Digital Nervous System

Business at the speed of thought - digital nervous system

I think business will change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50 and businessmen that seize the opportunity and use digital tools to move information inside their enterprise, as well as to approach to customers in new ways, their companies will lead in this era. Information flow in company will be (and is) your lifeblood. Therefore I have chosen to describe the term “Digital Nervous System – DNS” and data flow.

Like a human being, a company is required to have an internal communication mechanism, a “nervous system”, to coordinate its actions. All businessmen focus on a few basic elements: customers; products and services; revenues; costs; competitors on the market; delivery; and, of course, employees. A company has to carry out and coordinate the business processes in each area, especially activities that cross department lines. Sales needs to quickly find out whether the company has the inventory or can get it quickly before promising a big delivery. Manufacturing needs to know what product is being sold good so that it can properly adjust production priorities. Business managers and decision makers throughout the company need to know about both and very more. The middle managers in every company need to understand where are their profits and losses, what marketing strategies are working or not, and what investments are currently more important and actual than other. They're the people who need accurate and precise data because they're the ones who act regionally. They need an immediate, constant flow of the right information.

Digital technology can transform your production processes and your business processes. It can also free workers from slow and inflexible paper processes. Replacing paper processes with digital processes frees knowledge employees to do productive work. The all-digital workplace is usually called "the paperless office," a term which goes back to at...