The first was music, where digitization drove down costs and increased efficiency and competition.
"Two of the oldest libraries in Europe will join forces in an innovative approach to digitization driven by the actual needs of scholars and scholarship," Monsignor Cesare Pasini, the Prefect of the Vatican Library said in a statement, calling the project "a great step forward in the Vatican Library's entry into the digital age".
In addition, as companies increasingly pursue digitization to drive efficiency, reduce costs and build data-driven businesses, they simultaneously move into the "target zone" of cyber attacks.
Traditional definitions of "an industry" are becoming outdated as digitization and networking drive convergence across numerous formerly separate realms of activity including banking, IT, advertising, social media, print, broadcasting, timekeeping, mapping, and insurance.
In fact, the future of supply chain digitization will be driven by data and analytics.
The Indian government's drive toward digitization hopes to address some of these issues by making all broadcasters transmit digitally by the end of 2014 deadline.
Digitization is going to drive where the mortgage market goes, and because we are principally an insurance company, there is an extensive amount of data-dependent information that we can gather.
In core functional or process transformation initiatives — which are often driven by digitization — we've seen examples of people analytics being used to measure activities and find embedded expertise.
Much of the rapid expansion is being driven by digitization and data analytics, similar to the manufacturing industry.
As the drive toward increased digitization continues, enterprises have to get a handle on this total digitization — and corporate CIOs have to step up to the challenge.
