Webinar - Launch of the Digital Competencies Index (DCI) self-assessment tool and Roundtable on the challenges of digital transformation and digital skills

Online Event

Friday 5 Nov 2021
From 12PM To 1PM

In today's ever-changing competitive landscape, evolving technology is forcing organizations to rethink how they operate, reinvent themselves, and embrace digital transformation. However, it is essentially people, not technology, that are the key to successful digital transformations. In this context, it's essential for managers to understand and be able to assess their employees' digital skill levels, their readiness for change and the organization's digital culture.

During this webinar, the digital competencies self-assessment tool, developed through a partnership between ESG+ researchers, including Simon Bourdeau, and a team from Blue Cross with the collaboration of CIRANO and MEI (Ministère de l'Économie et de l'Innovation) was presented. This tool is now available for free. It is adapted to a simple and efficient use by organizations and allows to evaluate one's digital skills profile and to compare it with other respondents.

Find all the information on the digital competencies self-assessment tool

Benoit Aubert

Benoit A. Aubert is a Fellow at CIRANO and a professor of information technology at HEC Montréal (Canada). He has served as CEO of CIRANO, Dean of the Rowe School of Business at Dalhousie University (Canada), and Director of the School of Information Management and professor at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). Benoit Aubert’s main areas of research are risk management, outsourcing, offshoring, innovation, and business transformation.

He is currently co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems. He served as co-chair of the AMCIS 2025 conference. He served as program co-chair for AMCIS in 2021 and as co-chair of the economics and IS track for PACIS 2022. He co-chaired the outsourcing minitrack at the HICSS conference for ten years and served as Senior Editor of the journal Database for nine years. Benoit Aubert is a Distinguished Member – Cum Laude of the Association for Information Systems.

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Simon Bourdeau

CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 2012, Simon Bourdeau is a full professor in the Department of Analytics, Operations and Information Technology (AOTI) at the School of Management Sciences, Université du Québec à Montréal. He is also a member/researcher at GReSI (HEC Montréal). He teaches various courses in information technology and project management at ESG UQAM, and sits on various pedagogical and administrative committees.

Holder of a PhD in information technology from HEC Montréal, his research interests focus on: 1) Digital transformations, change management and digital skills, 2) Innovation, creativity and design, 3) Team dynamics - Diversity, resilience, adaptability, collaboration and conflict management, 4) Operational risks - Project management and cyber-risks and 5) LEGO Serious Play and complex problem solving.

Simon has been a certified Project Management Professional (PMI) since 2007, LEGO Serious Play Facilitator since 2013, Business Continuity Specialist since 2020 (Certificate of the Business Continuity Institute (CBCI) and Change Management Specialist and Prosci Certified Change.

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Mustapha Cheikh-Ammar

Assistant Professor in Information Systems at the Faculté des sciences de l’administration (FSA) and responsible for innovation and organizational transformation with IT, Université de Laval

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Cristina Cistellini

Cristina, Vice President HR, has been working in the Employee Experience area at National Bank for over 25 years. Her professional life is guided by the belief that making employees' lives better increases customer impact.

Cristina holds a Master's degree from ENAP in Organizational Development. Her career began as a trainer and continues in HR intervention. Her passion for people has led her to explore new ways of intervening in a constantly evolving work world.

Inspired by client approaches, for the past two years she has been in charge of the Employee Experience teams, whose mission is to imagine, design and bring to life the practices that will shape the work experience of the future, and to implement innovative approaches that put employees at the heart of the creation of this experience.

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