Digital Fluency
Description
If you are curious about the basics of artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, and quantum computing as key enablers for digital transformation and innovation, Digital Fluency is your handy guide. The real-world applications of these cutting-edge technologies are expanding rapidly, and your daily life will continue to be affected by each of them. There is no better time than now to get started and become digitally fluent.
You need not have previous knowledge of these versatile technologies, as author Volker Lang will expertly guide you through this digital age. He illustrates key concepts and applications in numerous practical examples and more than 48 catchy figures throughout Digital Fluency . The end of each chapter presents you with a helpful implementation checklist of central lessons before proceeding to the next. This book gets to the heart of digital buzzwords and concepts, and tells you what they truly mean.
Breaking down topics such as automated driving and intelligent robotics powered by artificial intelligence, blockchain-based cryptocurrencies and smart contracts, drug development and optimization of financial investment portfolios by quantum computing, and more is imperative to being ready for what the future of industry holds. Whether your own digital transformation journey takes place within your private or public organization, your studies, or your individual household, Digital Fluency maps out a concrete digital action plan for all of your technology and innovation strategy needs.
What You Will Learn
- Gain guidance in the digital age without requiring any previous knowledge about digital technologies and digital transformation
- Get acquainted with the most popular current and prospective applications of artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, and quantum computing across a wide range of industries including healthcare, financial services, and the automobile industry
- Become familiar with the digital innovation models of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM, and other world-leading organizations
- Implement your own digital transformation successfully along the eight core dimensions of a concrete digital action plan
Who This Book Is For
Thought-leaders, business executives and industry strategists, management and strategy consultants, politicians and policy makers, entrepreneurs, financial analysts, investors and venture capitalists, students and research scientists, as well as general readers, who want to become digitally fluent.
Reviews / Votes
Digital Fluency describes in easy to understand words the fast pace of ongoing technology disruption. It offers valuable insights for practitioners and strategists through a unique combination of historic perspective, compelling technology insights and frameworks as well as a rich list of very insightful company use cases. Digital Fluency is a must read for decision-makers and employees within any public and private organization that hopes to navigate the challenges posed by digital transformation by leveraging digital technologies with clarity, structure and vision.
- Marcell Vollmer, Partner and Director at Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Digital Fluency provides readers with the strategic frameworks and practical advice they need to fully comprehend, manage, and shape the digital future ahead of us.
- Marco Iansiti, David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School (HBS)
Digital technologies are transforming our world with breath-taking speed. In a clearly written book that combines basic knowledge with practical applications, Volker Lang provides fascinating insights and valuable advice to guide corporations and individuals through the digital age. A compelling read for those of us who like to become fluent in digital innovation, strategy, and technology.
- Joachim Kraege, Head of Audi Consulting, Organisation and Leadership, Audi AG
If you are trying to make your organization fit for the 21st century, Digital Fluency is your ultimate guide. Enriched with numerous practical examples, valuable summaries and actionable frameworks, it provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the most exciting digital technologies of our time in one book. Whether you are a business leader, start-up entrepreneur, policy maker or student, Digital Fluency gives you everything you need to get ready for the exciting digital future that lies ahead of us.
-Rasmus Rothe, Founder of Merantix AG
In a tech world that is increasingly dominated by buzzwords, Digital Fluency will provide you with the necessary theoretical and practical background to make sense of digital key technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain and quantum computing. It will give today's business leaders a head start and is a top-priority read for anyone seeking to reshape our future by leveraging digital technologies.
- Jean-Luc Scherer, CEO and Founder of Innoopolis
At the dawn of the 4th industrial revolution, Volker Lang provides us with a forward-looking masterpiece that makes us all feel comfortable about the digital future. In Digital Fluency, students and professionals on the technical and business side will find valuable advice that will guide them on their transformative journey to their rightful place in the growing digital world. If you want to understand how artificial intelligence, blockchain and quantum computing continue to augment the human experience, then this excellent guidebook is for you.
- Greg Coquillo, LinkedIn 2020 Top Voice for AI and Data Science
By focusing on artificial intelligence, blockchain, quantum computing and their real-world applications, Volker Lang has written an immediately accessible book which will equip employees and leaders of businesses alike with the requisite confidence to effect digital transformations. I cannot recommend reading Digital Fluency enough.
- Vincent Anandraj, Managing Partner at Mynah Partners Ltd.
Digitization and digital transformation are the central topics of the 21st century. In his book, Volker Lang creates a fundamental understanding of the most important digital technologies and comprehensively describes their impact on industries and society. In the end, it becomes clear that no one can escape the future, but we all have an opportunity and obligation to shapeit. A book for everyone seeking orientation in the digital age.
- Christoph Bornschein, CEO and Founder of TLGG
Digital Fluency is an excellent introduction to future technologies beyond just buzzwords. Filled with numerous practical applications of digital technologies to your own line of work, it is highly recommended for all aspiring disruptors from students to seasoned executives.
- Michael Berns, Director for AI & FinTech at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
As an industry, we have managed to transition artificial intelligence (AI) from 'research' to a technology that is part of the lives of countless people around the world. And that is just the beginning! Digital Fluency provides excellent examples of how enterprises have embraced AI in a meaningful way.
- Ewa Dürr, Head of Product Strategy & Operations, Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence
Blockchain will like no other technology shape the years from 2020 to 2030. But it unfolds its true capabilities only in combination with other technologies. Digital Fluency provides an insightful introduction to exactly these key technologies constantly reshaping our world and presents a comprehensive overview of their potential applications. It promotes new digital thinking, skillfully inspires new applications and is therefore a compelling read for any leader.
- Philipp Sandner, Professor at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and Head of Frankfurt School Blockchain Center (FSBC)
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Dr. Volker Lang is an experienced digitalization expert with profound expertise and great enthusiasm for quantum computing, blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, and their applications for digital transformation. As a senior project manager and former management and strategy consultant working with Volkswagen Group, he has been leading various large-scale business transformations with focus on electrification, digitalization, and other future trends.
Volker is a trained quantum physicist, holds a doctorate from Oxford University and diploma in physics and nanotechnology from Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. He has attended the Oxford Blockchain Strategy Program at Saïd Business School and Disruptive Strategy at Harvard Business School, as well as the well-known machine learning program at Stanford University among other interdisciplinary training for business executives. His achievements were recognized by prestigious scholarships and international prizes, such as by Trinity College Oxford, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the German Physical Society, and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.
You can reach Volker on LinkedIn (dr-volker-lang) and at his digital innovation consulting services (DInnovators).