University Digital Maturity Profile as a Tool of Higher Education System Digital Transformation

A systematic review and framework for digital leadership research maturity in higher education

“…(ibid., p. 19). Evidence from wider literature confirms that digitalization in higher education is a vital current topic [7,57,84,109,124].…”

“…To inform the development of mature digital leadership in higher education, it is vital to consider and evaluate prior research literature systematically. Given earlier exploratory e-leadership scoping studies and prior reviews in closely related fields such as e-leadership in technology-enhanced learning in HE and digital education leaders [16,17,20,31,121], our aim was to conduct an updated systematic review solely focused on digital leadership in higher education rather than a scoping review [110], and to propose a digital leadership maturity framework for higher education, building on prior work on digital maturity in other disciplines [57,58,74,98,107], and early exploratory work in higher education [57,84,109,121,124]. Given that this review of empirical work included all categories of staff in higher education, notably amongst management, administration and teaching staff, the focus of the review was to identify findings on digital leadership that were able to be generalised at an institution-wide level across staffing groups, on which the digital leadership maturity framework could be built.…”

“…In response to the above identified deficits in the literature, this review therefore proposes the following initial outline of a Digital Leadership Research Maturity Framework. The framework builds on prior exploratory work on the development and assessment of digital maturity in higher education at a generalised level, rather than focused on digital leadership research [46,47,84,109]. These are useful background frameworks for the detailed conceptualisation of digital maturity in higher education, but regrettably do not focus much, if at all, on digital leadership or research into this.…”

“…Digital leadership (DL) maturity is essential to develop the capabilities needed to lead organizations in every sector [3][4][5]29,48,56,57,60,71,99]. This includes higher education institutions (HEIs) undergoing digitalization, which tend to be slower to develop advanced digital maturity than organizations in some other industries [7][8][9]33,50,59,60,62,65,80,84,99,101,109]. As Puckett et al [99] note, 'higher education is digitally far behind most other industries'.…”