Regional Cluster Event Report: Belgium, 4 September 2014 [PDF 631 KB]
4 September 2014 from 8.30 h to 17.00 h
at
University of Antwerp - Antwerp Management School
Sint Jacobsmarkt 9
2000, Antwerp
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. It is hosted by the University of Antwerp - Antwerp Management School together with EuroCIO – The European CIO Association and CIOforum Belgium.
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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Chairperson:
Prof. Dr. Steven De Haes, University of Antwerp – Antwerp Management School | |
08:30 - 09:30 | Registration |
09:30 - 09:45 | Welcome and introduction
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09:45 - 10:05 | The European Commission activities from e-skills towards e-leadership skills
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10:05 - 10:30 | What is e-leadership? Why is it important?
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10:30 - 10:50 | ICT trends and their implications for e-leadership skills
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10:50 - 11:10 | Industry demand for e-leadership
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11:10 - 11:40 | Digital transformation through e-leadership – perspective of the CIO
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11:40 - 12:10 | Digital transformation through e-leadership – perspective of the business executive
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12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch and networking
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13:30 - 13:45 | e-Leadership - the European e-leadership education ecosystem
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13:45 - 14:15
14:15 - 15:00 | Towards European e-Leadership curriculum profiles and quality labels
e-Leadership curricula and programme demonstration
Demonstration of e-leadership curriculum: Executive Programme ‘Master in Information Management’
Demonstration of e-leadership curriculum: Executive ‘Master of Enterprise IT Architecture’
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15:00 – 16:00 | Plenary Discussion
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16:00 – 17:00 | Closure and networking
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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
Event Secretariat:
empirica GmbH
Oxfordstr. 2, 53111 Bonn, Germany
Inna Bludova: inna.bludova(at)empirica(dot)com
Werner B. Korte: Werner.korte(at)empirica(dot)com
Tel.: +49 228 98530-0
www.eskills-guide.eu
This initiative was launched by the European Commission DG Enterprise and Industry in January 2013