If we throw ourselves into Wikipedia and search for digitization, we get the explanation that the term originally described a conversion from analog to digital. Simply the process of converting any type of information into ones and zeros.
A modernization of the concept of digitization
However, as the digital information has become more and more obvious and the emergence of the Internet, the importance of the concept of digitalization has changed. Digitization is the actual conversion from analog to digital, while digitalization is the process where, with the help of the digitized information and data storage, we change how we work.
Digital transformation vs. digitalization
Let’s not stay there, but we get into it a little more. Maybe you have also heard the concept of digital transformation. This concept is often given the same meaning as digitalization, but there are those who stress the importance of separating them.
Digital transformation looks different depending on the company, industry, and field of application. Often, in the concept of digital transformation, even more parts of the business are interwoven than digitizing an execution or process. For example, behavioral change, skills development, and other business activities.
On a basic level, it can be defined as the integration of digital technology in all parts of a company that leads to a change in how the company works and delivers value to its customers. However, it is common to refer to the same thing when you mention digital transformation and digitalization, we do too, which is not so strange as they are closely interconnected.
How is everything related?
Thus, to link the concept journey, we can see digitization as the conversion from analog to digital, digitization as the process whereby we change our way of working and our structures as a result of this and digital transformation as the total effect that it has in our society or in our organization. Digitalization is often used as a term that describes all this.
