{"id":61394,"date":"2015-11-03T09:55:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T08:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e3mag.com\/?p=61394"},"modified":"2019-07-24T10:12:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T08:12:18","slug":"the-makings-of-a-digital-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/the-makings-of-a-digital-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"What it takes to be a digital leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

The current study \"Digital Leader - Leadership in the Digital Age\" by Crisp Research on behalf of Dimension Data shows that only a small minority of decision-makers in German companies can provide important impetus for the digital transformation and manage the necessary change process in the company.<\/p>\n

For the study, 503 managing directors and IT and business decision-makers in companies in German-speaking countries were surveyed on digital leadership culture.<\/p>

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According to the survey, 71 percent of the decision-makers surveyed are \"digital beginners\" who lack both the technological skills and the corresponding mindset to drive forward the transformation in their own company.<\/p>\n

Around one in five are on the right track and have either the necessary skills and knowledge (\"digital skills\") or the digital-first mindset (\"digital mindset\").<\/p>\n

\"The study clearly shows that employees in key positions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland are not yet sufficiently equipped for the digital transformation\"<\/em><\/p>\n

says Sven Heinsen, CEO of Dimension Data Germany.<\/p>\n

\"Only a small minority have the skills of a digital leader who sees digitalization as an opportunity, strategically tackles new digital business models and critically examines existing IT solutions in terms of their value contribution to their own company.<\/em><\/p>\n

But this is exactly what companies need in order to initiate innovations and realize competitive advantages that enable a consistent digital transformation.\"<\/em><\/p>\n

A generational issue<\/h3>\n

These results are in stark contrast to the self-assessment of decision-makers: almost 40 percent see themselves as digital leaders and a full 60 percent rate their digital skills as strong or very strong.<\/p>\n

The study also shows that successfully shaping the digital transformation in companies is a generational issue. The proportion of those who are convinced that digitalization will have a very strong effect on their own company is almost twice as high among the under-40s as among the older generation.<\/p>\n

A similar effect can be seen with the average age in the company: The higher this is, the lower the influence of digital transformation is considered to be. A total of 50% of decision-makers are convinced that their company will not be affected by digitalization at all or only slightly.<\/p>\n

Apparently, the decision-making level is also not linked to the digitalization strategy and management in more than one in five companies: 22 percent of respondents stated that they were not involved in a single digitalization project.<\/p>\n

Those who are working on building next-generation IT have the restructuring or cloudification of IT infrastructure and IT security at the top of their agenda; this is currently being implemented in 39% of companies.<\/p>\n

\"At the same time, however, it is surprising that digital transformation projects have only reached strategic or board level in just under a fifth of companies\"<\/em><\/p>\n

comments Heinsen.<\/p>\n

\"By adopting the outdated view that the IT department alone is responsible for digital issues, managers are missing the opportunity to actively shape change and drive it forward decisively\"<\/em><\/p>\n

adds Heinsen.<\/p>\n

\"This harbors the risk that the solutions are not tailored to the business strategy and that the high investments in new technologies do not pay off.\"<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Only seven percent of decision-makers in companies have so far combined the competencies of a digital leader, are able to provide important impetus for the digital transformation and steer the necessary change process in the company.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":61274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1583],"tags":[600,601,369],"coauthors":[19920],"class_list":["post-61394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wirtschaft","category-1583","tag-digitale-transformation","tag-digitalisierung","tag-it","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015.jpg",1000,387,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015.jpg",400,155,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015-768x297.jpg",768,297,true],"large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015.jpg",1000,387,false],"image-100":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015-100x39.jpg",100,39,true],"image-480":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015-480x186.jpg",480,186,true],"image-640":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015-640x248.jpg",640,248,true],"image-720":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015-720x279.jpg",720,279,true],"image-960":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015-960x372.jpg",960,372,true],"image-1168":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015.jpg",1000,387,false],"image-1440":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015.jpg",1000,387,false],"image-1920":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015.jpg",1000,387,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015.jpg",1000,387,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015.jpg",1000,387,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015.jpg",18,7,false],"bricks_large_16x9":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015.jpg",1000,387,false],"bricks_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015.jpg",1000,387,false],"bricks_large_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015.jpg",1000,387,false],"bricks_medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015.jpg",600,232,false],"bricks_medium_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015.jpg",600,232,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2015-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"

Nur sieben Prozent der Entscheider in Unternehmen vereint bisher die Kompetenzen eines Digital Leader, k\u00f6nnen wichtige Impulse f\u00fcr die digitale Transformation geben und den daf\u00fcr notwendigen Ver\u00e4nderungsprozess im Unternehmen steuern.<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"Wirtschaft<\/a>, MAG 15-11<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"E-3 Magazine","url":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/author\/e-3-magazin\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61394"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=61394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}