I. Introduction

Is the Fourth Industrial (R)Evolution a "revolution" or an "evolution"? For those companies without the right instruments to monitor technological and socio-economic trends for making the right strategic adjustments to their business and/or operating models, in a proactive way, is most likely to be a "revolution", while for those thinking-forward companies with a strong praxis of technological forecasting and future studies on interrelated social, environmental, technological and economic factors may become to be a natural, non-reactive, "evolution" for their way of doing business. In both cases, in a proactive or reactive way, a Digital Transformation will be required in a certain for all organizations to stay competitive in a revamped Digital Economy leveraged by the new advancements of information, communication and operational technologies that have started to converge the digital and the physical worlds. In this sense, Digital Transformation [1] can be defined as a "specialized of business transformation, in the pursuit of innovative digital or hybrid business and/or operating models, where the adoption and integration of information, communication and operational technologies play a dominant role in the corporate strategy to create new competitive advantages, namely: digital capabilities, based on digitally-enabled internal and/or external operations (i.e. business processes) in order to create value for customers, employees and other stakeholders".