In the foreword to this book, a perception gap between ambitious digital experts and a much larger group of people in companies and organizations all over the world, who understand little of substance about digital transformation has been emphasized. Building on this, this chapter sheds some critical light on the role of management in the context of digital transformation.

Although this chapter may read as a presumptuous frontal attack on management floors, the author's reflections are in no way intended as such. Rather, it is about a subjectively honest analysis of the complex fabric of digital transformation. Studies and articles are often written about the future of work and how "leadership" should develop in the future. Often, however, one supposedly simple question remains unanswered: are today's leaders even qualified for the tasks of tomorrow? Learning belongs on the strategic agenda, because today and in the future only learning companies are ultimately able to deal with the complexity and volatility of our continually evolving (business) world. The learning company starts with management and includes the entire organization.

The handbook Digital Competence and Future Skills provides comprehensive insight into the future of competencies and learning and the transformation of business. For the first time, leading companies from a wide range of industries around the world provide concrete insights into their comprehensive approaches to transformation, competence management, culture change, and learning and development. In addition, leading scientists and institutions use the latest research findings to assess where we are today and what is to come in the future.

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Dr. Philipp Ramin is a leading expert on digital transformation and future skills. With his company the Innovation Center for Industry 4.0 in Regensburg, Germany, which he founded whilst completing his Ph.D. on the topic of discontinuous innovation and digital business models, he trains more than 200,000 employees in 9 languages for leading companies from a wide range of industrial, business and financial sectors in more than 14 countries worldwide and has prepared a number of internationally recognized studies, for example on digitalization, artificial intelligence, digital competence. The Innovation Center for Industry 4.0 team, which was also instrumental in realizing this book, develops individual qualification solutions in the area of digitalization and Industry 4.0 for leading companies worldwide, including complete continuing education curricula and learning strategies as well as AR/VR solutions or complete digital online learning systems and competence management programs.
In 2022, together with one of his clients in the automotive sector, Philipp Ramin's company was awarded the recognized "Project of the Year" eLearning Award for Instructional Design by Germany's leading publisher in this field, elearning Journal for a state-of-the art digital competence upskilling program with high acceptance, artificial intelligence supported gamification elements and proven and measured acceleration of the transformation process.