Digital transformation: Digital maturity applied to study brazilian perspective for industry 4.0

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze digital transformation in a Brazilian perspective, aiming to understand it for Industry 4.0. Starting from academic researches, from Brazilian companies, a model based on dimensions to define a construct-digital maturity-was suggested, allowing a definite starting point to analyze it for industry 4.0 future scenario. To strengthen these definitions, results of a research about digitalization efforts in Brazilian companies, held by the innovation and entrepreneurship research group of Fundação Dom Cabral, a major Brazilian player on executive education, is presented, where opportunities and limitations for digital transformation in Brazilian companies were analyzed.