by Livio Hughes | Apr 16, 2021
How can HR functions adopt a more creative, targeted approach to developing home-grown digital talent? The digital people challenge The digital skills gap was already widening fast before COVID-19 struck, as this World Economic Forum report shows. Since then, the 1-2...
by Sophie Laidler | Oct 4, 2018
As organisations try to keep up with progress on digital innovations, demand for ‘digital talent’ has become a hot topic. There is much anxiety about the lack of existing digital talent – but do we have an agreed definition of what it is? Many focus on the...
by Sam Thomas | Jan 4, 2018
More so than ever before, we see business models becoming more fluid, having to change to keep up with the dynamics of their market environment. Even large, traditional organisations are looking at structures such as Spotify’s tribe model or Haier’s autonomous...
by Cerys Hearsey | Dec 14, 2017
The demand for digital talent at all levels of the organisation far outstrips supply. Research by Mortimer Spinks indicates that by 2020 the UK is expected to have a shortage of 800,000 tech workers. Recruiting them costs more and takes longer than any other type of...
by Postshift | Jul 20, 2017
In our most recent research, many CIOs and CDOs complained that their digital strategy has only affected the edge of the business. Digging into this, we see that one of the biggest root causes is the siloed digital team. Originally separated from the business to...
