Digitalization, change and transformation in business and professional life

The transformative impact of technological developments on business and work styles is clear. It is known that with the great industrial revolution, production methods and relationships changed entirely, resulting in profound social transformations. In the era we are currently in, a significant process of change is taking place in business and professional life, and consequently in production methods and relationships, alongside computer-based digital technologies. Especially today, with artificial intelligence being integrated into the process, while changes are observed in existing business and professional fields, new business and professional areas are also developing.

In these days, when university candidates are choosing their programs and professions, it is observed that discussions in this direction have gained intensity and momentum. There are many questions on their minds. Are some professions that have been popular until now losing their importance? What are the popular professions of the future? With the new technologies involved in the process, especially with artificial intelligence, which professions will become more respected?

These and similar questions are confusing the minds of candidates who are at the doors of universities. They are curious about the future status, social positioning, employment area, and therefore the validity of the profession they have ideally determined. Some are quite indecisive and anxious. Candidates who want to focus on the field of social sciences are especially more anxious. After all, if the professions, business areas, and work styles of the future develop under the influence of digital technologies, mathematical ability will become much more valuable. However, it is not possible for everyone to be strong in terms of numbers. Do you think the sphere of activity of those with strong verbal or social intelligence in the field of business and production will gradually narrow?

In fact, there is no such thing as a decrease in the importance of existing professional fields and business lines. It is a fact that digitalization will affect all business areas, professional branches, and work styles. But I would also like to state that this effect will be in a positive direction. Both digital technologies and the inclusion of artificial intelligence in the process will have a reinforcing effect on all professional branches, business areas, and work styles. If strategies are determined correctly, future plans are made correctly, and new technological developments are adapted to the process as required, the effect will be strengthening and improving. Just as the first industrial revolution developed as an extension of the human body and strengthened the way humans do business in all areas and facilitated life, digitalization is also developing as an extension of the human brain, and therefore has a function that reinforces the human mental competence area. The important point here is to adapt this reinforcing element correctly.

With digital technologies, and especially in parallel with the effective use of artificial intelligence, existing professions are developing on the one hand, and new professional fields are emerging on the other. For example, with the introduction of artificial intelligence, the medical profession will not lose its importance; on the contrary, by utilizing the opportunities of artificial intelligence technology, significant breakthroughs will be made in this professional field, and developments will be achieved. Therefore, the field of medicine and the medical profession will continue to be one of the most respected and important ones of the future. Similarly, with digitalization and the introduction of artificial intelligence, engineering fields such as software and computer will continue to be the shining professions of the future as they are today, but on the other hand, engineering fields such as civil, electrical, electronic, industrial, environmental, etc., will continue to exist as much more competent professional fields with the use of digital technologies and artificial intelligence. But in the meantime, artificial intelligence engineering has already started to take its place in the business and work field as a new area. A similar situation applies to the field of law, which has never lost its respect and importance from the past to the present. With the introduction of artificial intelligence, the work of lawyers, judges, and prosecutors is becoming much easier. As for those who want to advance in the media field, there is nothing to say.

Digitalization has a reinforcing and transformative effect on all media-related professional fields. Therefore, the field of communication will continue to be the shining star of the future, just as it is today.

There is no need for those interested in the field of social and human sciences to be unhappy either. Social and human sciences are professional fields based on social analysis and research, and in this process, utilizing digital technologies and artificial intelligence will make things much easier. Especially in quantitative-based analyses, the use of algorithms makes things quite easy. The collection, systematization, and analysis of information and data have now become much more enjoyable with the opportunities of digitalization and artificial intelligence. In that case, university candidates can choose verbal departments with peace of mind.

When analyzing the future in terms of business, profession, and work areas, it is necessary to look at the transformative effect of digitalization and artificial intelligence on existing ones on the one hand, and their innovative effect on the other. Artificial intelligence technology, on the one hand, is integrated into existing professions, having a transformative and developmental effect on them, and on the other hand, it creates an environment for the emergence of some new areas and professional branches. No professional field, no business line, and therefore no university department or program that exists today is losing value. As long as we can be visionary and ensure that every profession, business area, and therefore every department and program is constantly updated according to changes by taking technological developments into account.