a new super-fast process of information makes their knowledge and skills obsolete in short period of time.

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Chapter One

What is 4th Industrial Revolution

A bit of history, by the end of the 18th century there was the first industrial revolution when mechanization, steam and water power were used by the agrarian society. The start of the 20th century saw the iconic Henry Ford assembly line with the introduction of mass production and the industrial society. In 1970, the use of electronic and computers to achieve further automation of manufacturing created an information society.

What is industry 4.0

The most common term for industry 4.0 is the fourth industrial revolution where we will see cyber physical systems such as robotics and internet of things support the super smart society.

There are multiple terms for this newest revolution – digital transformation, manufacturing 4.0, smart manufacturing, digital manufacturing, smart factory, industrial internet of things, etc.

My preferred definition is that industry 4.0 is a set of technologies that enable connectivity, transparency, and faster decision making. These technologies free up time to focus on the core competencies and value add work. These technologies are shaping the future of production, taking organizations to the next level, and providing an augmented way to do continuous improvement. Industry 4.0 is the means to take lean manufacturing to become more competent and competitive in the new era.

Industry 4.0 can impact both Process and Product e.g. autonomous vehicles. Process is the area I am more interested in as there is so much opportunity to use technology to improve processes – as long as there is a clear understanding of what those processes are so they can be effectively enabled by technology. Manufacturing operations must get on this bullet train with the willingness to experiment and collaborate.

Industry 4.0 Portfolio of Technologies

Here is a summary, in future blogs I will provide more detail and references.

Advanced Robotics: Autonomous, Collaborative Robots, Integrated Sensors & Standardized interfaces.

Additive Manufacturing: 3D printing, particularly