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: Received: 30 January 2024 / Approved: 31 January 2024 / Online: 31 January 2024 (12:51:25 CET)
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Ziozias, C.; Tsagalis, A.B.; Anthopoulos, L. Digital Transformation Strategies and COVID-19: Findings from Bibliometric Analyses and from a European Initiative. Preprints2024, 2024012183. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.2183.v1
Ziozias, C.; Tsagalis, A.B.; Anthopoulos, L. Digital Transformation Strategies and COVID-19: Findings from Bibliometric Analyses and from a European Initiative. Preprints 2024, 2024012183. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.2183.v1
Ziozias, C.; Tsagalis, A.B.; Anthopoulos, L. Digital Transformation Strategies and COVID-19: Findings from Bibliometric Analyses and from a European Initiative. Preprints2024, 2024012183. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.2183.v1
APA Style
Ziozias, C., Tsagalis, A.B., & Anthopoulos, L. (2024). Digital Transformation Strategies and COVID-19: Findings from Bibliometric Analyses and from a European Initiative. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.2183.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Ziozias, C., Antony B. Tsagalis and Leonidas Anthopoulos. 2024 "Digital Transformation Strategies and COVID-19: Findings from Bibliometric Analyses and from a European Initiative" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202401.2183.v1
Abstract
Digital transformation has become a strategic priority for the enterprises, the public organizations, and the cities lately since it addresses the adoption of cutting-edge information and communication technologies (ICT) for optimizing their business processes and for generating new types of value to their end users. Although the Covid-19 pandemic is claimed to be over, it appears that organizations and cities changed their digital transformation strategies that had defined before the outbreak. The aim of this paper is to investigate the type of changes that were caused both to enterprises and cities due to the pandemic. It investigates whether and in which directions it caused business changes and how the smart city strategic objectives were affected due to pandemic, especially in cases where digital transformation strategies were defined before the outbreak. This study uses bibliometric analysis to determine the effects of Covid-19 on businesses and cities. Findings specify strategic changes and important trends, like the migration of the production supply chains to nearby territories. Moreover, this article utilizes the European Intelligent Cities Challenge initiative, in which cities had defined their priorities for their digital transformation before the outbreak. From the analysis of the strategic plans of the involved cities, it is attempted to determine whether, which cities and in which directions they changed their strategies due to the pandemic.
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