Autor: Gerrit Sames

Employees, machines and products get connected: the 4th Industrial Revolution has begun [1]. This is a central statement on the homepage of the German „Plattform Industrie 4.0“. Meanwhile the basic ideas started to move from the shopfloor level to the level of business processes and business models. In consequence it was detected pretty early, that digitization will affect the employees and their qualification and tasks in the companies; the term Work 4.0 evolved. The following contribution emphasizes the systematization of qualifications. A new model will be displayed, that helps to bring transparency to the distribution of qualification in companies. The useability of the model is verified in two case studies. The model is a practicable instrument for companies to gain a realistic view to the upcoming challenges of the shift of qualification due to digitization.

There is hardly any day without publishing news on digitization and industry 4.0 and their respective necessity. Risks and shortcomings of IT-security are as well current topics. The striking question on management level is, where is my company regarding IT-security? How can we get a guiding light into the complexity of all related terms? This article is an outcome of research activities at the University of Applied Sciences Middlehesse. It is meant to support management to identify the actual status of IT-security and identify possible shortfalls. Based on a maturity grade model IT-security is described by six aspects with five levels each. This will help to point out room for improvements