Digitalization Quotes

“The digital world has become safer and with that, came into existence many great ideas.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“Too Clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was "digitization" which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh. Film, photography, music: dead. "An aesthetic holocaust!”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time.”
― Robin Wasserman, Crashed

“What worries me is that a load of shite has been talked about digitisation as being the new Gutenberg, but the fact is that Gutenberg led to books being put in shelves, and digitisation is taking books off shelves.

If you start taking books off shelves then you are only going to find what you are looking for, which does not help those who do not know what they are looking for.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“Today, even tangibles are intangibles - cars, planes, and computers rely on software. They are essentially digital assets under the disguise of a mechanical body, and much of their value is intangible.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation

“...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence or lack of desire to achieve is about as useful as a Betamax video cassette player, and it's time for those folks to be retired, be they teachers, administrators, or community leaders, so the rest of us can try to do some real work in the service of equal access for black students and all students. (15)”
― Adam J. Banks, Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age

“Jeder ist immer erreichbar. Die ganze Welt beschleunigt sich, alles ist dringend, und wo alles dringend ist, ist nichts mehr dringend, und damit schlittern wir in eine Bedeutungslosigkeit hinein.”
― Joseph Weizenbaum

“The sustainable success of digital transformation comes from a carefully planned organisational change management process that meets two key objectives, one being the company culture, and the other one is empowering its employees”
― Enamul Haque

“Ecosystems blur the lines of fixed business models. In a digital, dematerialized, disintermediated world, there are no direct competitors.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Digitization + ubiquitous connectivity + consumer empowerment = enable an environment for disruptive innovation”
― Tom Golway, Planning and Managing Atm Networks

“Digital assets will be much bigger and faster you than analog assets and decentralized products will be much bigger than centralized products.”
― Olawale Daniel

“To digitize something is to record it, in a format that will last forever.”
― Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

“Digital speed is faster than anything in traditional businesses. Without a digital presence, it’s easy to be lost in the ocean of a fast-moving strategy”
― Enamul Haque, The Ultimate Modern Guide to Digital Transformation: The "Evolve or Die" thing clarified in a simpler way

“if we agree that in the future, every organization is essentially a digital organization—enabled through digital technologies, engaging customers on digital platforms and using online applications to drive sales, engagement or compliance—then it isn’t just the seamlessness of outcomes, but equally the methodology employed to deliver those outcomes which must be consistent across a large organization”
― Gyan Nagpal, The Future Ready Organization: How Dynamic Capability Management Is Reshaping the Modern Workplace

“The full digital potential of the business cannot be unleashed until IT is empowered to create differentiated business advantages.”
― Pearl Zhu, 100 IT Charms: Running Versatile IT to get Digital Ready

“Digital equilibrium is the optimal state of operational excellence, business agility, and organizational maturity.”
― Pearl Zhu, 100 IT Charms: Running Versatile IT to get Digital Ready

“Information tech in the era of the personal computer and network is today's equivalent of a Love Bug that not only works but creates a new image of work that allows corporate and other organizational cultures to imagine a cool new vision of themselves.

Information technology, in other words, is an institutional desiring engine.”
― Alan Liu

“Innovation, probably is the most controversially discussed term. In digitalization, innovation often is not being driven with the relevant business impact. As a result, businesses get stuck in old patterns and known issues which leads to more of the same.”
― Pedro Ahlers

“CRM doesn't have to be awful. Just plan how all the relevant parts will play together to achieve concrete business objectives before you start the implementation - and let your people know about it.”
― Pedro Ahlers

“If the result doesn't meet your business standard, lowering the standard might not me the solution.”
― Pedro Ahlers

“Mit welchem Content generieren wir Mehrwert? Mit allem, was die Probleme der Leute löst. Leute googeln heute nicht nach Lösungen, sondern sie googeln nach Problemen.”
― Roger Basler de Roca

“Algorithmen sind nicht einfach etwas, das man programmiert. Einen Algorithmus muss man konzipieren, erschaffen, testen.”
― Roger Basler de Roca

“Pictures: When moments become memories”
― Kaustav Misra

“As much as I love computers, I can't imagine getting an excellent education from any multimedia system. Rather than augmenting the teacher, these machines steal limited class time and direct attention away from scholarship and toward pretty graphics.”
― Clifford Stoll, High-Tech Heretic: Reflections of a Computer Contrarian

“At home, live a life which makes you forget where you kept your phone.”
― Hiral Nagda

“Jede medizinische Behandlung ist nur so gut wie ihre
Informationsgrundlage.”
― Robin Haring

“I had no idea that this was happening―not only in the Einstein library but in college and public libraries all over the country. I was horrified when I visited the library recently and found the shelves, once overflowing, now sparsely occupied. Over the last years, most of the books, it seems, have been thrown out, with remarkably little objection from anyone. I felt that a murder, a crime had been committed: the destruction of centuries of knowledge. Seeing my distress, a librarian reassured me that everything 'of worth' had been digitized. But I do not use a computer, and I am deeply saddened by the loss of books, even bound periodicals, for there is something irreplaceable about a physical book: its look, its smell, its heft. I thought of how the library once cherished 'old' books, had a special room for old and rare books; and how in 1967, rummaging through the stacks, I had found an 1873 book, Edward Liveing's Megrim, which inspired me to write my own first book.”
― Oliver Sacks, Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales

“We humans use intelligence sans digitization. This is a huge advantage that we have over computers.”
― Mukesh Borar, The Secrets of AI: a Math-Free Guide to Thinking Machines

“An algorithm can arrive at optimization, but only a human being - an artist, a thinker, a mathematician, an entrepreneur, a politician - only someone with a sense of perspective can interpret the meaning of the destination. Masters spend their entire lives in pursuit of this interpretation. This is how they make sense of the world.”
― Christian Madsbjerg, Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm

“But as the digital revolution has created new forms of communal engagement, it has accelerated a rot within society. Digitalization has decimated local communities, and traditional affiliations have weakened as younger generations have shifted their lives online. Was this a Faustian bargain? We have gotten convenience and efficiency at the cost of losing civic engagement, intimacy, and authenticity. In this we again hear the echo of the poet Oliver Goldsmith: 'Wealth accumulates, and men decay.' Amid such dislocations, people are drawn to fringe online communities--or even reject modernity itself, turning away from liberal democracy, economic growth, and technological progress.”
― Fareed Zakaria