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Within the small.com project, Empowering Small Businesses for Sustainability with Digital Transformation, we have developed the "SMALL.COM” assessment tool, a digital transformation maturity survey that allows the respondent, on the one hand, to assess the digital maturity of their company either as CEO, manager, employee and entrepreneur and, on the other hand, to diagnose their digital knowledge, necessary to participate in a digital transformation process.
The questionnaire provides a feedback with scores for the 3 sections: (1) Business Enablers, a very technical part, not present if the person who fills in the questionnaire is a private; (2) Digital Human Skills and (3) Digital Human Soft Skills. This partition allows the user to analyse his digital maturity level in different areas.
In two months, we have already collected more than 200 answers and, just to share some data, the current statistics show that: (a) The age range of the respondents is wide: between 20 and 60 years with a higher percentage in the range 41-50 years (32%); (b) Respondents belong to various professions: managers (11%), entrepreneurs (29%), office workers (38%), private individuals (11%) and students (2%); (b) In general, we note a medium level of knowledge towards digital issues, but looking at the part of human digital skills in the cybersecurity field, we see greater insecurity with a lower level of knowledge. For example, we found that 30% of respondents don't know how to encrypt, password protect, or otherwise secure access to data when it's being sent or stored. The 24% don't know how to check if it's safe to provide personal data in a website and 15% don't know how to protect themselves from unwanted and malicious online encounters and materials.
All the information we are collecting is proving to be very useful for analysing what are the strengths and weaknesses of workers skills related to digital transformation, so as to be able to understand their real needs on the subject.
If you also want to test yourself and if you are curious to know your digital skills level, CLICK HERE and start the questionnaire!
The questionnaire is anonymous and it only takes about 20 minutes to complete. Your contribution is highly important to validate the “SMALL.COM” tool, as well as to assess the current state of digitalization processes within companies and to understand what the expectations could be.
For more information about the project and how to get involved, you can visit the project website here: https://www.smallcom.eu/.
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