Diversity and Digitalization as Vital Key Success Factors for Individualisation of Learning

Abstract

Transformation means conversion, re-modelling, re-designs as well as changes and revisions. The four main fundamentals of transformation are transforming competitive strategy into strategic renewal, transforming organisational development into cultural dynamics, transforming R&D into social innovation, and transforming the functions of management. These characteristics prove that transformations have always been part of social development, but their dynamics are growing steadily (Schieffer & Lessem, 2009; pp.23-35).The peculiarity of the present epoch is that omnipresent transformations are superimposed by omnipresent digitization. If both are connected to one another, then the key driver is called digital transformation. It is the change of organisations by using and embedding the possibilities of digital support and services for the processes and functions of the organisation. Transformation and digitization are in a dialectical context. Transformations lead to a drive to rationalize with the help of digital technologies and media, which in turn lead to further transformations. The dynamics and complexity of change is currently so high that all stakeholders of the social developments have problems to cope with changes in the digital world.Enormous challenges are generated by the fast growth of the networks, the dynamic development of the social media and social relations, the huge increase of knowledge and work requirements, the dynamics of science and technology, the increased security in general and data protection in particular, etc. If all these things are to be reconciled, the result is an enormous diversity. But the control and mastering of the (digital) transformations require a rich understanding and appreciation of cultural, sectoral, societal, organisational, and individual differences and diversifications (Schieffer & Lessem, 2009). Transformations are always embedded into the social and cultural background of the actors.