by Roman Gaida (Head of Division EMEA, Mitsubishi Electric)
from the handbook Digital Competence and Future Skills

Particularly in a world, in which the shortage of skilled people is increasingly becoming a challenge for companies, it is important to identify, promote and retain talent. This is done through the perception of the person, who leads the team, the identification of future perspectives, the joint development of competencies and the firm integration into the team. This book chapter describes the implementation of digital transformation at Mitsubishi Electric Europe CNC. The company has found a sustainable as well as a successful way for doing business successfully in the VUCA world as well as being ready for the future. At the same time, the cultural transformation is neither complete nor over. The new team understanding is the core of every days collaboration. It needs to be actively shaped each day and attention needs to be paid to upholding the team's values. Living a new culture includes constantly questioning current decisions and dynamics, such as interactions, and changing or adopting them, if necessary.

The handbook Digital Competence and Future Skills provides comprehensive insight into the future of competencies and learning and the transformation of business. For the first time, leading companies from a wide range of industries around the world provide concrete insights into their comprehensive approaches to transformation, competence management, culture change, and learning and development. In addition, leading scientists and institutions use the latest research findings to assess where we are today and what is to come in the future.

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Wirt.-Ing. Roman Gaida, MBA, (39, and a father of twins) is Head of EMEA at Mitsubishi Electric CNC Europe B. V. Former Machine Tool Operator now Tech Leader in a Fortune 500 company with over 23 years of professional experience combined with entrepreneurial thinking and a strong ability for customer needs, leadership and cultural change. Before starting in this position in April 2018, Roman was Head of Sales& Marketing Europe and was responsible for all of the divisions European sales and marketing activities, including the Middle East and South Africa.

Prior to joining Mitsubishi Electric, Roman was Global Business Development and Segment Manager for Oerlikon and was responsible for all business development activities of the Nitriding Business of Precision Component worldwide. Roman earned an MBA from RWTH Aachen and St. Gallen University, and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Industrial Engineering.

He is an experienced leader in post-merger and change management processes on a global scale. Identify, develop and hiring talents is one of his key skills. He is keynote speaker and author (Campus Verlag) but also a frequent guest in podcasts and magazines (e.g Xing New Work Stories Podcast, Harvard Business Manager Magazine, Digikompetenz Podcast) for the topics leadership, digital& cultural transformation and how to combine family and career.
Dr. Philipp Ramin is a leading expert on digital transformation and future skills. With his company the Innovation Center for Industry 4.0 in Regensburg, Germany, which he founded whilst completing his Ph.D. on the topic of discontinuous innovation and digital business models, he trains more than 200,000 employees in 9 languages for leading companies from a wide range of industrial, business and financial sectors in more than 14 countries worldwide and has prepared a number of internationally recognized studies, for example on digitalization, artificial intelligence, digital competence. The Innovation Center for Industry 4.0 team, which was also instrumental in realizing this book, develops individual qualification solutions in the area of digitalization and Industry 4.0 for leading companies worldwide, including complete continuing education curricula and learning strategies as well as AR/VR solutions or complete digital online learning systems and competence management programs.
In 2022, together with one of his clients in the automotive sector, Philipp Ramins company was awarded the recognized "Project of the Year" eLearning Award for Instructional Design by Germanys leading publisher in this field, elearning Journal for a state-of-the art digital competence upskilling program with high acceptance, artificial intelligence supported gamification elements and proven and measured acceleration of the transformation process.