e-Leadership is of crucial importance for companies and industry to excel in their business operation. For effective e-leadership, the skills required are seen as those which enable people with very strong ICT skills to lead qualified staff from ICT and other disciplines towards identifying and designing business models and exploiting key innovation opportunities. Their success is defined as making best use of developments in ICT and delivering value to their organizations.
Demand is growing throughout European industry to improve the quality of e-leadership, covering organisation leadership in ICT innovation to deliver business value. Research has confirmed a significant shortage of e-leadership skills across Europe - a call for action.
The European Commission e-Leadership initiative focuses on the leadership needs of top decision-makers and professional leaders at larger enterprises. These leaders oversee portfolios of both well-defined and emergent innovation opportunities. Successful design and implementation requires developing and engaging highly qualified staff to achieve the target value.

The European Commission initiative found that closing the e-leadership skills gap requires a range of educational ecosystem actions. In particular it needs strong collaboration of demand and supply stakeholders to create new educational offers. Pilot work shows that this leads to innovative and relevant content for e-leadership curricula.
The present event is one of ten regional events organised by the European Commission across Europe together CIGREF as the host.

The objectives of the event are to:

• Inform stakeholders keen to promote innovation through e-Leadership.
• Communicate the e-leadership Curriculum Profile and quality label approach
• Disseminate lessons from pilot developments
• Guide education institutions to develop e-leadership programmes
• Encourage employers to make use of e-leadership programme offerings.

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This event is targeted at innovative employers, current and aspiring e-leaders, professional associations, universities and business schools as well as policy-makers interested in promoting digital innovation. Due to the need to balance the stakeholder groups, final acceptance of participation is by personal invitation.  Acceptance will be confirmed within two weeks of registration. There is no charge to attend the event. Anyone expressing an interest will be sent a link to the outputs of this event.

Please register your interest at the following weblink:

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e-Leadership Flyer
You can obtain background research on this topic by accessing a pamphlet at the following web site: www.eskills-guide.eu

Local organiser:
CIGREF
Contact: Frédéric Lau
Phone.: +33 6 86 68 90 20 / +33 1 56 59 70 18
flu(at)cigref(dot)fr

Event Secretariat
for all European Regional Cluster Events on ‘New Curricula for e-Leadership’:

empirica GmbH
Oxfordstr. 2, 53111 Bonn, Germany
Mira Zöller: mira.zoeller(at)empirica(dot)com
Werner B. Korte: Werner.korte(at)empirica(dot)com
Phone.: +49 228 98530-0
www.eskills-guide.eu

Event language
The conference language will be English.

Fees
The registration for this event is free.

Catering
The conference will start on 6 November 2014 with a welcome coffee and refreshments.
A walking dinner will take place at 12:40 at the event venue.