Lean and Digital Strategy Role in Achieving a Successful Digital Transformation

Nowadays, digital technologies are completely transforming the way in which companies are managed. After the massive spread of digital technologies thanks to the Industry 4.0 phenomenon, companies needed to find a way to integrate them into their processes, particularly in the manufacturing industry. Thus, in the last years, several researchers investigated ways to integrate them in the best way to exploit the benefits they can give. It has been discovered that one fundamental pillar that can facilitate their implementation is Lean Production. This study wants to focus even more on this relationship by showing how companies with a higher degree of Lean Production adoption tend to have a more structured strategy in their digital transformation path and how this has an effect on the implementation performance. By using a survey, this study shows how Lean Production is associated with the company’s digitalisation strategy and how leveraging this strategy is fundamental to achieving outstanding implementation performance.