Digital Transformation for Thailand 4.0

Authors

  • พันเอก ดร.เศรษฐพงค์ มะลิสุวรรณ

Keywords:

Transformation, Digital, Thailand 4.0

Abstract

The 4th Industry Revolution (Industry 4.0) is making radical changes in every industry. Due to technology disruption, organizations can reach customers instantly and with lower costs. It also enables organizations to compete in new business areas as never before.

According to several research institutes, the carelessness of the leader and the overlooked of the executives on the little things without vision could make organizations collapse and disappear from the market quickly. The larger of the organizations that have the longer powerful periods can bring more likely the leader being proud and skeptical how anyone could compete. So that an acceptance of changing is the most important characteristic of good leaders. Strategists often suggest the ways to transform an organization to digital one. In general, most of the successful organizations tend to wisely use of digital technology by directing organizational change effectively.

However, most organizations have not yet set a strategic planning for transition to digital that will lead clearly to a digital success. In this research, managing and benefiting from digital transformations of traditional organizations are studied. It explains the elements of digital transformations in the successful cases and how to evaluate the digital development of the organizations. The researchers try to point out the importance of setting a strategic planning for digital transformation which recommend some principles that leaders and executives can apply to operate in their organizations both business and government sectors.

 

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20-12-2018

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มะลิสุวรรณ พ. ด. (2018). Digital Transformation for Thailand 4.0. Journal of Digital Communications, 2(2), 23–48. Retrieved from https://so04.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/NBTC_Journal/article/view/161419

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