Sándor Gyula Nagy, PhD, is Full Professor and the Director of the Research Centre for Supplier and Industrial Development, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary.

Tamás Stukovszky, PhD, is research fellow at the Research Centre for Supplier and Industrial Development of the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary.

This book aims to help students, practitioners and industry leaders to become change agents and take their first steps on the path of transformation. Smart Business and Digital Transformation addresses the challenge of becoming "smart" from three different perspectives: smart factory, smart industry, and smart environment.

Foreword

Introduction

Part I Smart factory

1 Definitions and principles of Industry 4.0

2 The concept of continuous and smart improvement

3 The layers of I4.0 systems

4 Connectivity and data sharing with stakeholders inside and outside the organisation

5 Data mining, analysis and evaluation

6 Lean 4.0

7 Artificial/enhanced intelligence

8 AI's impact on the labour market

¿Part II Smart business transformation

9 The business model of I4.0

10 Marketing planning in a smart industrial environment

11 Smart supply chain

12 Fintech and smart banking

Part III Smart environments

13 Smart cities

14 Construction 4.0

15 Smart agriculture

16 Society 5.0