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Tying Digitalization to the Lean Mindset: A Strategic Digitalization Perspective

Abstract

Through qualitative case research involving two cases of digital lean implementation projects, we identify and explicate how grit, vision, and pragmatism (as enablers) and technology maturity, implementability, and idiosyncrasy (as barriers) interact with and affect strategic digitalization initiatives. Seemingly-paradoxical strategic approaches to digitalization emerge from the associations between the enablers and barriers with micro-foundations in continuous learning and purposeful implementation—in other words, a lean mindset. Lean thinking changes how firms work with production processes and practices, approach management culture, envision the larger operational landscape, and manage strategy. In today’s business environment, firms need to consider how to make digital technologies fit their own strategic and operational priorities. The contribution of this study is its presentation of strategic digitalization as a lean approach to competitive differentiation.

Category

Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Client

  • Research Council of Norway (RCN) / 295145

Language

English

Author(s)

  • Per Victor Eriksson
  • Sourav Sengupta
  • Ann Charlott Pedersen
  • Elsebeth Holmen
  • Heidi Carin Dreyer
  • Marte Daae-Qvale Holmemo
  • Signe Sagli
  • Sigrid Eliassen Sand
  • Sunniva Økland
  • Daryl Powell
  • Natalia Iakymenko
  • Serkan Eren
  • Eirin Lodgaard

Affiliation

  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • SINTEF Manufacturing

Year

2023

Publisher

Springer

Book

Advances in Production Management Systems: Production Management Systems for Responsible Manufacturing, Service, and Logistics Futures: IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2023, Trondheim, Norway, September 17–21, 2023, Proceedings, Part I

Issue

*

ISBN

978-3-031-43662-8

Page(s)

171 - 183

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