Progress in IS

The disruptive power of digital change is a major challenge for knowledge-based value creation worldwide. The transformation toward a digitized economy and society deeply changes how we manage information and knowledge, how we connect, collaborate, learn, and decide within and across organizations. While digitalization offers new opportunities for disruptive renewal, knowledge workers, managers, and organizations will have to recreate their governance, leadership, innovation, knowledge, and learning processes and practices as well as their work organization. New business models and digitally enabled co-creation emerge, requiring new ways of managing knowledge. The “Knowledge ladder 4.0” is the guiding conceptual model of this publication.