Digitalization

Part I: Digital Drivers.- Unchartered Territories: Treat Your Innovation as a Disaster.- Future-Oriented Technology Analysis: A Classification Framework.- The Role of Digital Technologies in Business Model Transition Toward Circular Economy in the Building Industry.- The Impact of the Novel Coronavirus Outbreak on the Development of Digital Economy in Commodity Countries.- Part II: Digital Maturity.- Digital Maturity Models: A Systematic Literature Review.- An Approach for a Digital Maturity Model for SMEs Based on Their Requirements.- Developing Strategies for Digital Transformation in SMEs with Maturity Models.- Part III: Digital Strategy.- Same Same, But Different: An Exploration of Alternative Business Model Disruptions Across German Industries.- Productivity Paradox in Digital Innovation for SMEs.- Five Topics for Which Industry Needs Innovation Managers.- Connecting the Corporate Brain: How Digital Platforms Accelerate Digital Transformation and Continuous Cultural Renewal.- Development Process for Smart Service Strategies: Grasping the Potentials of Digitalization for Servitization.- Problem Structuring to Enable Innovation in Business/IT Projects.- Part IV: Digital Transformation.- Systematic Review of the Literature on SME Digitalization: Multi-sided Pressure on Existing SMEs.- Identifying Barriers for Digital Transformation in the Public Sector.- Crisis-Driven Digital Transformation: Examining the Online University Triggered by COVID-19.- Selecting, Combining, and Cultivating Digital Ecosystems in a Digital Ecosphere.- The Pro-Poor Digitalisation Canvas: Shaping Innovation Towards SDGs 1 and 10.- Part V: Digital Implementation- Digital Needs Diversity: Innovation and Digital Leadership from a Female Managers' Perspective.- Developing Creative Leaders: Learner's Reflections on Methodology and Pedagogy.- An Integrated Approach to Digital Implementation: TOSC-Model and DPSEC-Circle.- Challenges, Lessons and Methods for

Daniel R. A. Schallmo is Professor of digital transformation and entrepreneurship at the Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences (Germany), and the Director of the university's Institute for Entrepreneurship, and member of the Institute for Digital Transformation.

Joseph Tidd is Emeritus Professor (SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit) at the University of Sussex (UK).

"The richness of the literature resources in this book provided by all authors is hugely beneficial to the audience to gain a theoretical foundation. ... Digitalisation practitioners such as management and innovation consultants and organisations would find it useful to navigate through the business models and frameworks ... . digital transformation is often bundled with innovation for many good reasons. We highly recommend readers continuously explore ways of innovation ... to identify and truly drive ideas through to implementation." (Flora Chen, Richard Head, Brendan Strijdom and Philippa Stone, Johnson Matthey Technology Review, Vol. 66 (2), 2022)