The Digital Transformation of Professions: A Roadmap for Remaining Trusted, Relevant, and Future-Ready

di Richard Busulwa (Autore)

Wahed Waheduzzaman (Autore)

Nandana Wasantha Pathiranage (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2026

Globally and across industries, professions are being reshaped by rapid advancements in digital technologies. From AI-powered diagnostic tools in healthcare to automated legal research systems and predictive financial platforms, the very foundations of professional expertise, value, and trust are evolving. Amid this change, one truth remains: professions that fail to adapt risk irrelevance. The Digital Transformation of Professions: A Roadmap for Remaining Trustes, Relevant, and Future-Ready offers a timely and essential roadmap for understanding and navigating the profound shifts underway in how professional work is organized, delivered, and governed. While digital disruption has challenged long-standing roles and business models, digital transformation represents a deeper opportunity: to reimagine how professionals create value, maintain public trust, and build new futures. This book explores how digital transformation manifests across every layer of professional life, from day-to-day professional roles, workflows and career pathways to governance structures, public confidence, and inter-professional boundaries. The book: Explains how advancements in digital technologies drive digital disruption of the professions and how digital transformation offers a deeper opportunity to reimagine professional roles, services, and value Unpacks how digital profession transformation manifests across all levels of a profession, from individual roles and workflows to governance structures, public trust, and institutional identity Discusses the new digital and/or digitally enhanced professional services, roles, workflows, and competencies that professionals must adopt to remain relevant and impactful Examines how professional bodies, educators, firms, and policymakers can support professionals in co-creating digitally capable and ethically grounded professions Identifies strategies and real-world examples of how professionals are adapting their identities, practices, and relationships in response to accelerating technological change Drawing on cutting-edge research and global examples, the book unpacks how professionals, firms, professional bodies, educators, and policymakers can co-create digitally capable, ethically grounded, and future-ready professions. Whether an educator, student, practitioner, professional leader, or policy adviser, any professional benefits from this book’s in-depth look at what’s changing, what’s at stake, what must be done, and viable strategies that can be and are being used to ensure professions continue to serve society in a digitally transformed world.

• Autore: Richard Busulwa, Wahed Waheduzzaman, Nandana Wasantha Pathiranage
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Anno: 2026
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 252 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 510 gr.
• EAN: 9781032998930

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