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Book Behavioral Competencies of Digital Professionals

Download or read book Behavioral Competencies of Digital Professionals written by Sara Bonesso and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shedding new light on the human side of big data through the lenses of emotional and social intelligence competencies, this book advances the understanding of the requirements of the different professions that deal with big data. It also illustrates the empirical evidence collected through the application of the competency-based methodology to a sample of data scientists and data analysts, the two most in-demand big data jobs in the labor market. The book provides recommendations for the higher education system to offer better designed curricula for entry-level big data professions. It also offers managerial insights in describing how organizations and specifically HR practitioners can benefit from the competency-based approach to overcome the skill shortage that characterizes the demand for big data professional roles and to increase the effectiveness of the selection and recruiting processes.

Book Behavioral Competencies for Innovation

Download or read book Behavioral Competencies for Innovation written by Sara Bonesso and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the first comprehensive investigation of the role of emotional intelligence in promoting innovation in the organizational context. Offering emerging insights into the human side of innovation. This book highlights how it has become strategically important for firm innovativeness to identify and evaluate those behavioral competencies that enable entrepreneurs and professionals to generate different types of innovation (product, process, marketing, organizational and strategic innovation). It illustrates a classification of behavioral competencies for innovation and provides empirical evidence collected through the application of the competency-based methodology to a sample of entrepreneurs and new product development teams. This book provides practical policy and managerial implications on how to develop and evaluate behavioral competencies in the higher education and organizational settings in order to foster individual innovation capacity.

Book Business 4 0 as a Subject of the Digital Economy

Download or read book Business 4 0 as a Subject of the Digital Economy written by Elena G. Popkova and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 1125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book substantiates the transformation processes in the system of modern entrepreneurship in the conditions of formation of Industry 4.0. The authors develop a scientific concept of business 4.0, determine the specific features of business 4.0 and current problems and perspectives of its development in developed and developing markets, study the infrastructural provision of business 4.0 in view of its sectorial specifics, outline the perspectives and recommendations in the sphere of development of business 4.0, and offer the scientific and practical recommendations for state and corporate management.

Book Competency Based Career Planning for Reference and User Services Professionals

Download or read book Competency Based Career Planning for Reference and User Services Professionals written by Jo Bell Whitlatch and published by ALA Editions. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reference and user services librarians need to be in charge of their own careers. And when it comes to their own professional development, that means being proactive.

Book Advances in Human Factors  Business Management and Leadership

Download or read book Advances in Human Factors Business Management and Leadership written by Jussi Ilari Kantola and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes new theories and practical approaches for promoting excellence in human resource management and leadership. It shows how the principles of creating shared value can be applied to ensure faster learning, training, business development and social renewal. In particular, it presents novel methods and tools for tackling the complexity of management and learning in both business organizations and society. Gathering the proceedings of the AHFE 2021 Conferences on Human Factors, Business Management and Society, and Human Factors in Management and Leadership, held virtually on July 25–29, 2021, from USA, this book provides researchers and professionals with extensive information, practical tools and inspiring ideas for achieving excellence in a broad spectrum of business and societal activities.

Book Digital Skills

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alexander J. A. M. van Deursen
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2014-07-10
  • ISBN : 1137437030
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Digital Skills written by Alexander J. A. M. van Deursen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to systematically discuss the skills and literacies needed to use digital media, particularly the Internet, van Dijk and van Deursen's clear and accessible work distinguishes digital skills, analyzes their roles and prevalence, and offers solutions from individual, educational, sociological, and policy perspectives.

Book Handbook of Research on Building Inclusive Global Knowledge Societies for Sustainable Development

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Building Inclusive Global Knowledge Societies for Sustainable Development written by Popescu, Cristina Raluca Gh. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge and information have significant impacts on individuals’ daily lives and activities, especially when referring to the new economy and the global knowledge societies. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused massive disruptions in the creation of the vital inclusive global information society. Due to this change, further study on the current difficulties and best practices of creating global knowledge societies is required in order to ensure communities can continue to advance and information is shared appropriately. The Handbook of Research on Building Inclusive Global Knowledge Societies for Sustainable Development aims at providing an updated view of the newest trends, novel practices, and latest tendencies concerning building inclusive global knowledge societies for sustainable development while focusing on the benefits and the opportunities derived from the new economy and the global knowledge societies. Covering topics such as smart cities, food security, and climate change, this major reference work is ideal for policymakers, government officials, business owners, managers, academicians, scholars, researchers, practitioners, instructors, and students.

Book Strategy and Behaviors in the Digital Economy

Download or read book Strategy and Behaviors in the Digital Economy written by Beatrice Orlando and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategy and Behaviors in the Digital Economy is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters, offering a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the field of Business, Management and Economics. The book comprises single chapters authored by various researchers and edited by an expert active in this research area. All chapters are complete in itself but united under a common research study topic. This publication aims at providing a thorough overview of the latest research efforts by international authors on this field of study, and open new possible research paths for further novel developments.

