scholarly journals Digital Scientist 2035—An Outlook on Innovation and Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrice Barbazzeni ◽  
Michael Friebe
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
New Era ◽  
Disruptive Technologies ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Advanced Technologies ◽  
To Come ◽  
Smart Technologies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Internet Of Things

With the advent of the fourth industrial revolution accompanied by the Internet of Things, the implementation of smart technologies and digitalization already had a great impact in our society, especially when considering exponential innovation and human development. In this context, some types of employment have already been replaced or have been enhanced by the use of robots, human-machines interfaces and Artificial Intelligence systems. And there is likely more to come. If innovation can be viewed as a direct or indirect outcome of scientific research, which role will a scientist play in 2035? We developed a survey to investigate the opinions of scientists with respect to the possible future implementation of disruptive technologies, their feelings and approaches to digitalization, and particularly the impact of digital transformation on scientific education. In a futuristic scenario, we can imagine that scientists will be supported by technologies, carrying out numerous experiments, managing big datasets, producing accurate results, increasing communication, openness and collaboration among the worldwide scientific community, where ethics, regulations and social norms will always be observed. The new era of Digital Science is coming, in which humans will start to incorporate more disruptive and advanced technologies into their daily life; essential aspects for exponential innovation and development.

Digital transformation: “jobocolypse” or empowerment?

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeynep Hizir
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Industry Research ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of digital transformation on jobs and to assess whether or not the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution will lead to mass redundancies. The piece also looks at the role human resources (HR) departments will have to play in the implementation of, and response to, digital transformation within the workplace. Design/methodology/approach This paper combines research based on media articles, a parliamentary report and wider digital transformation industry research. The author looks to explain what digital transformation is, deconstruct misconceptions around digital transformation, assess the true evidence-based impact of digital transformation on jobs and advise HR departments on the impact of digital transformation within the workplace. Findings This piece finds that there remains a considerable degree of misunderstanding and many misconceptions around digital transformation and that while digital transformation will lead to the loss of some jobs, it will also lead to the change of existing ones and creation of new ones. Furthermore, this piece finds that HR departments will play a crucial role in the implementation of digital transformation, but that they too will need to pivot and adjust to new workplace realities as a result. Originality/value Many HR departments face confusion and misconceptions around the impact of digital transformation on the workforce, and there also remains concern among many employers that technology will replace their jobs. This piece seeks to dispel the myths and paint a clearer picture to both HR departments and employees around the impact of digital transformation.

Digitization in construction

BUILDER ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 266 (9) ◽  
pp. 15-17
Author(s):  
Anna Tryfon-Bojarska ◽  
Ewelina Wińska
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Property Development ◽  
Innovative Project ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
The Impact

The fourth industrial revolution leads to a comprehensive digital transformation of enterprises. Its nine pillars also affect the construction industry. This article presents the impact of digital transformation on innovative projects which are implemented in the construction industry. It describes examples of digital innovations that are used in the life cycle of a property development undertaking, as well as examples and case studies of applied innovative project management models.

scholarly journals The Effect of CSR Attributes on CSR Authenticity: Focusing on Mediating Effects of Digital Transformation

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7206
Author(s):  
Huifang Liu ◽  
Jin-Sup Jung
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
Chinese Sample ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Csr Strategy ◽  
The Face ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Impact

What corporate social responsibility (CSR) attributes determine the CSR authenticity of a company? In the face of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, what direction should the CSR strategy pursue? In the electronics industries in Korea and China, are there any differences in CSR attributes? In this study, we start with some of these basic questions. Considering the promotional and actual costs incurred from CSR activities, CSR strategy are not an issue that can be easily determined from the corporate perspective. However, now it is essential for companies to carry out CSR and sustainable development goals (SDGs) activities, and businesses cannot overlook social issues either. Companies cannot pursue only growth through corporate interests without social value. In this study, we derive three attributes of CSR fit, CSR sustainability, and CSR impact to verify the authenticity of CSR activities. Moreover, we demonstrated the impact of these three attributes on CSR authenticity for the electronics industries in Korea and China. As a result of empirical testing, most of three attributes above mentioned (i.e., CSR fit, CSR sustainability, and CSR impact) produce meaningful results for CSR authenticity. However, CSR sustainability was rejected for the Korea sample, and CSR fit was rejected for the Chinese sample, showing some differences between the two countries. Meanwhile, the digital transformation of the Fourth Industrial Revolution had strong partial mediating effects between CSR attributes and CSR authenticity. This means that digital transformation can be an important pathway to achieve CSR authenticity and suggests that important mediating effects can eventually lead to a firm’s competitiveness.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and the Digital Transformation of Education: What Are We Learning on 4IR in South Africa?

