Dr. Philipp Ramin (Founder and CEO, Innovation Center for Industry 4.0, Regensburg) from the handbook Digital Competence and Future Skills In the foreword to this book, a perception gap between ambitious digital experts and a much larger group of people in companies and organizations all over the world, who understand little of substance about digital transformation has been emphasized. Building on this, this chapter sheds some critical light on the role of management in the context of digital transformation. Although this chapter may read as a presumptuous frontal attack on management floors, the author’s reflections are in no way intended as such. Rather, it is about a subjectively honest analysis of the complex fabric of digital transformation. Studies and articles are often written about the future of work and how "leadership" should develop in the future. Often, however, one supposedly simple question remains unanswered: are today's leaders even qualified for the tasks of tomorrow? Learning belongs on the strategic agenda, because today and in the future only learning companies are ultimately able to deal with the complexity and volatility of our continually evolving (business) world. The learning company starts with management and includes the entire organization. The handbook Digital Competence and Future Skills provides comprehensive insight into the future of competencies and learning and the transformation of business. For the first time, leading companies from a wide range of industries around the world provide concrete insights into their comprehensive approaches to transformation, competence management, culture change, and learning and development. In addition, leading scientists and institutions use the latest research findings to assess where we are today and what is to come in the future. #digicompetencebook #digikompetenzbuch #digikompetenzpodcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjxASUdSCAI
As Grids and service-oriented architectures have evolved to a common infrastructure for providing and consuming services in research and commercial environments, mechanisms are needed to agree on the objectives and the quality of such service provision. There is a clear trend to use electronic contracts between service consumers and one or more service providers, in order to achieve the necessary reliability and commitment from all parties. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are the means to model and manage such contracts in a unified way. Grids and Service-Oriented Architectures for Service Level Agreements, the thirteenth volume of the CoreGRID series, contains current research and up-to date solutions from research and business communities presented at the IEEE Grid 2009 Workshop on Service Level Agreements in Grids, and the Service Level Agreements in Grids Dagstuhl Seminar 2009. The contributions in this volume cover Grid environments, but also generic models for SLA management that are applicable to service-oriented systems in general, like market-economic strategies, negotiation models, or monitoring infrastructures. Grids and Service-Oriented Architectures for Service Level Agreements is designed for a professional audience composed of researchers and practitioners within the Grid community industry, and is also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science.
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