Is believed to be the result of the individuals’ continuous struggle to maintain an appropriate balance between the unrivalled benefits offered by taking care of the planet, so that the planet will take care, in turn, of the people, and individuals and organizations amplified desire to ensure economic growth, seek financial stability, and evolve with the aid of advanced digital technologies, in order to make the most of the benefits and the opportunities that the Post-COVID-19 Era are due to be brought in terms of the incredible amount of information due to be processed, encoded, and valued as knowledge, the world’s business environment and the newest digital trends, the digital transformation of the local and the international markets, the competitive landscape, the rapid response of the entities’ human resources (HR) facing the perspective of the artificial intelligence (AI) today and in the future.
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Legendary, Life-Changing, and Memorable Benefits of Digitalization to Restart the Economy: Impact of COVID-19 on Global Economic Environment for Sustainable Development
Cristina Raluca Gh. Popescu (University of Bucharest, Romania) and Arturo Luque González (Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Ecuador & Observatorio Euromediterráneo de Espacio Público y Democraca, Ecuador)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5109-0.ch008
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic and COVID-19 crisis suddenly, abruptly accentuated both individual and business needs to move at an accelerated rate to digital activities like never before in history of mankind, which led to increased importance of digitalization in terms of use of digital technologies. The post-COVID-19 era seeks to create novel communication patterns and business models capable to ensure new revenue and value-producing benefits and opportunities in accordance to the Sustainable Development Goals by launching tremendous provocations on global economic environment for sustainable development: How can people and entities adapt, implement digitalization in their daily lives, in order to restart the economy? What will the world's digital business transformation roadmap look like, in order to find a balance between individuals' expectations and planet's needs? Will the digital skills transformation enhance the role of human resources in society, or will these new acquired skills create an even larger gap between people than ever before? Is artificial intelligence the future?