*4.1.2 The cost of restructuring the firms*

The transition to Industry 4.0 from a traditional organization requires the restructuring of the entire organization, as tasks are automated and decisionmaking processes are programmed. Every firm that will adopt Industry 4.0 system. We will have to create new business models and define a new strategy. Indeed, this transition requires rethinking the whole organization and processes, interconnecting departments, buying new equipment or modernizing the existing one, reassigning roles to employees, recruiting new operators, and many other disruptions of their current model. These major changes have a great cost for any business on many levels: financially, of course, but also in terms of time. Therefore, firms have to be especially careful when investing in these transitions in order to not fail its implementation of Industry 4.0.
