SUPPLY CHAIN DIGITALIZATION AND BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION: THE CHANGE MANAGEMENT CHALLENGE

Digitalization has made its way to all industries. Technological enablers like broadband and mobile internet, wearables and big data or the Internet of Things and cloud computing have made it possible to develop entirely new business models and provide new offerings (value propositions) to customers. None of those, however, would be possible without paying particular attention to how these innovations will be rolled out, and the impact they will have. Within the paper, Enterprise Architecture (EA) approach, that describes the relationships of an organization's fundamental business elements (such as business goals, products, processes, applications, and technologies), and the process of its implementation was presented. The evaluation to what extent business processes and business requirements were supported by IT systems was made. In the course of the analysis, the benefits in this respect were identified.