Are Future Project Managers Ready for a Digitalized World?

Abstract

The Fourth Industrial Revolution has changed the way organizations do their business, resulting in highly digitalized business environment and making digital competences as one of most needed in the future. The purpose of the study was to establish the proficiency level of the future project managers' digital competences. The study design included using self-assessment tool and targeting undergrads and grads students in field of project management. The results showed that respondents are at advanced level of digital competences and that there is no difference between gender, level of education, previous field of study for grad students or academic achievements. The best results are in area of information and literacy, while most challenging is safety. Future research should include verification of the results using tools to examine digital competences specifically needed for project managers working in digitalized environment. The results of this study could be useful to both academics and practitioners, especially in upgrading current teaching program and developing skills which are needed in labor market.