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Future Skill Requirements for a Blockchain-Enabled Automotive Supply Chain

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2022)

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As blockchain technology is emerging, technology intensive sectors are realizing the potential of blockchain and are starting to implement it into their day-to-day business operations. With its decentralized distribution, secure verification through public-private-key cryptography and its immutability, blockchain technology can improve and shape the future of automotive supply chains, one of them being parts traceability and visibility along the automotive supply chain. Besides getting businesses technically set up for BC integration, businesses need to have employees with skillsets applicable for and useful to blockchain technology (BCT). Through secondary research and expert interviews, this article elaborates on exactly what the needed skills will be. However, in order to successfully implement BCT, businesses need to revisit their current employee skills and plan ahead for changes/adaptions in future skills in demand.

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The CHAISE project is financially supported by the European Commission in the Erasmus+ Program under the project number 621646-EPP-1-2020-1-FR-EPPKA2-SSA-B. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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    Jana Faschinger-Sanborn & Michael Reiner

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    Jana Faschinger-Sanborn, Andreas Riel & Michael Reiner

  3. Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, G-SCOP, 38000, Grenoble, France

    Andreas Riel

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Faschinger-Sanborn, J., Riel, A., Reiner, M. (2022). Future Skill Requirements for a Blockchain-Enabled Automotive Supply Chain. In: Yilmaz, M., Clarke, P., Messnarz, R., Wöran, B. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1646. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15559-8_18

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