Core Architecture, Key Values, and Implementation Path of Digital Transformation

What is Digital Transformation?

Digital transformation follows the new wave of technological and industrial change, deepening the use of cloud computing, big data, IoT, artificial intelligence, blockchain and other next‑generation information technologies to unlock data‑driven innovation, improve organisational survival and development, accelerate business optimisation and innovation, upgrade traditional capabilities and create new value.

Four Core Principles

It is a systemic change driven by information technology.

The fundamental task is to optimise, innovate and reconstruct the value system.

The core path is the construction of new capabilities.

Data is the key driving element.

These points are quoted from the T/AIITRE 10001‑2020 “Digital Transformation Reference Architecture” standard.

Reference Architecture

The architecture links five perspectives—development strategy, new capabilities, systemic solutions, governance, and business‑innovation transformation—with the overall goal of value‑system optimisation, innovation and reconstruction. The overall framework (Figure 5 in the source) presents the “what, how, roadmap” view.

Value‑Benefit Classification

Value benefits are divided into three categories:

Production/operation optimisation : efficiency improvement, cost reduction (R&D, production, management, transaction) and quality enhancement.

Product/service innovation : new technologies/products, service extensions, core‑business growth.

Business‑model transformation : user/ecosystem connection and empowerment, new digital businesses, sustainable development.

Each category lists concrete sub‑items as defined in T/AIITRE 10002‑2020 “Digital Transformation Value‑Benefit Reference Model”.

Five Key Tasks

Development strategy : integrate data‑driven concepts into the corporate strategy, define competitive‑cooperative advantage, business scenarios and value models.

New capabilities : identify, build and continuously improve capabilities that support value creation (e.g., product digitalisation, digital R&D design, capability for value‑creation carriers).

Systemic solutions : design integrated solutions covering data, technology, processes and organisation to enable new capabilities.

Governance system : establish digital governance, organisational mechanisms, management methods and culture, including security, talent development, funding coordination and standards.

Business‑innovation transformation : leverage new capabilities to digitise business, integrate processes, innovate models and cultivate digital services such as data services, knowledge‑graph services, digital‑twin modelling and platform‑based capabilities.

The article repeatedly cites the two standards (T/AIITRE 10001‑2020 and T/AIITRE 10002‑2020) as the source of the framework and the detailed sub‑items.

Images illustrating the architecture, value‑benefit taxonomy and task flow are included in the original article.