Thomas Lim is a public service coach with Thrive Consulting and the dean of Thrive Academy. Many companies today have embraced digital as part of their work and digitalization, and it is a priority on management's agenda. Yet, with the rapid advancement in technology, the level of innovation is at a frenzied rate and growing exponentially. Technology development in the Internet of Things that enables everyday objects to be connected, sensor technologies, artificial intelligence and machine learning have added to the confluence of technologies. Together with blockchain, high-speed mobile, virtual worlds and augmented reality, these have the potential to create unprecedented digital maelstroms.

In this post I will describe on an abstract level what "digital leadership" in my view means, about the concrete "how does this work" then later more. On Wikipedia one finds: "Digital leadership is a scientific approach to the definition of the tasks and tools of leadership in times of digitization in general and in phases of transformation into a digital company in particular". On how and what impact digitization has on the topic of leadership, one then reads the approaches that you know from agile leadership: participation, delegation, empowerment, networks, network organizations, experimentation, lifelong learning, team orientation and purpose. I always get suspicious when you get clear answers or trends to complex problems. My view on the subject is a little more nuanced.

During 2020-2021, Finland will provide European citizens with free access to an online course named'The Elements of AI'. The initiative, which aims to offer EU citizens free training in future skills, was made public in Brussels on 10 December 2019, in the margins of the meeting of the EU employment ministers. The course, already published in Finnish, English, Swedish and Estonia, will be made available in all the official EU languages soon, informed the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment. This initiative by the Finnish Presidency aims to respond to the challenges posed by the transformation of work and to reinforce the digital leadership of the EU. 'The Elements of AI' is a series of free online courses created by the University of Helsinki and the Finnish tech company Reaktor.