ABSTRACT
The essential vision Enterprises are in many ways the laggards of the new digital era. Their
processes and internal and external services remain rooted in the analog or
physical world, and the digital systems they use are frequently disjointed
and out-of-date relative to the latest web or consumer services and
applications. All that is about to change. Enterprises are about to undergo a
massive transformation and will become virtual in the broadest sense. The
new virtual enterprise will undergo a comprehensive digital transformation
to become adaptive, efficient and location-independent. It will virtualize
and digitize its own assets, build on the assets of others and, to the largest
extent possible, automate the dynamic utilization of those assets and their
connection to its business processes, while continuously optimizing the
employee and customer experience.
