The Impact of Digital Transformation on Corporate Growth and Development

Digital transformation is a concept that defines the process of developing and changing workflows and culture in order to find solutions to social and sectoral needs with the integration of digital technologies. Digitalization, which focuses on creativity and innovation, has emerged to achieve more efficient results than traditional methods. The evolution of business plans and all internal processes from manual to digital platforms in organizations leads to an increase in efficiency and productivity by reducing time, labor and cost losses. As a result, organizations can provide better and faster service to their customers with the integration of digital technology. Digitalization increases productivity in production, enabling business processes in the production phase to be realized much faster and easier, increasing business performance, reducing occupational accidents that may occur during production and controlling costs in enterprises.

In recent years, digital transformation has become an important denominator of corporate growth and development. Regardless of the size of the organization, businesses have to adapt to developing technology in order to maintain their competitiveness on a global scale. Ensuring the digitalization of all processes such as human resources, accounting, procurement processes, production processes, IT, sales processes, etc. is of serious importance in terms of fast and easy access to accurate information. However, digital transformation spreads to all areas of organizations, causing fundamental changes in the way the organization works and delivers value to its stakeholders.

If we briefly talk about digital transformation tools;

Big Data: Big data, or "Big Data" in English, is data that cannot be stored, managed and analyzed with traditional database systems. Big data is a set of meaningful and processable data collected to be analyzed and increase efficiency.

Cloud technologies: Cloud systems, which are connected to the internet, provide highly capable information storage space. This technology is especially important for managing the increasing amount of information. The ability to share information across time and environment is also achieved through this technology.

Internet of Things (IoT): It is defined as the interconnection of devices with other devices and people through technological level communication tools and the automatic realization of various functions.

Therefore, it is expected that there will be significant changes and conveniences in both production processes, working style and lifestyle. It is expected to increase creativity, transparency and intelligence in resource utilization and logistics network in the production process, and to reduce costs while providing services.

Artificial Intelligence: Explained as the potential of a computer or a robot under the responsibility of a computer to perform many actions similar to intelligent beings, this tool generally includes services developed by analyzing human thinking styles.

Augmented Reality: It is the appearance of the real world environment with all its content, diversified with audio, video and GPS data via computer.

Virtual Reality: Technology that occurs in a virtual environment and allows people to interact.

Additive Manufacturing: The most important example of this technology, which is portrayed as the cumulative and additive production of parts one by one, is the elimination of mold production and efficient stock keeping with the use of three-dimensional printer technology.

Digitalization has significantly impacted employment opportunities. Automation and artificial intelligence have replaced many traditional jobs, creating new job opportunities in digital sectors such as software development, data analysis, test automation expertise and cyber security.

Augmented Reality: It is the appearance of the real world environment with all its content, diversified with audio, video and GPS data via computer.

Virtual Reality: Technology that occurs in a virtual environment and allows people to interact.

Additive Manufacturing: The most important example of this technology, which is portrayed as the cumulative and additive production of parts one by one, is the elimination of mold production and efficient stock keeping with the use of three-dimensional printer technology.

Digitalization has significantly impacted employment opportunities. Automation and artificial intelligence have replaced many traditional jobs, creating new job opportunities in digital sectors such as software development, data analysis, test automation expertise and cyber security.

In conclusion, digital transformation offers an important opportunity to increase the competitive advantage of businesses in the manufacturing sector, ensure sustainability and increase customer satisfaction. However, in order to realize this transformation successfully, it is necessary to determine the right strategies, select the right technologies, choose the right partners and ensure the adaptation of business culture to new technologies.