# Digital transformation `kaal:entity:digital-transformation` **Status.** derived This node is assembled mechanically from the 7 claims that carry the concept tag `digital-transformation`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself. ## Every claim under this term 7 claims across 3 works, 2018 to 2021. **2018** - [3227933-041](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3227933-041) [mechanism/argued] -- Firms that embed new technology into every aspect of their organization and governance build an open, unmediated, tech-driven culture that gives them a competitive advantage in attracting talent, raising capital, finding partners and remaining relevant in hyper-competitive global markets. > Such an unmediated and tech-driven culture will give them a competitive advantage in attracting talent, raising capital, finding suitable partners and, perhaps most importantly, in remaining relevant in today's hyper-competitive global markets. Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Why 'Blockchain' Will Disrupt Corporate Organizations (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227933 - [3227967-001](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3227967-001) [mechanism/argued] -- The deep architecture of a digital world regulates behavior in many ways, and those regulatory effects cannot be seen or understood unless one examines the nature of the underlying code and how it operates. > The deep architecture of a digital world can regulate in a host of ways, ways that one cannot begin to see (or understand) unless you consider the nature of such code and how it operates. Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in a Digital Age Why 'Coding for Lawyers' Matters (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227967 - [3227967-002](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3227967-002) [mechanism/argued] -- Lawyers have historically been most effective and most socially useful when acting as transaction engineers who facilitate new business and social relationships, and the engineering of the near future will largely be code based. > Historically, lawyers have been at their most effective – and socially useful - when they operate as "transaction engineers," i.e., facilitating new forms of business and other social relationships.6 It seems obvious that the "engineering" of the near-future will, to a large extent, be code-based. Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in a Digital Age Why 'Coding for Lawyers' Matters (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227967 - [3227967-004](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3227967-004) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- The traditional knowledge transmission model of education is ill suited to a world of fast paced change and easy access to information, because prior experience may not be relevant to a fast changing reality and information is always one search away. > But, this model seems ill-suited to a world of fast-paced change and easy access to information. Prior experience may not be relevant to a fast-changing reality and information is only ever one Google search away. Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in a Digital Age Why 'Coding for Lawyers' Matters (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227967 - [3227967-012](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3227967-012) [mechanism/argued] -- Since companies are increasingly managed by and run on software code, facilitating transactions, that is, acting as an active transaction engineer, now involves coding. > Since all companies are now increasingly managed by and run on software code, facilitating transactions – i.e., being an active transaction engineer - involves coding. Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in a Digital Age Why 'Coding for Lawyers' Matters (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227967 - [3227967-027](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3227967-027) [predictive/argued] -- In a digital world trust can be embedded directly in software code, and recent interest in smart contracts suggests this will be a significant growth area in the near future. > In a digital world, trust can be embedded in software code. Recent interest in smart contracts suggests that this is going to be a significant growth area in the near-future. Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Legal Education in a Digital Age Why 'Coding for Lawyers' Matters (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3227967 **2021** - [3808859-005](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808859-005) [condition/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Technological transformation stalls until its supporting infrastructure exists: the digital transformation was inhibited until infrastructure was built, laws were updated, and new institutions were created, just as the steam and combustion engines required new streets, wiring, laws, and institutions. > digital transformation was inhibited until the needed infrastructure was built, laws were updated, and new institutions were created. Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808859 ## Verify Every claim above resolves to a record carrying a verbatim source quote, the sha256 of the source PDF, and a preformatted citation. Nothing here asks to be taken on trust. curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/digital-transformation.md | sha256sum **Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of this entity node. Its sha256 is the content hash.