Friday, August 16, 2019

The Monthly “Digital Gaps” Book Tuning: Identify and Fill Multitude of Skill/Talent Gaps Aug. 2019

We live in a time of rapidly changing technology and business dynamic, some new skills or digital capabilities are needed every day.

"Digital Gaps -Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Business is a guidebook to help digital leaders and professionals today identify, analyze, and mind multiple gaps with the multidisciplinary insight and holistic understanding. Today’s digital organization simply just can’t stand still., bridging the gap of opportunity between where you are and want to become is a welcomed challenge, it is important to identify and strengthen the weakest link and take a step-wise approach to make a leap of digital transformation.


             Identify and Fill Multitude of Skill/Talent Gaps


How to Fill Skills Gaps via Proper Trainings? We live in a time of rapidly changing technology and business dynamic, the growth minds, new skills, or digital capabilities are needed every day. From talent management perspective, more specifically, how do you identify skill gap issues (some are real, some are “artificial,”) and how to fill competency gaps via proper training?

Is IT skills Gap Fact or Fiction? There’s always a debate regarding IT talent supply and demand, does IT skills gap really exist? Or is it due to any management issues such as misunderstanding or miscommunication upon talent value chain? What is the root cause and how to solve the problem?

 Is Talent Shortage Real or Artificial? With the economy getting in better shape, more and more organizations start ambitious hiring plan to drive business growth, does your organization experience a talent shortage? What do you consider the primary issues? Skill gap? Talent scarcity? How do you define "social hiring" - and, at the digital era, do you agree that ineffective social hiring causes inability to attract good candidates? Or to put simply, is talent shortage real or artificial?

The Cause & Effect of Talent Gaps We live in a time of rapidly changing technology and business dynamic, some new skills or digital capabilities are needed every day. From talent management perspective, more specifically, what are the cause and effect of skill gap issues (some are real, some are “artificial,”) and how to handle them effectively in shaping both individual and corporate Digital Master?

IT Skills Gap According to industry surveys, IT skills gap is a significant challenge facing IT leaders today, what are exactly the skills gaps and what are the resulting symptoms? For example, businesses have job openings, but cannot find people with the right skill set; or the talented people they currently have do not have the right competencies to adapt to the changes; or their business partners do not understand IT. Sometimes, the gaps people usually pick are not root causes, they are symptoms of specific best practices not being used. So what are the organizational best practices/ways that have been deployed to close the gap?


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