Book Current Achievements  Challenges and Digital Chances of Knowledge Based Economy

Download or read book Current Achievements Challenges and Digital Chances of Knowledge Based Economy written by Svetlana Igorevna Ashmarina and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on research from Russia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Switzerland and the Czech Republic on issues related to knowledge-based economy development. The idea for this book was developed during three international conferences on digitalization: VI, VII and VIII International Scientific Weeks, organized by Samara State University of Economics (Samara, Russia) in 2018–2020. It is an initiative by the scientific and business organizations in the Samara Region and their Russian and international partners to analyze the current digitalization of social-economic systems, the problems and perspectives of this process, and its role in the creation and development of a new type of economy and new quality of human capital. All the contributions focus on the search for effective ways of adapting to the new digital reality and are based analyses of international statistics, and data from specific companies, educational institutions and governmental development programs. The book explores a variety of topics, including • Knowledge and Information as Basic Values of a New Economic Paradigm; • Information Technologies for Ensuring Sustainable Development of Organizations; • Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Education and Business; • Digital Platforms and the Sharing Economy; • Potential of Digital Footprints in Economies and Education; • Sociocultural Consequences of Digitalization.

Book The Enterprise Big Data Framework

Download or read book The Enterprise Big Data Framework written by Jan-Willem Middelburg and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Businesses who can make sense of the huge influx and complexity of data will be the big winners in the information economy. This comprehensive guide covers all the aspects of transforming enterprise data into value, from the initial set-up of a big data strategy, towards algorithms, architecture and data governance processes. Using a vendor-independent approach, The Enterprise Big Data Framework offers practical advice on how to develop data-driven decision making, detailed data analysis and data engineering techniques. With a focus on business implementation, The Enterprise Big Data Framework includes sections on analysis, engineering, algorithm design and big data architecture, and covers topics such as data preparation and presentation, data modelling, data science, programming languages and machine learning algorithms. Endorsed by leading accreditation and examination institute AMPG International, this book is required reading for the Enterprise Big Data Certifications, which aim to develop excellence in big data practices across the globe. Online resources include sample data for practice purposes.

Book Health Professions Education

    Book Details:
  • Author : Institute of Medicine
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 2003-07-01
  • ISBN : 030913319X
  • Pages : 191 pages

Download or read book Health Professions Education written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Institute of Medicine study Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) recommended that an interdisciplinary summit be held to further reform of health professions education in order to enhance quality and patient safety. Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality is the follow up to that summit, held in June 2002, where 150 participants across disciplines and occupations developed ideas about how to integrate a core set of competencies into health professions education. These core competencies include patient-centered care, interdisciplinary teams, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and informatics. This book recommends a mix of approaches to health education improvement, including those related to oversight processes, the training environment, research, public reporting, and leadership. Educators, administrators, and health professionals can use this book to help achieve an approach to education that better prepares clinicians to meet both the needs of patients and the requirements of a changing health care system.

Book Digital Economy and the New Labor Market  Jobs  Competences and Innovative HR Technologies

Download or read book Digital Economy and the New Labor Market Jobs Competences and Innovative HR Technologies written by Svetlana Igorevna Ashmarina and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proceedings book contains papers presented at the XI International Online Forum named after A.Ya. Kibanov "Innovative Personnel Management,", which took place in Moscow, Russian Federation, 15th April-5th May 2020. Organized by Moscow State University of Management, the Forum chiefly focused on HR management issues under conditions of active penetration of IT into the management and economic sphere. The authors of contributions included in this book examine both the theoretical basis for the development of the labor landscape in our digital future, and specific practical issues related to the real business practice. The book includes results of multidisciplinary studies on the following issues: employment and the labor market: a future perspective; current trends of HR management development in digital conditions; IT for creating healthy work conditions; digital transformation and new architecture of the labor market; innovative, strategic HR management and HR analytics; leadership, etc. The book consists of six parts corresponding to thematic areas of the Forum. The first part deals with the transformation of the labor market under the influence of digitalization and international economic relations. The second part is devoted to the analysis of the current changes in the HR management caused by digitalization, as well as issues of creating a healthy work environment and managing well-being with information technology. New architecture of the labor market is considered in the third part of the book in the face of the global uncertainty and the application of digital technology in entrepreneurial activities. The fourth part investigates innovative approaches to the personnel development: from resource management to capacity management. The fifth part presents strategic HR management and HR analytics in the context of current macro-calls. And finally, the sixth part is aimed at considering leadership aspects and relations between investments in the human capital and needed business results. This book is a combination of different scientific opinions and research works of scholars from different countries and regions, offering us a colorful picture of the future labor landscape: jobs, competences and skills that will be in demand.

