Fairway for digital personnel captains

The hyper-connectivity of people, machines and systems is hurtling toward us like a tsunami.

"Good captains of industry don't fight the waves of innovation, they ride them and set new, visionary goals"

says future visionary Dietmar Dahmen.

The international top speaker and Chief Innovation Officer at Ecx.io creates goosebumps with his charismatic performances - and infects people with his digital euphoria.

Spotlight "Mobile Mindset

Digitization is giving a particular boost to mobile working. For the "Mobile Mindset" spotlight, the organizer of Personal Nord has invited further experts from science and practice to provide impulses.

The topic will be kicked off with a discussion on Twitterwall. Prof. Jochen Prümper from HTW Berlin will present the initial results of the "Mobile Work 2017" study.

HR decision-makers also need a mobile mindset for their own departments. Smartphone, tablet & Co. are increasingly becoming part of the application process. Steffen Manes, Managing Director of mobileJob.com and exhibitor at the trade fair, believes that this is a particularly good way to reach non-academic IT staff.

In addition, robots or matching technologies are playing an increasingly important role in recruiting. The developers of these technologies promise that job placements via algorithms will become more efficient and better.

Not only the technical, but also the personal suitability for jobs is tested. At the booths as well as on various stages and networking hubs, there is enough space to prepare purchasing decisions and to exchange ideas with like-minded people in person.

For the first time, experts for "Corporate Learning & Working" will have their say on the Start-up Stage at Personal Nord on both days of the exhibition.

While technical innovations develop with breathtaking speed and frequency, the world of work changes only in small steps: organization, leadership and personnel development often still correspond to very classical ideas.

"Never in the history of the economy has the discrepancy been so great"

says Hermann Arnold, co-founder of Haufe-umantis and one of the keynote speakers of the new lecture series "Corporate Learning & Working". The well-known founder voluntarily stepped down as CEO and, after taking time off, soon returned to work for the software manufacturer, in a project under the new CEO, who is now democratically elected.

Arnold acts as an active encourager:

"We have to rethink. In the future, everyone has to lead, everyone has to follow, and everyone has to know when what's appropriate."

Learning 4.0

This also applies to in-company training, which is undergoing major changes in the wake of digitization: Instead of further training being ordered top-down, employees' own responsibility for their further development and social learning directly at the workplace are taking on an ever greater role.

In addition, there are demands for digital skills for Industry 4.0 and Work 4.0. Open learning scenarios should make digital learning resources freely accessible and create a culture of sharing.

In the lecture series "Corporate Learning & Working", Prof. Kerstin Mayrberger, Professor of Teaching and Learning at the University of Hamburg, will explain how organizations can make these self-directed and collaborative learning processes suitable for everyday use as open education.