Digital Leadership and Virtual Team Collaboration: Options and Success Factors for Industry 4.0

Digital leadership is one of the key factors for successful virtual team collaboration for Industry 4.0 and beyond. This chapter highlights Industry 4.0 conditions, such as volatility, uncertainty, change and ambiguity. It discusses key leadership approaches and identifies those that are the most relevant to virtual team collaboration under Industry 4.0 conditions, and beyond. After having read this chapter, you should know key leadership practices and qualities, and how they relate to successful virtual team collaboration, and you should be able to engage in informed leadership practices yourself, as a proactive virtual team leader and/or member who moves the team forward.