While digitization projects in past years were primarily concerned with digitizing processes, constantly improving the customer experience and ultimately generating new business models, “smart” solutions are now to be provided for our society.
Smart Society – Curse or blessing?
But an intelligent society is not only based on (digital) technologies. In addition to the necessary financial resources, political will and cross-silo thinking and action are essential. Thus “smart” solutions only emerge when the data and processes of the individual silos are linked with the goal of creating added value for society through high-quality information.
Digital was yesterday, the future will be smart
Our society is becoming ever more intelligent, or rather “smarter. At present, the adjective “smart” is prefixed to countless terms, although its meaning and purpose are not always clear. From “elegant” to “shrewd,” “clever” and “smart” to “chic,” the to “chic,” the translation into German is very diverse. The term “smart” has not yet been clearly defined and delimited, which is why it can be used in a similarly broad way as the term “digitization. While digitization projects in past years were primarily concerned with digitizing processes, constantly improving the customer experience, and ultimately customer experience and ultimately generate new business models, the aim now is to smart” solutions are now to be provided for our society. Or to put it another way: “smart” is the new “digital”.
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“We need to learn, to use data intelligently without violating privacy.”
