The Polish SMEs as Intelligent Organizations in an Era of Digital Transformation

The impact that the digital transformation (DT) has on businesses, suppliers, and other third parties has increased significantly now. Digital transformation means improving traditional manufacturing processes with the help of digital technologies. The goal of digital transformation is to increase production efficiency and reduce costs, improve the quality of goods and services produced, and quickly adapt to changes in the global market. The state of industrial production is constantly changing due to the instability of global, economic and political decisions, so the adoption and expansion of digital solutions based on Industry 4.0, the Internet of things, machine learning, and other technologies of the future is accelerating. With the help of these technologies, companies are trying to change approaches and find new ways to solve problems. In this article the author analyzed the phenomenon of a complex system of knowledge management with tools as SMAC, AI, IoT and Edge computing in intelligent organizations as a part of intelligent economy. The arguments are illustrated with the results of own research conducted by the author in 2021-2022 in selected SMEs from the Polish Wielkopolska Province and their reference to the general development trends in this area.