Aim and goals

– Some starting points

We have been talking about the 4th industrial revolution and its effect of companies for a long time.

In the last year the EU has presented a vision of 5th generation industry, and this has been agreed and is a part of the green deal. This is a vision that will have great importance for leaders of the future.

Previously discussions have mainly concerned technology and manufacturing. Now we can see that the view of the 4th and 5th industrial revolutions increasingly involves society as a whole. It encompasses business as a whole, public sector organisations and society. Everything from semi-conductor factories to PR agencies, care homes and education. Everything is included in the 5th generation.

The question is how will leadership develop given these conditions? These are conditions that no one can escape from. Is the leader of the future an AI-robot who can make all the right decisions with correct ethics and good morals? Hard coded as if taken from an Asimov or Black Mirror story?

In this report we try to synthesise and describe how the leadership of the future in Industry 4.0 and 5.0 will be affected. We have based this report on research, analyses and informed speculation about the future.

Method

Method

We have used three primary sources in this report:

• Meta study: In this report we have used around 50 published scientific documents and reports.

• Interviews: We have interviewed people with expertise in the Leadership of the Future.

• Big data: We have used the system Q-Ball that contains data from 3.5 billion web sites. By using text analysis and AI we have been able to identify trends and attitudes in the material.