The human side of digital transformation within Swedish Agriculture
2021 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
This essay is about the digital transformation of Swedish agriculture. Related research describes that IoT, drones, robots, big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence are new resources that are expected to be applied to new agricultural methods (Chuang, et al., 2020) and are expected to maximize yields, minimize environmental impact, and reduce costs (Liu et al., 2021).
But the progress of digitization is described as uneven in Sweden (Hushållningssällskapet, 2019) and this work, therefore, aims to find out what digitization in Swedish agriculture looks like. Digital transformation journeys seldom fail because of technical problems, but rather because of the lack of companies' ability to effectively manage human factors (Alavi & Habel, 2021). For this reason, this work also aims to understand the possible challenges that farmers face to gain a better understanding of the human side in digital transformation.
Through a qualitative approach, interviews with four people from the industry organization Hushållningssällskapet have been conducted. An interview with a farmer has also been conducted. The results show that the digitalization of Swedish agriculture is uneven and that it varies greatly in the degree of digital tools around the country's agriculture. The study shows that the uneven development of digital transformation in Swedish agriculture is partly since the investment is expensive and the implementation time-consuming, which is described as two obstacles to the development's progress.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2021. , p. 46
Keywords [en]
Industry 4.0, Agriculture 4.0, Smart Farming, Digital Transformation, Digitalization, HumanComputer Interaction, User Centered Design
National Category
Information Systems, Social aspects
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-17823Local ID: EXI802OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-17823DiVA, id: diva2:1612852
Subject / course
Informatics
Educational program
IT och verksamhetsutveckling
Supervisors
Examiners
2021-12-062021-11-192021-12-06Bibliographically approved