About Industry 4.0 Concept

The concept around the fourth industrial revolution was popularised by Klaus Schwab, founder of World Economic Forum. As computer’s and Internet’s complexity has increased so have new possibilities, connected to optimisation, automation and actual industrial digitalisation arisen.

The use of smart technology is gradually becoming more common in whitecollar jobs. Smart algorithms can, for example, support a lawyer or an accountant with work that earlier required a large amount of effort.

Leadership though is often stuck in structures inherited from the third industrial generation. Agile leadership has often been heralded as a general solution to the problem of the conflict between old structures and a new reality. But can agile leadership really handle the difficult problems that increasingly affect organisations?