Education 4.0 and the need for Competitive Intelligence in University management
Education 4.0 and the need for Competitive Intelligence in University management

Summary/Abstract: Unprecedented challenges determined by globalization and the booming development brought by Industrial Revolution 4.0 determine changes that impose a redrafting of skills and abilities requirements necessary on the job market. “Education 4.0” will have the role to provide a new set of such capabilities, but also train adequate attitudes in a super technological and interconnected environment in which new technologies focus on innovation, on identifying and promoting talents, on the capacity to understand and interconnect information from various fields in order to find innovative solutions, on the capacity to adapt to different cultural environments or to work remotely in virtual teams, and the higher education is the most important supplier of highly qualified personnel who is fit to integrate quickly in the Industrial Revolution. In order to do this, we need to reset the academic and administrative management of the educational institutions. They have to understand that their role in the context created by Industry 4.0 is similar to that of a “company with innovative technology” regardless of the area it forms and develops skills. A competitive intelligence type of approach in education and university management would respond to the challenges and would offer instruments for collecting, processing and capitalization of useful information in their ascent in the top of international elite universities but, most importantly, would connect and function in tandem with the new technological generation and society.

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