Digital Transformation in the Agriculture and Food sector

The outbreak of COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdown had a great impact on the food supply chain. Organizations were forced to adapt to their environment in which the digital transformation was of significant importance. One of the challenges was to overcome a food crisis, due to closed borders organizations had to come up with new ways to find supplies. Organizational changes forced new ways of thinking and innovation. A shift to a more decentralized IT-Governance model was visible since local innovation became more important. However after COVID-19 a combination of centralized and decentralized IT-Governance is expected. This way organizations can benefit from local innovation while enjoying economies of scale and data integration. Acquiring digital technologies like Big Data would help to increase the food safety monitoring, big data also helped by tracing the COVID-19 outbreak. Organizations are forced to look at the cybersecurity aspects like confidentiality, integrity and availability threats.