Automation looks into the hellmouth of qualification

Götz-Andreas Kemmner

A simple graphic has been haunting my thoughts for weeks: A D superimposed on a C; both drawn with a loose hand on a flipchart. What looks so harmless has explosive significance.

The graphic is intended to illustrate how the need for qualifications in companies will change drastically as a result of increasing automation.

The graphic is intended to illustrate how the need for qualifications in companies will change drastically as a result of increasing automation.

My colleague, Prof. Sames, drew this curve a few weeks ago at a working group meeting. It is easy to understand what he was trying to say: Today, the qualification structure in a typical production company looks like a D.


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Prof. Dr. Andreas Kemmner
Prof Dr Kemmner is Co-CEO of the Abels & Kemmner Group and has carried out well over 200 national and international projects in 30 years of consulting work in supply chain management and restructuring and was the only publicly appointed expert for the profitability assessment of industrial companies in Germany for over 10 years. In 2012, he was appointed Honorary Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management by the WHZ. The results of his projects have already received several awards.
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