Management for Digitalization and Industry 4.0

Global trends are changing how and what European companies manufacture. Progressive globalization and constant and immediate availability of relevant information through the Internet are not only changing the structure of global value networks but also compelling companies to operate under increasingly intense time, quality, innovation and cost pressure. Hence, the associated complexity of products, value networks and the planning and control processes is consequently growing. European companies are thus facing numerous seemingly conflicting challenges that their respective management has to reconcile.