The Digital Transformation of Professions: A Roadmap for Remaining Trusted, Relevant, and Future-Ready - Tapa blanda

Busulwa, Richard; Waheduzzaman, Wahed; Pathiranage, Nandana Wasantha

 
9781032998930: The Digital Transformation of Professions: A Roadmap for Remaining Trusted, Relevant, and Future-Ready
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ISBN 10: 1032998938 ISBN 13: 9781032998930
Editorial: Routledge, 2026

Sinopsis

Globally and across industries, professions are being reshaped by rapid advancements in digital technologies. From AI-powered diagnostic tools in healthcare to automated legal research systems and predictive financial platforms, the very foundations of professional expertise, value, and trust are evolving. Amid this change, one truth remains: professions that fail to adapt risk irrelevance.

The Digital Transformation of Professions: A Roadmap for Remaining Trustes, Relevant, and Future-Ready offers a timely and essential roadmap for understanding and navigating the profound shifts underway in how professional work is organized, delivered, and governed. While digital disruption has challenged long-standing roles and business models, digital transformation represents a deeper opportunity: to reimagine how professionals create value, maintain public trust, and build new futures. This book explores how digital transformation manifests across every layer of professional life, from day-to-day professional roles, workflows and career pathways to governance structures, public confidence, and inter-professional boundaries. The book:

  • Explains how advancements in digital technologies drive digital disruption of the professions and how digital transformation offers a deeper opportunity to reimagine professional roles, services, and value
  • Unpacks how digital profession transformation manifests across all levels of a profession, from individual roles and workflows to governance structures, public trust, and institutional identity
  • Discusses the new digital and/or digitally enhanced professional services, roles, workflows, and competencies that professionals must adopt to remain relevant and impactful
  • Examines how professional bodies, educators, firms, and policymakers can support professionals in co-creating digitally capable and ethically grounded professions
  • Identifies strategies and real-world examples of how professionals are adapting their identities, practices, and relationships in response to accelerating technological change

Drawing on cutting-edge research and global examples, the book unpacks how professionals, firms, professional bodies, educators, and policymakers can co-create digitally capable, ethically grounded, and future-ready professions. Whether an educator, student, practitioner, professional leader, or policy adviser, any professional benefits from this book’s in-depth look at what’s changing, what’s at stake, what must be done, and viable strategies that can be and are being used to ensure professions continue to serve society in a digitally transformed world.

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Acerca del autor

Richard Busulwa (PhD, MBA, B.Info.Sys) is a senior lecturer and researcher in the Business School at Swinburne University of Technology, home to Australia’s first fully immersed Industry 4.0 facility. His digital transformation research explores different digital technology advancements, how they drive disruption, and their implications for particular industries, business functions, and professions. He is the author of Strategy Execution and Complexity: Thriving in the Era of Disruption (Routledge), Start-up Accelerators: A Field Guide (Wiley), Digital Transformation and Hospitality Management (Routledge), and Digital Transformation in Accounting (Routledge). Before entering academia, Richard worked as a managing director, COO, CFO, middle manager, and frontline manager. He is the co-founder of Digital Keys, the world’s first NBIoT smart lock platform.

Wahed Waheduzzaman (PhD, MBA) researches and teaches in HRM and organization studies. His major research interests include human resource management, public service management, local government, sustainable development goals, corporate governance, and stakeholders engagement. He has published several books, peer-reviewed articles in various journals and international conferences. He has been a guest editor with Administrative Sciences and recently published book: “MGMT5: Introduction to Management,” 5th Asia-Pacific Edition (Cengage Publishers).

Nandana Wasantha Pathiranage (PhD, MBA, CA) researches and teaches accounting and finance at Swinburne University of Technology. Nandana primarily uses quantitative and case study research methods. His research has been published in several grant-funded research reports as well as highly ranked international accounting, finance, and management journals. Further, he has published a research method case study (2023) with SAGE publishers.

De la contraportada

Owing to ongoing and accelerating digital technology advancements, many professions are undergoing unprecedented digital disruption. This book prepares professionals and students by showing them how to digitally transform, and what actions they can take to adapt to the coming change.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2026
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1032998938
ISBN 13 
9781032998930
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
274
Contacto del fabricante
Routledge
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