managing exciting achievements . Take for instance the colour-matching technology developed by the German Fashion Institute ( DMI ) that is enabling the textiles industry to replicate exact shades by sending a code from the designer to the factory , rather than sending fabric swatches all the way around the world . Exact matches are made and communicated in an instant when previously sending swatches for matching took days or even weeks .
There are so many upsides to digital transformation for other organisations , such as local and national governments , hospitals and , other civic services . The possibilities are dizzying . Gartner has predicted that this year the number of connected things will reach 4.9 billion with this
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