Recruitment of digital talent is a huge challenge, especially in certain kinds of firms. Large, traditional firms engaged in low-growth industries with slim profit margins are those kinds. These are often situated far away from the big cities where the talent recruitment of data scientists would have been far easier due to the larger pool available. German and Scandinavian pulp-and-paper firms for instance are struggling to cope with this. They have devised ingenious techniques to bridge the gap such as by providing adequate corporate training to existing personnel encouraged to upskill. A major challenge for them is to align such digital capabilities with their core business. To this end giants such as BCG, McKinsey, EON, RWE, Metro, Lufthansa and Bayer have set up accelerators to get this done. These digital skills must be scalable across the organization and not remain confined to any single area. Bottom-up initiatives are being designed so that insights gauged at the frontline can be implemented.

Source:https://hbr.org/2018/07/the-barriers-to-recruiting-and-employing-digital-talent

Uploaded Date:18 July 2018