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 180 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Mhlanga ◽  
Tankiso Moloi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Improve Access

The study sought to assess the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic in motivating digital transformation in the education sector in South Africa. The study was premised on the fact that learning in South Africa and the rest of the world came to a standstill due to the lockdown necessitated by COVID-19. To assess the impact, the study tracked the rate at which the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) tools were used by various institutions during the COVID-19 lockdown. Data were obtained from secondary sources. The findings are that, in South Africa, during the lockdown, a variety of 4IR tools were unleashed from primary education to higher and tertiary education where educational activities switched to remote (online) learning. These observations reflect that South Africa generally has some pockets of excellence to drive the education sector into the 4IR, which has the potential to increase access. Access to education, particularly at a higher education level, has always been a challenge due to a limited number of spaces available. Much as this pandemic has brought with it massive human suffering across the globe, it has presented an opportunity to assess successes and failures of deployed technologies, costs associated with them, and scaling these technologies to improve access.

scholarly journals Virtual HRD’s Role in Crisis and the Post Covid-19 Professional Lifeworld: Accelerating Skills for Digital Transformation

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-25
Author(s):  
Elisabeth E. Bennett ◽  
Rochell R. McWhorter
Keyword(s):  
Human Resource Development ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Organizational Leaders ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
New Era ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Work Strategies ◽  
Hrd Professionals

The Problem. The Covid-19 pandemic brought unprecedented crisis to a world already undergoing digital transformation. Millions of people began working virtually to prevent the spread of disease and to maintain business continuity, suddenly participating in virtual human resource development (VHRD) and alternative work strategies that helped organizations adapt to current challenges and prepare for future disruption. The purpose of this article is to analyze VHRD’s role in the crisis and the transition to a new era marked by further disruption and change. The Recommendation. This article provides a primer for understanding the environmental perspective of VHRD, analyzes reskilling and upskilling trends during the pandemic and for early stages of the fourth industrial revolution, and addresses learning, adaptation, cultural, workplace, and economic implications. We argue that many of the changes to the workplace were already underway, but the pandemic has accelerated transformation. For this reason, organizations must anticipate more digital transformation, strategize VHRD, and leverage learning assets to prepare for the future. The Stakeholders. This article is of interest to those helping their organizations to not only recover from crisis, but to thrive in a new era of work that is being fundamentally transformed by technology. The audience includes organizational leaders, HRD professionals, workers, scholars, as well as school personnel seeking to prepare learners for future career conditions.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF THE DETERMINANTS OF FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION ON COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE AND SUSTAINABILITY – A STUDY FOR MALAYSIAN SMES

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-289
Author(s):  
Dr Sreenivasan Jayashree ◽  
Chinasamy Agamudainambi Malarvizhi ◽  
Mohammad Nurul Hassan Reza
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Technical Innovation ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Inherent Difficulty ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Smart Technologies ◽  
The Impact

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) constitute one of the leading economic factors with strong consumer and stakeholder aspirations. The Fourth Industrial Revolution may also be defined as Industry 4.0, because it has evolved through automation and technical innovation that can transform products and manufacturing processes by real-time data integration, allowing consumers to be satisfied through customized products. It is important to examine the uniqueness of Industry 4.0 and the inherent difficulty in understanding the determinants, as most recent studies address the technological dimension of the concept. This study addresses the effect of the core determinants of Industry 4.0 in achieving sustainability as well as competitive advantage. The findings will serve to offer valuable insights for the SMEs to adopt smart technologies in the production system concerning Industry 4.0. This paper presents a conceptual model including hypotheses that can be tested further through a quantitative analysis.

scholarly journals The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the disruptive technologies: implications in work relations

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Carlos Massabni ◽  
Leiraud Hilkner De Souza
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Disruptive Technology ◽  
Work Relations ◽  
Disruptive Technologies ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Human Labor ◽  
Deductive Method ◽  
3D Printers ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Impact

