DT: Digital Skills: Learning the Skills for Digital Transformation
Digital Skills: Learning the Skills for Digital Transformation
Digital technologies are the key drivers for innovation in all industries. Entire value chains and business models are being redefined. In this webcast, you will learn what the implications are for the workforce when you go digital. While Digital Transformation offers plenty of opportunities to achieve a competitive advantage, future success largely depends on adequate skills to explore and seize these opportunities. Recent research shows that a broad skill base is required for a successful Digital Transformation and that lacking digital skills are among the top barriers to Digital Transformation. To overcome the skill gap, digital leaders invest heavily in learning.
This session will help you to understand the necessity to have a digital skill plan in place to close your company’s skills gap. Learning must start at the beginning of the Digital Transformation journey. To define and implement a digital strategy, business leaders must become technologically literate and a comprehensive skill transformation plan must accompany the digital journey. It is important that the workforce can gain digital skills to be able to execute on the strategy. As the digital strategy unfolds and evolves over time, the learning needs should be analyzed continuously and the learning plan is extended and adjusted accordingly.
With technology evolving, the ability to gain and share knowledge is itself being transformed. With the widespread availability of the internet and social media, knowledge and experiences can be shared at a faster, almost instant speed. With the rapidly growing adoption of new technologies and more digital natives entering the workforce each year, many companies are turning to online learning to help employees stay current.
In this presentation, you will gain the information and tactics to be prepared for the Digital Transformation.
Speaker: Bernd Welz, EVP and Global Head of Scale, Enablement & Transformation, SAP
Speaker Bio:
Bernd Welz is executive vice president and global head of Scale, Enablement & Transformation (SET) in SAP SE. In his role, he is responsible for providing high-quality product learning offerings, including the leading cloud learning services openSAP and SAP Learning Hub for SAP professionals and end-users at customer and partner organizations and other external communities. Furthermore, he is responsible for the SAP University Alliances and Next-Gen Program, which aims at making an impact on the next-generation workforce by connecting students and academia with customers, partners, start-ups, and SAP in an innovation network.
Bernd reports to Bernd Leukert, member of the SAP Executive Board, leading the Products & Innovation Board area. Bernd Welz is a recognized thought leader in knowledge management, digital learning, and skills for Digital Transformation. In addition, he acts as a mentor for students focusing on innovation, technology, and social entrepreneurship. Bernd started his career with SAP in 1997 and has had several transformational leadership roles, such as the foundation of the SAP Cloud services. Most recently, he led the transformation of SAP’s professional service and support organizations into the new Digital Business Services unit, in order to best support SAP’s clients on their Digital Transformation journey.
Before joining SAP, Bernd was a strategy consultant at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, located in Düsseldorf and London. Bernd holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and Machine Learning from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst USA, and a Doctoral Degree in Artificial Intelligence from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He has completed several Service Leadership Programs at Harvard University and INSEAD.
