Building on Smart Cities Skills and Competences
Language: English
Published by Springer International Publishing Jul 2022, 2022
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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book provides insights on skills required to achieve success in smart cities from a variety of industry and human factors perspectives. It emphasizes the balance between learning skills, technical skills, and domain-specific skills in these industries, with special emphasis given to innovative software development models. The authors note that digital transformation requires complementary measures that are not overtly aimed to supportinfrastructure investment but are instead directed at promoting entrepreneurship, improving digital skills, engaging citizens, applying new transformation strategies, and developing innovative software. All of the above are considered strategically important, especially for medium-sized cities since that enablethem to be more competitive in the global economy. 352 pp. Englisch.
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- Title
- Building on Smart Cities Skills and Competences
- Author
- Panos Fitsilis
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing Jul 2022
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- Neu
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- Buch
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 3030978176
- ISBN 13
- 9783030978174
- Item weight
- 694 grams
- Dimensions
- 241x160x25 mm
This book provides insights on skills required to achieve success in smart cities from a variety of industry and human factors perspectives. It emphasizes the balance between learning skills, technical skills, and domain-specific skills in these industries, with special emphasis given to innovative software development models. The authors note that digital transformation requires complementary measures that are not overtly aimed to support infrastructure investment but are instead directed at promoting entrepreneurship, improving digital skills, engaging citizens, applying new transformation strategies, and developing innovative software. All of the above are considered strategically important, especially for medium-sized cities since that enable them to be more competitive in the global economy.
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About the Author
Professor Dr. Panos Fitsilis is a Full Professor at the Business Administration Department of the University of Thessaly, Greece. He has extensive project management experience with the development and deployment of large IT systems and extensive management experience in various senior management positions.
During his career, he has been responsible for the development, deployment, and operation of a number of prestigious IT systems for the European Commission, the European Parliament, multinational companies, etc. He has worked in more than 60 research or commercial IT projects, in various roles (programmer, project manager, quality engineer, business unit manager, consultant, reviewer).
He is the author of four books: “Contemporary Business Information Systems, 2nd edition”, “A practical guide to entrepreneurship – case studies”, “Software Project Management”, “Object-Oriented Development using UML” and the author of more than 100 papers published at scientific journals and international conferences. Recently, he coordinated the development effort, and he is one of the authors of the first internationally available book on “Smart Cities Body of Knowledge”.
Currently, he is a member of the working group for “Smart and Viable Cities” at Hellenic Standardization Organization, member of ITU initiative "United for Smart Sustainable Cities" (U4SSC), Greek National Representative in CEN/TC 428/WG 2 for “Competence, skills, knowledge, and roles”.
His research interests include smart cities, smart factories, business information systems, educational technology, software project management and agile methods, skills development, etc.
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