Something that seem to drive a lot of non-German speakers nuts when Germans talk about "the digital" is the use of the 3 terms "digitization", "digitalization" and "digital transformation"

Fwiw, the way I parse it is:

1. "digitization" = purely translating something into digital formats (like scanning a text from paper)
2. "digitalization" = one step further, read using digital tools/techniques/processes to get stuff done
3. "digital transformation", the real deal

To be honest, I feel that (except for very narrow exceptions, like archives), the concept of "digital transformation" is the only one we should still be talking about in 2020.

But in case you& #39;ve ever wondered what the deal was with German-speakers using those terms, that& #39;s what.

(It all comes down to the German word being "Digitalisierung"; that& #39;s just wrangled into English, and the results are confusing AF. But also the debate here is often way behind, so that doesn& #39;t help either. "Everything that has to do with computers!")