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Leadership and Corporate Culture as Key Factors for Thriving Digital Change

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Digitalization, artificial intelligence (AI) and in particular increased availability of data enables companies to develop new or changed business models and generate additional revenues. In order to use these potentials successfully, the implementation of hybrid business models and new technologies often also requires a change in the existing management and corporate culture. Nevertheless, many companies neglect to accompany technological changes by developing the skills of managers and employees. Therefore, the Institute of Applied Industrial Engineering and Ergonomics conducted a Germany-wide online survey of specialists and executives (n = 178) to analyze the status quo and the requirements for personal development and leadership of companies from the German metal and electrical industry [1, 2].

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The presented results were elaborated in the research project “TransWork – Transformation of Labor by Digitalization”, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the “Innovations for Tomorrow’s Production, Services, and Work” Program (funding number 02L15A164) as well as in the research project “AnGeWaNt - Work on calibrated scales for hybrid weighing capacities on commercial vehicles” (funding number: 02L17B050), which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the European Social Fund (ESF). Both projects are implemented by the Project Management Agency Karlsruhe (PTKA). The authors are responsible for the content of this publication.

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Frost, M., Jeske, T., Ottersböck, N. (2020). Leadership and Corporate Culture as Key Factors for Thriving Digital Change. In: Nunes, I. (eds) Advances in Human Factors and Systems Interaction. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1207. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51369-6_8

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