Book Digital Leadership in Higher Education

Download or read book Digital Leadership in Higher Education written by Josie Ahlquist and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Effective leadership means we must bring our values and mission - not just soundbites - to our activity in the digital sphere. And it's not as hard as you may think, thanks to the very practical examples and exercises Josie Ahlquist has given us in this book.”Brandon Busteed, President - University Partners, Kaplan, Inc.“Often, higher education leaders see social media as a burden. Digital Leadership in Higher Education should be required reading in any leadership program because it clearly demonstrates how social media can and should extend leadership rather than be a burden for it.”Russell Lowery-Hart, President - Amarillo CollegeIn this groundbreaking book, Josie Ahlquist provides readers with the tools they need to take a strong, values-based approach to leadership in the various digital spaces vital to the world of higher education today. Filled with real-world examples and tools to negotiate this ever changing digital landscape, the book fills an important niche in the literature: A user manual for your digital leadership journey.Each chapter includes tools and tactics, as well as stories that bridge the gap between technology and connection with community. This book doesn’t have a recipe for cooking up the next viral video, it offers lots of ways to stay true to individual and organizational values while engaging online. Whether a college president, dean of students, associate professor, or a program coordinator, there is a need for leaders who aren’t just early adopters and social media enthusiasts, but authentic individuals who back up their technology use with a purposeful philosophy and a values-based approach to their role.

Book Complex Systems  Innovation and Sustainability in the Digital Age

Download or read book Complex Systems Innovation and Sustainability in the Digital Age written by Aleksei V. Bogoviz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a coherent framework for understanding the essence of complex systems and the nature of digital transformations, analyzes challenges of and patterns in innovative development, and shares a wealth of insights and best practices, resulting in the most extensive coverage of the topic available. In particular, the book’s cutting-edge contributions, prepared by scientists, engineers, and field experts,focus on the design, implementation, and evaluation of practical interventions that promote the innovative and sustainable development of complex systems. In addition to sharing a rich collection of cases from around the world, they provide a broad interdisciplinary analysis of collaboration mechanisms, theories and approaches to support and accelerate the development of complex systems.

Book The Business Analysis Competency Model r  Version 4

Download or read book The Business Analysis Competency Model r Version 4 written by Iiba and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Business Analysis Competency Model(R) version 4 is a research and reference guide that provides the foundational information business analysis professionals need to continuously develop skills in real-time in order to meet the needs of organizations and for career growth.

Book Digitalization Cases Vol  2

Download or read book Digitalization Cases Vol 2 written by Nils Urbach and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-30 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a rich compilation of real-world cases on digitalization, aiming to share first-hand insights from renowned organizations and to make digitalization tangible. With all economic and societal sectors being challenged by emerging technologies, the digital economy is highly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. It confronts established organizations with substantial challenges and opportunities. Against this backdrop, this book reports on best practices and lessons learned from organizations that succeeded in tackling the challenges and seizing the opportunities of the digital economy. It illustrates how twenty organizations leveraged their capabilities to create disruptive innovation, to develop digital business models, and to digitally transform themselves. These cases stem from various industries (e.g. automotive, insurance, consulting, and public services) and countries, covering the many facets that digitalization may have. As all case descriptions follow a unified template, they are easily accessible for readers and provide insightful examples for practitioners as well as interesting cases for researchers, teachers, and students. Almost every organization is trying to figure out how best to respond to the opportunities and threats posed by digitalization. This book provides valuable lessons from those organizations that have already begun their digital transformation journey. Michael D. Myers, Professor of Information Systems, University of Auckland Digitalization Cases provides firsthand insights into the efforts of renowned companies. The presented actions, results, and lessons learned are a great inspiration for managers, students, and academics. This book gives real pointers on the how and where to start. Anna Kopp, Head of IT Germany, Microsoft The cases compiled in the second volume of Digitalization Cases show how disruption can actively be managed. Further, long-term insights from extended success stories of the first edition highlight that courage to change pays off well. This book represents a motivation for organizations to drive their digital transformation journeys actively. Markus Richter, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community and Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology, Germany

Book Industry Competitiveness  Digitalization  Management  and Integration

Download or read book Industry Competitiveness Digitalization Management and Integration written by Aleksei V. Bogoviz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-14 with total page 1031 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book presents a remarkable collection of chapters that provides readers with a coherent framework for understanding the factors driving industry competitiveness in contemporary conditions of economic digitalization and the ongoing transition to industry 4.0. Presenting contributions by scientists, engineers, and field experts, the book focuses on using advanced technologies and applications, building innovative and resilient systems in industrial enterprises, developing competitive management systems, creating competence networks, and enhancing integration to foster and sustain industry competitiveness. Both qualitative and quantitative studies are included, and this collection of diverse perspectives adds to the richness of the volume’s insights. Along with reviewing deep theoretical concepts and innovative approaches, the publication provides practical applications and technological solutions to real-world problems existing in industry. Recent advances in management theory and practice focused on the forces driving competition in industry are also extensively covered by the leading scholars and practitioners.