Ignoring the ‘digital talent’ gap is becoming an an alarming trend - Today, no sector can stay immune to the power of the digital opportunity.

1. 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 KABIR
Marketer - Innovation Strategist
Digital Transformation Evangelist – Entrepreneur
@monirul

2. Today, no sector can stay immune to the power of
the digital opportunity.
What is
DigitalImmaturity?
Today, no sector can stay immune to the
power of the digital opportunity.

3. Today, no sector can stay immune to the power of
the digital opportunity.
What is
DigitalImmaturity?
But some companies don’t invest
in developing their digital skills.

4. Today, no sector can stay immune to the power of
the digital opportunity.
What is
DigitalImmaturity?
They instantly fall in the
‘digitally immature’ category!

5. Today, no sector can stay immune to the power of
the digital opportunity.
What is
DigitalImmaturity?
These companies failto acknowledge
the magnitude of training and re-skilling
that is required.

6. Today, no sector can stay immune to the power of
the digital opportunity.
• 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
gapin education

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. Thank you