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When the RISE Laboratory began its research into digital transformation in 2013, we could hardly have imagined how much this phenomenon would grow and how it would develop in just 8 years. At least in Italy, no one was yet talking about "4.0", but it was now clear that the digital transformations already underway in the lives of each of us were also appearing in the industrial world. Over time, the term 'Industry 4.0' was established, and later the phenomenon extended beyond industry and beyond production, encompassing all business processes (Enterprise 4.0) and going beyond the boundaries of individual companies (Supply chain 4.0).
This is why we now prefer to speak of 'digital transition', and think of it as a new paradigm and no longer as the application of some more or less new digital technology to manufacturing processes. It is a paradigm, moreover, that intertwines and intersects with other paradigms that are asserting themselves just as vigorously and just as fundamentally in the current panorama, such as, for example, the so-called "servitisation" and, perhaps even more so, the circular economy.
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