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Consolidating Academic and Practical Guidelines for Digital Transformation

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Digital transformation is of paramount importance for companies nowadays but successfully doing so proves to be a challenging task. Researchers have proposed a myriad of guidelines on how to tackle digital transformation projects, but most of these are quite general and limited work has been conducted to compile these. In this paper, we aim to consolidate the numerous guidelines into one framework and expand upon each guideline with practical examples. The preliminary framework was validated by expert questionnaires and expanded with their recommendations on how to implement these guidelines in practice. In total, we list 78 guidelines structured in three levels: abstract, general, and practical. In future work, the preliminary framework will be further improved through surveys with special attention to real-life practical examples. This work can aid researchers and practitioners dealing with digital transformation.

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Van Veldhoven, Z., Vanthienen, J. (2022). Consolidating Academic and Practical Guidelines for Digital Transformation. In: Abramowicz, W., Auer, S., Stróżyna, M. (eds) Business Information Systems Workshops. BIS 2021. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 444. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04216-4_25

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