A Review of Organizational Readiness Models for Entering the Fourth Industrial Revolution

With the emergence of a phenomenon called "Fourth Industrial Revolution" and its technologies and applications, developed countries such as: Germany, America, Japan and some developing countries such as: China, India, trying to create suitable infrastructures. They have evaluated and improved their level of readiness in order to enter to the fourth industrial revolution in various industries to achieve its many benefits through digitization. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate the readiness level of organizations and industries to enter this digital industrial revolution, and in line with that, the necessary strategies to achieve the desired readiness level and implement the technologies and systems of the fourth industrial revolution are determined. Therefore, the present research aims to introduce the best Industry 4.0 readiness models by a wide review of the research literature and analyze the models in order to help organizations to use the appropriate readiness models and evaluate their degree of readiness. The results show that the best model based on the six research evaluation criteria is Impuls readiness model and Warwick University's readiness model is in second place.