In the digital age, the necessary “skills” are changing as fast as technology.
The real goal is “competence”, the mix of mindset, knowledge, and critical thinking to understand how and why to use tools strategically.
While this is the foundation of true organizational resilience, competence cannot be installed like a software update, it must be rather built into your culture.
A culture of competence promotes adaptability and efficiency, and is founded on the following pillars:
- Curiosity & Safety: Teams must feel safe to experiment and ask tough questions. Innovation requires the safety to fail, learn and relearn,
- Integrated security: Competence means that every employee understands why security matters, turning your staff from the weakest link into a human firewall,
- Adaptive leadership: Leaders must shift their behavior from “Who to blame?” to “What did we learn, and how we will adapt?”
How Project EAGLE champions
Our participation in Project EAGLE (https://projecteagle.eu/), co-funded by the Digital Europe Programme (Project No: 101100660) of the European Union, is central to our mission.
Project EAGLE does not present another training catalog, it brings together universities, business associations, and industry experts like Vernian, and provides the foundations for competence. The courses delivered by our academic partners in areas like cybersecurity, data analysis, and blockchain are designed to provide SMEs and their staff the confidence to think and act strategically.
The project empowers professionals to:
- Ask the right questions about new technologies,
- Identify strategic opportunities for their own function and business,
- Build a common language of innovation and security.
Project EAGLE is an initiative that helps create a competent, resilient, and adaptive culture in SMEs that form the backbone of the European economy.
A team with “skills” has map to follow today’s map, while a “competent and resilient” organization can draw its own map and follow its own path.
Our participation in projects like EAGLE allows us to support our stakeholders move beyond training sessions to build the lasting, adaptive digital resilience that will define their success.