Index 2
DMCC Industry Digitalisation Index 2024
Explore the Impact of Digitalisation on Trade
DMCC Industry Digitalisation Index 2024 focuses on quantifying the changes in technology and how they have affected world trade.
The Industry Digitalisation Index (IDI) tracks businesses’ digitalisation progress across sectors and spans four separate pillars of digitalisation in the processes of trade and general business activities.
These four pillars are:
Upstream
This component studies how much businesses are digitalising their practices when it comes to connecting with external suppliers.
Downstream
This measures how much businesses are digitalising their practices when it comes to connecting with their clients—be they consumers or other businesses.
Digital infrastructure
This final component looks at businesses’ progress in setting up a digital infrastructure to support the digitalisation of the production phases covered in the rest of the index.
Production
This measures the extent to which businesses are digitalising their internal processes.
The index has been extensively updated to incorporate emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI) and big data analytics, reflecting the latest advancements in these fields.
Upstream Digitalisation
The upstream component of the index showed significant room for improvement in enhancing digital supply chain management.
Downstream Digitalisation Score
The downstream score reflected a significant opportunity for businesses to enhance their digital client engagement strategies.
Production Digitalisation
Production processes show the lowest digitalisation score
Digital Infrastructure Scores
Digital infrastructure remains the highest-scoring component of the digitalisation index.
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