Assignment 14

Digital learning: Developing skills for digital transformation

of organizations

Introduction
This study talks about how Digital learning can be a driver for skills development to potentiate
organizations' digital transformation. The main research problem is to identify the skills needed to
promote organizations digital transformation

Questions like :-

 What are the skills developed through digital learning for organizations' digital
transformation?
 What are the contexts of corporate digital learning to develop skills for organizations' digital
transformation?
 What are the perceptions of individuals regarding the digital transformation challenges
faced by organizations?
 What are the opportunities for new disruptive business that emerge from the digital
transformation?
 What the latest trends of skills to be developed?

have helped to operationalize this research analysing the many ways in which digital learning can
take place. A wide range of practices and various dimensions of digital learning, such as participants,
learning contexts, learning processes, learning facilitators, framed by factors as intention,
consciousness, and expectations which can conditionate the outcomes of the learning process and
how they can contribute to effective the organization's digital transformation.

Theoretical Frameworks
1. Digital Learning : Digital learning is a complex phenomenon linked with many different
interpretations of the existing literature. They describe digital learning as an unplanned and
implicit process with unpredictable results using several technological devices like
smartphones, tablets, computers, etc.

2. Digital Transformation : Digital has transformed organizations, and this change has brought
about new circumstances in which many organizations struggle to cope: new and emerging
customer segments, cultural diversity in a global marketplace, market volatility, raised
customer expectations about the quality of products and services, and the impact of the
internet on an organization’s core business In the job market, there has been a growth in
higher-level jobs such as managerial and professional positions that require flexibility and
problem-solving skills.
3. New Trends : Skills development is perceived as a strategic management tool to cope with
the current business environment, mainly because of the market has changed from one of
 mass production to one of customization where quality, price, and speed of delivery are
stressed, and industries have a new reconfiguration to face the challenges of digital
transformation and industry 4.0.

Research Methodology
This methodology was used to analyse the presence of skills
associated with the following expression ‘‘corporate digital learning
skills’’, and the period considered was between 2013 and 2018. The
number of articles to analyse is 38 after all the criteria have been
satisfied. The survey was conducted through LinkedIn, a professional
network, and the sample is 127 individuals.

 Hypothesis 1 : There is a significant difference between

perceived challenges faced by organizations and
opportunities for new disruptive businesses.
 Hypothesis 2 : There is a significant difference between
perceived challenges faced by organizations and the new
trend of skills.
 Hypothesis 3 : There is a significant difference between
opportunities for new disruptive businesses and the recent
trend of skills.

Results
Primary impacts expected from the increasingly widespread use of technology in the context of
industry are: reduced labour costs, greater flexibility and reduced delivery time for products to the
market, of dangerous tasks, productivity growth, higher quality products; safer surgeries and better
quality of life for the elderly and people with disabilities; new challenges in terms of employment
and education and the nature of work, manufacturing (notably robotics), analysis of large amounts
of data, creation of new products and services, and changes in the way companies and other
organizations structure themselves.

 There is a low level of a positive correlation between Perceived challenges faced by

organizations and Opportunities for new disruptive business, New trends of skills.
 There is a negative relationship between Perceived challenges faced by organizations and
Organizations Digital Transformation
 There is a strong positive correlation between Opportunities for new disruptive business and
New trends of skills, Organizations Digital Transformation.
 The negative perceptions in the Organizational Digital Transformation need to be overcome
with new opportunities and adopt new skills development trends.

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