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Digital Transformation: Why and How to Build a Digital Future

February 4, 2022

Digital Transformation: Why
Digitalization is an evolving process that took roots several decades ago. The first business computers and
data storage units emerged in the 1950s. In the 1960s, companies invested in databases and automated
processes to make reservations and plan materials or to gain easier access to schedules/inventories, MRP
was born in response to the Toyota Production Systems and Methods. In the 1970s, banking experienced
its first digital advancement with the invention of ATMs, which ignited a major digitization trend across
industry sectors banking, finance, retail, hospitality….

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