Digital transformation scoreboard 2018 : EU businesses go digital : opportunities, outcomes and uptake

Digital technologies have created new markets and unprecedented business opportunities. They will open new ways for companies to integrate their customers´ needs and preferences into their development and production processes, help them to enhance quality and avoid faults in their production processes and create transparency and flexibility across entire process chains. In Europe, the key challenge is to ensure that such opportunities are fully captured by industry and service companies, leveraging digitization to create growth and new jobs. The aim of the Digital Transformation Scoreboard 2018 is to assess to what extent this is the case and to provide evidence on the extent of digital transformation in Europe. The evidence gathered will help decision-makers at EU and national level to create policies supporting EU companies in the digital transformation processes. It will enable companies to understand why digital technologies are important and how they can create (or reinforce) their own digital strategy.