Working Seminar: “Digital Transformation and the next frontiers – Where are we and where do we go from here?”

Bio

Abayomi Baiyere is an Associate Professor at the Digitalization Department of Copenhagen Business School, a Research Affiliate at MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research, and a visiting scholar at the University of Turku. Before joining academia, he worked for companies such as SAP, ABN AMRO (Dialogues Incubator), and as an Entrepreneur. His research interest sits at the intersection of digital transformation, digital disruption, and the societal impact of digitalization. His studies have looked at these issues from an organizational and societal perspective. His research mostly takes a design science, ethnographic, and mixed methods orientation, among other approaches.

Abstract

Digital Transformation (DT) has become one of the oft-discussed issues of recent times, both in academic and practitioner circles. The rapidly growing body of literature on DT has provided us with useful knowledge about the definition, process and conditions of DT, among others. This talk would focus on presenting a brief overview of the state of the DT literature and highlighting some key understanding and assumptions that have characterized our thinking about DT. Based on this, I question some of the fundamental assumptions of DT derived from literature with the hope of stimulating discussion among the audience on what the next frontiers of DT could be.