Navigating the Tech Talent Gap: Three Proven Strategies for Business Leaders

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The business landscape has experienced a monumental shift. According to recent findings from McKinsey, the proportion of digital or digitally-enhanced products within company portfolios has jumped forward by an incredible seven years. This isn’t a temporary blip; a vast majority of business leaders acknowledge that these changes are here to stay, fundamentally reshaping the role of technology.

For executives across the United States, this acceleration presents a critical challenge. Technology is no longer a peripheral support function but the central engine of business growth and strategy. As a survey of nearly 900 C-level leaders confirms, its integration is a core component of modern enterprise. The primary question is no longer "if" you should adapt, but "how" you can secure the talent to do so.

Navigating this reality requires a clear strategy. Companies are facing a technical skills crisis, and there are three primary pathways leaders can take to address it effectively: developing internal talent, recruiting new expertise, or leveraging strategic partnerships. Each approach offers distinct advantages and is suited to different organizational needs and timelines.

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What does successful Digital Transformation look like?

Filling the tech skills gap

Corporations develop close partnerships to improve training opportunities. Skill-building for digital transformations like Microsoft Azure projects require a new approach.

Use of more advanced technologies

Now companies are figuring how to use AI and ML and how they benefit from common data models to get better business insights, Successful businesses are a planning how to get business value from these platforms and other new tech.

Speed in experimenting and innovating

Companies are thinking about new business lines that they couldn't have done before, and this is going to continue to create an acceleration. There's a recognition that you can't go back.

How you close the gap

The fact is, that successful digital transformation is much more likely to happen, when you drive it with a purpose

That requires a solid training operating model that is easy to measure, targeted towards business goals and that you overcome the barrier of just not being able to prioritize skills development and acquisition.

The Swedish IT consultancy firm INVID has overcome that barrier by partnering with an expert learning solutions provider. They have been working with Readynez using their proven SKILL model and expert instructors to train and certify a whole team in Microsoft 365.

“We are seeing a massive shift in demand now, where customers need us to help them benefit from technology and they don´t need us as much to assist with the operational side of the technology. Take Cloud for instance…It is still new for many, and concerns about security, architecture and ROI come up and it takes a different set of skills and services to address those concerns”, says Richard Wahlstedt,  Business Area Manager at INVID.

Richard explains, that the corporate training strategy is undergoing its own transformation. The employee driven course-by-course purchasing strategy is in the past.

Now, training budgets are closely connected to the organization’s strategy and INVID is looking into learner analytics and role-based learning solutions to offer more transparency and control of the corporate competencies in general. That is what it takes to stay ahead of the game these days.

Reach out to Readynez using the chat, or call +45 88 18 43 20 to learn more about role-based and customised training using the proven SKILL model.

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