Digitalization: Size Doesnt Matter, Put Focus on ProductandService, Not on Process Digitalization is opening new era in business as it provides clear advantages for companies to make the whole value chain customer and data centric, innovative, better quality, more convenient working conditions, less labor demanding, and more efficient. Despite of long list of potential benefits it is not known how good companies are to implement them and how it affects the performance. Quantitative data from 132 Estonian companies is used to reveal the impact. Estonia is European Union country known for high innovativeness and companiesu0027 emphasis on process improvements. Results indicate that process digitalization is not as important as productservice digitalization. Managerial decisions have more effect than staff activities. Impact on performance is surprisingly marginal. There is no size related variance.

Towards Industry 4.0? Digital Maturity of the Manufacturing Industry in a Swedish Region The purpose of this paper is to assess the digital maturity of the manufacturing industry in a Swedish region. Data is collected using a survey conducted among the manufacturing industry in the region. Variables are based on prior research on digital maturity and Industry 4.0, and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical analysis. An initial finding was that several of the small organizations within the manufacturing industry does not have a basic digital presence in the form of a website, email or social media accounts, which calls for alternative approaches when assessing and developing digital maturity among these actors. The results from the survey reveal that perceived potential of digitalization and organizational enablers are ranked higher than actual operationalizations in the form of technology implementations and projects. Moreover, the digital maturity varies on variables such as organization size, location of customer base, and level of technological output. Organizations with a high degree of female employees perceive a higher digital maturity concerning some variables, which is an interesting subject for further studies. The overall conclusion is that a large part of the industrial sector in the region has not implemented anything that resemble the concept of Industry 4.0 in the literature.