Are Your Staff Ready to Swim in the Digital Tide?
How do you survive—even thrive—in the Digital age?
While one, clear answer may remain elusive, one thing is abundantly clear: Without a flexible workforce armed with the knowledge and skills tools they need to adapt to this brave new era of disruption, survival itself is far from guaranteed.
And these are, indeed, challenging times for companies. We are living through a new age of disruption where, with dizzying speed, the volume and complexity of change intensifies year by year. Disruption can happen at any time, in any sector, and its effect on traditional and digital businesses alike can shake organizational and business model foundations to the core.
Adaptation to disruption in this, the brave new electronic economy—as with adaption to Digital—is not a one-off investment. Instead, it is a long, transformational journey where success takes effort, investment, and – more importantly – comprehensive strategic planning.
When we talk about “Digital” we’re talking about a phenomenon that is distinct from traditional e-commerce and digital marketing. The term describes the disruption and reinvention of existing business models – models that can be turned on their heads or even become obsolete.
This makeover of the digital and business worlds and disruption of existing business models beyond traditional e-business is being enabled by a set of crucial new technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, mobile, cloud, and information analytics.
Those organisations and businesses that have ready access to the strategic tools, conceptual models and perspectives that will allow them to develop a strategic response to the challenges thrown up by the rising tide of digital disruption and the new digital possibilities they present can align themselves at the high-tide mark of opportunity.
Those that don’t, will struggle.
Implementing a digital strategy comes with complexity and varying degrees of risk, demanding a greater range of competencies and adaptability and—above all—flexibility.
One of the most formidable challenges to businesses facing Digital disruption is in providing a workforce with the intellectual and competency tools it needs to arm itself with the kind of flexibility this Digital age demands.
A recent study from Accenture found that today’s workforce are not just willing but keen to embrace the skills they need for Digital and the challenges it presents. It found that they believe that this embrace of Digital offers them new occasions for self-improvement and advancement.
Employees in the Digital age are hungry for the skills they need to meet the challenges of a digital-lead business.
This enthusiasm and thirst for digital knowledge is itself a significant asset for businesses seeking concrete strategies to cope with and embrace digitization.
However, the days of employee skills and competency “box-ticking” are over and today’s learning services have evolved to keep up with the growing demands of the Digital age.
A Digital-ready workforce needs a comprehensive competency-based framework that allows L&D teams to readily assess and identify the specific developmental needs of their organisations.
And this is where Learning Services industry leaders and innovators like SureSkills come in.
SureSkills Learning Services applies a philosophy and approach to workforce learning that is deeply rooted in the insights gained, the challenges overcome, and the innovations applied through its long experience in working in close partnership with clients that are themselves proactively seeking to chart a course through the choppy waters of the Digital age.
Its competency-based framework allows for the development of targeted content that meets the need of the individual learner, eliminating the need for costly generic content.
SureSkills CEO Ross Bolton explains: “We provide role-based competency models and benchmarking assessments to help businesses understand the capabilities of their people. This allows employees to understand what level their core skills are at, and more importantly, helps them recognize what skills they need to develop to excel in their role.”
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