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FINAL WORD
Why an
adaptive and
collaborative
workforce is
essential in the
digital era
In the modern era, enterprises are tasked
with building and maintaining a culturally
diverse and agile workforce. Anand Birje,
Corporate Vice President and Head of
Digital & Analytics, HCL Technologies,
suggests five steps for business leaders to
support a culture of continuous learning
and allow for a workforce that is prepared
for transformations in technology.
W
ith Digital Transformation now mainstream in enterprises
worldwide, business leaders are no longer asking ‘why?’,
but ‘how?’. At the core of Digital Transformation is
enterprises’ ability to build organisational and technological agility,
which together enable business process agility. The rapid evolution in
digital technologies such as cloud, IoT, AI, data, positioning systems,
AR/VR, APIs, etc. can help to create new business outcomes if the
enterprise is adaptive and composable at its core. As organisational
structures and cultures across industries are at the tipping point of
change, enterprises are challenged to build and retain a technically
savvy, culturally diverse and agile workforce.
Create a workforce that expects disruption
With change being the only constant, enterprises that thrive in
the digital economy do so by creating lean, agile teams of people
who implement technology as an extension of themselves and are
ready for life-long, continuous learning. For employers, the onus then
becomes creating a culture that encourages learning and providing
their workforce with the resources and tools to help them along this
journey of continuous improvement.
By providing constant learning opportunities, enterprises benefit from
a workforce that is ready for disruptive, daily changes in technology.
A digitally adaptive workforce produces greater innovation, enterprise
agility and the capacity to predict rather than react to market
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