the ‘digital talent gap

The Digital Talent Gap Widens

There is a huge gap between the existing technological skills and what is required in today’s Digital Era

KAZI MONIRUL KABIRMarketer - Innovation Strategist Digital Transformation Evangelist – Entrepreneur@monirul

Today, no sector can stay immune to the power of the digital opportunity.

What is

Digital Immaturity?



What is

Digital Immaturity?

But some companies don’t invest in developing their digital skills.


What is

Digital Immaturity?

They instantly fall in the

‘digitally immature’ category!


What is

Digital Immaturity?

These companies fail to acknowledge the magnitude of training and re-skilling that is required.


• An alarming 2015 research warns of the bleak consequences

Of Australian society’s unpreparedness for the future digital landscape.

• 60% of Australian students are training for careers that won’t

exist in 10 years’ time because of digital technology.

• A 2014 Oxford study finds that robotics and computing could wipe out

as much as 1/3 of all UK jobs over the next 20 years.• It also found that in the US, 47% of total employment

is at risk due to automation and digital technologies.

Global gap in education

Low Digital skills in companies

On the other side of this spectrum, lie the employers. The trend is alarming this side too!

Employers are reluctant to train their employees for digital skills.

MIT Sloan study finds only 4% of companies have a proper ‘digital skills training’ strategy.

How to bridge this gap?

Updating the skills of

employees doesn’t work in

isolation.

It must be a synergy of

technology and business acumen.

Technical talents should

understand business

strategies.

Business professionals

must learn the language of IT.

Thank you

the ‘digital talent gap

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