This research covers an analysis of the essential aspects involving the Fourth Industrial Revolution, disruptive technologies and their consequences on work relations. Using literature reviews, analysing cases of companies that failed and others that remodeled themselves to survive the yearnings of the technological age, it was possible to obtain important results. The research was conducted in three parts: 1. historical contextualization guiding the reader on the main aspects and peculiarities of the Fourth Industrial Revolution; 2. definition, application and some examples of disruptive technologies; 3. confirmation of the impact of these technologies on work relations. The methods used were: hermeneutics, privileging theoretical studies and analysis of documents and texts and the deductive method, starting from existing laws and theories for the development of a logical reasoning to explain the central problem. Negative impacts of mass unemployment due to the replacement of human labor by highly technological machines cannot be stimated. These machines are part of what has been called disruptive technology, i.e., a product or innovative servant destabilizes competition, overcoming it in such a way that it promotes the rupture of existing models, ruining them. Professionals will be called to fill new jobs, with skills and competencies for Industry 4.0, whose interaction between man and machine will be essential. Use of big data in quality control, robots, fully automated vehicles, 3D printers in production lines, among other activities are examples of work demands.

Transformative Power of Smart Technologies Enabled by Advances in AI

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Anwar ul Haq ◽  
Asim Majeed ◽  
George D. Magoulas ◽  
Arshad Jamal
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Digital Marketing ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
New Era ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Marketing Models ◽  
Low Costs ◽  
Smart Technologies

The internet has transformed the landscape in the field of marketing and consumer behaviour in the last two decades, enabling unprecedented reach to the consumers for marketers, inducing low costs in general, providing opportunities to analyse interactions and facilitating the development of novel strategies in digital marketing. As the information age is maturing, it is entering a new era of the fourth industrial revolution where internet's reach is coupled with the smart technologies powered by AI, cloud-based scalable infrastructure, sensor infusion harvesting an ever greater amount of data. The consumer demands and preferences are ever more sophisticated. In this context, the digital marketing field will go through a period of tremendous change, where established norms and practices will no longer serve the purpose of attracting and engaging consumers. A thought experiment is discussed using a persona for the effectiveness of existing digital marketing models. Further, a concept of swarm marketing using AI has been also discussed.

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF COMPANIES: ESSENCE AND EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT OF IMPACT ON EFFICIENCY

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (195) ◽  
pp. 38-51
Author(s):  
E.P. Kochetkov ◽  
◽  
A.A. Zabavina ◽  
◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Current Economic Crisis ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Impact

In the context of the fourth industrial revolution and the development of digital technologies, their implementation in all areas of the economy has become a necessity. Currently, digital transformation as a set of measures to modernize the company's internal processes is becoming a key element on a highly competitive market and it is one of the few ways to survive. The current economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic has sharply demonstrated the need for digital transformation of business. In this regard, the problem of successful digital transformation has become a key issue for almost all companies in various sectors of the economy. The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of the digital transformation process of the business on its effectiveness. The theoretical analysis of the digital transformation process was used as a methodological basis. On the basis of statistical data and digital strategies of companies, an analysis of the reasons for the success and failure of such strategies implementation, as well as a correlation analysis of the main indicators of the company's performance and the process of its digitalization, is carried out. In the course of the study, the essence of the concept of company digital transformation is established, the key features of this process are identified and generalized, the main prerequisites for digital changes and their results are determined by the example of large multinational corporations – representatives of various sectors of the economy.

scholarly journals Disruptive technologies and the future of regulations - ICT regulatory structure(s) determined

De Jure ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mzukisi N Njontini
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Artificial Immune System ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Massive Data ◽  
Regulatory Structure ◽  
Artificial Immune ◽  
Disruptive Technologies ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Digitisation of information compels a revision of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and its associated technologies. This arises because 4IR technologies, for example, the Internet of Things (IoT), Big or Massive Data, Artificial intelligence (AI), augmented or virtual reality and machine learning, drastically adjust the manner in which an information society operates. Specifically, they present unprecedented opportunities for business, economy and online user or consumers. Furthermore, they profoundly model and re-model productions. As a result, the conventional lines between the physical, digital and biological spheres become imprecise. Given the extent of the transformation that 4IR technologies bring to society, it has become necessary to refer to them as the disruptive technologies. However, the inquiry is to what extent is the information society ready to take advantage of disruptive technologies and control some of the setbacks that emanate from therefrom? For regulatory purposes, how electronic or e-ready regulators are to control the adverse consequences that are associated with disruptive technologies? To address these questions, this paper discusses some of the selected theories for technology regulations (artificial immune system (AIS) theory and theory for Lex Informatica). The theories are not technology regulations, as such. Simply, they concede that technology regulations should encourage a proper scrutiny of the position of the technologies in the information society.

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