DIGITIZATION & DIGITALIZATION
Technology
Digitization converts analog to digital. Digitalization uses digital data to improve processes. Both rely on technology, with modern advancements like cloud computing and AI further enhancing these operations for efficiency and innovation.
From People to Data
Technology has the biggest impact - in the process of capturing or creating digital records of people (e.g., what they do, who they are, what they prefer, etc.). This is what "digitization," or the process of datafying human behavior, translating it into standardized signals (0s and 1s) is all about. It is useful to remember this, because the real benefits from technology are not "hard - cheaper systems or national infrastructure", but "soft - capturing and owning valuable data" - from relational, strategic and project interactions and/or engagements and/or work....
People
Data
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