2022 international webinar facing vuca, the IT Universe that benefits VUCA

What are some useful IT universes against VUCA? Although in the previous presentation it was mentioned that IT has a very big role in accelerating and expanding the effects of VUCA into people's lives, in the next presentation Mr. Priyadi explained about many things in IT that are very useful in dealing with VUCA. So what are the things in the IT universe that are useful in dealing with VUCA? This article discusses the presentation delivered by Mr. Priyadi about the IT universe that is useful in dealing with VUCA.


VUCA stands for Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. In essence, the world of VUCA means the world we live in today, where change is very fast, unpredictable, influenced by many factors that are difficult to control, and truth and reality are very subjective. If we want to survive in today's world, we cannot avoid these changes. We will often face situations where we can only adapt and cannot change the situation. As Albert Einstein said, "The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."


Awareness of VUCA theory today encourages many people to adapt more quickly and effectively. If someone resists change, then it is likely that that person will experience various lags that are quite far. Moreover, with the rapid development of information and communication technology as it is now, any change in one place will be very easy and quickly spread to other areas.


STEKOM University as a professional educational institution with a global outlook is also trying to build an academic community that is responsive to the VUCA phenomenon. This reason is one of the reasons that prompted STEKOM University to hold an international webinar involving speakers from within the country and abroad, specifically discussing various fields related to the VUCA phenomenon. The webinar is entitled "Facing the changing business world in the VUCA Era".


The seminar was held on October 20, 2022 with 2 speakers from Malaysia and one speaker from Indonesia. The third speaker was Mr. Priyadi, M. Kom who was the only speaker from Indonesia. Priyadi is a lecturer in IT at STEKOM University so the material presented is in accordance with his field of expertise, namely "How to deal with vuca in IT-based business and career".


Although the understanding of VUCA has been conveyed by several previous speakers, Mr. Priyadi still conveys the understanding of VUCA. The goal is to have a common perception of VUCA because there may be some differences in the definition or use of different terms compared to previous speakers or those on the internet in general.


There are many things in the IT universe that come in handy in dealing with VUCA. The explanation was delivered in a very interesting and original way by Mr. Priyadi. The first IT universe that is very useful according to Mr. Priyadi's explanation is information management. With good information management in a company, changes that occur continuously or volatility can be managed properly.


The next IT universe that will be very useful in dealing with VUCA according to Mr. Priyadi is data visualization. Data visualization will help us have a future vision of uncertain patterns of change. The uncertainty of change makes it difficult for us to understand the pattern and direction of change. So that with the data visualization it will be easier for us to understand the pattern and direction of these changes.


Mr. Priyadi's explanation about the IT universe that is very useful in dealing with the next VUCA is data clusterization and data classification. Data clustering and data classification will help us more easily see complex situations. With good data clustering and data classification, complex data will look simpler and patterns can be found, so that we can determine which ones are important or which ones are not too important and so on.


The last IT universe that is very useful according to Mr. Priyadi's explanation is artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence will help us in making decisions about ambiguous things. Because we can set artificial intelligence to calculate trends against data patterns that tend to overlap or ambiguous, either with formulas that we specify or with formulas that are learned automatically by the artificial intelligence system.