Skills and competencies for digital transformation initiatives - Development of a model to identify relevant skills and competencies for a company's individual digital transformation roadmap

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to demonstrate the need for a structured method to identify skills and competencies that are required for a holistic digital transformation for a certain company in its particular environment. A framework called Transformation Compass, which includes all relevant business areas of an enterprise and where technology is seen as an enabler, serves as a starting point for the ascertainment of needed skills and competencies. The model developed as part of this research, named SkiCo (skills and competencies), maps the re-quired skills and competencies based on the categories of the Transformation Compass. On top of that, SkiCo structures skills and competencies in three dif-ferent levels: cluster, category, and sub-category and provides information about their origin.