Table 3 Strategies to face challenges of...

Table 3

Strategies to face challenges of digital transformation

Key challenges	Pillars	Strategic fields of action	Strategic actions
Developing and updating digital skills within companies, public administration and organisations in the education industry	Culture and skills	Digital education	To promote digitalisation learning paths from the fourth year of primary school and to offer digital literacy courses to everyone
			To develop digital lifelong learning programs
			To create digital educational platforms
			To invest in e-learning
		Talents	To encourage talented and skilled workers to return, stay or transfer within the region by offering them perspectives
			To stimulate female students in the STEM professions
			To accompany towards new jobs, such as smart working
		Digital culture	To break down resistance to digitalisation through transparency-oriented behaviour
			To invest in reverse mentoring
			To create a “digital fit”
			To develop new digital business models through a far-sighted mentality
Continuously adapting to new digital technologies with cutting-edge infrastructures and services	Infrastructures and technologies	Information	To create fast networks by extending gig broadband and 5G and to implement infrastructures in the valleys and rural areas
			To create fast, reliable and secure networks that are able to protect data and guarantee the security of interconnected devices and their users
			To exploit the advantages of big data in SMEs
			To invest in e-government
		Interaction	To use collaborative robots (cobots) as helpers of human work
			To invest in autonomous production by developing AI
			To share data and knowledge
			To create barrier-free mobility
		AI	To define a strategic agenda in collaboration between stakeholders and AI experts from different sectors
			To use AI as a game changer in the analysis and use of big data
			To politically support AI development and to ensure the deployment of the potential of these technologies
			To invest in customer relations through AI
Developing synergies of medium- to long-term and innovative technological solutions involving different stakeholders of the public and private industry	Ecosystems	Medium- to long-term vision	To promote digital change as a continuous process
			To encourage citizens' involvement
			To leverage divergent thinking and diversity of opinions
			To operate in the direction of venture capital
		Partnerships	To develop digital campuses
			To encourage the networking of digital talents, start-up incubators, investors and scientists by exploiting start-ups
			To promote public–private partnerships
			To define the digital strategy in terms of open innovation
		Life quality	To leverage regional life quality
			To lower the cost of living in the macro-region
			To promote digital and sustainable solutions in all industries
			To generate virtuous improvement mechanisms in the area by supporting medium- to long-term sustainability policies

Key challenges	Pillars	Strategic fields of action	Strategic actions
Developing and updating digital skills within companies, public administration and organisations in the education industry	Culture and skills	Digital education	To promote digitalisation learning paths from the fourth year of primary school and to offer digital literacy courses to everyone
			To develop digital lifelong learning programs
			To create digital educational platforms
			To invest in e-learning
		Talents	To encourage talented and skilled workers to return, stay or transfer within the region by offering them perspectives
			To stimulate female students in the STEM professions
			To accompany towards new jobs, such as smart working
		Digital culture	To break down resistance to digitalisation through transparency-oriented behaviour
			To invest in reverse mentoring
			To create a “digital fit”
			To develop new digital business models through a far-sighted mentality
Continuously adapting to new digital technologies with cutting-edge infrastructures and services	Infrastructures and technologies	Information	To create fast networks by extending gig broadband and 5G and to implement infrastructures in the valleys and rural areas
			To create fast, reliable and secure networks that are able to protect data and guarantee the security of interconnected devices and their users
			To exploit the advantages of big data in SMEs
			To invest in e-government
		Interaction	To use collaborative robots (cobots) as helpers of human work
			To invest in autonomous production by developing AI
			To share data and knowledge
			To create barrier-free mobility
		AI	To define a strategic agenda in collaboration between stakeholders and AI experts from different sectors
			To use AI as a game changer in the analysis and use of big data
			To politically support AI development and to ensure the deployment of the potential of these technologies
			To invest in customer relations through AI
Developing synergies of medium- to long-term and innovative technological solutions involving different stakeholders of the public and private industry	Ecosystems	Medium- to long-term vision	To promote digital change as a continuous process
			To encourage citizens' involvement
			To leverage divergent thinking and diversity of opinions
			To operate in the direction of venture capital
		Partnerships	To develop digital campuses
			To encourage the networking of digital talents, start-up incubators, investors and scientists by exploiting start-ups
			To promote public–private partnerships
			To define the digital strategy in terms of open innovation
		Life quality	To leverage regional life quality
			To lower the cost of living in the macro-region
			To promote digital and sustainable solutions in all industries
			To generate virtuous improvement mechanisms in the area by supporting medium- to long-term sustainability policies

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