Seth Finegan, Informed Solutions英国首席执行官
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UK government continues to make it clear that it recognises the value of innovation to the economy as a source of competitiveness, 生产力, 收入和利润. 事实上, UK government’s Industrial Strategy highlighted “ideas” as among the five foundations of 生产力.
政府也越来越认识到，我们不能继续做同样的事情, 以同样的方式, 为新的和不断增长的经济群体, 我们面临的环境和社会挑战. 几乎总是, meeting those challenges will rely very significantly on digital transformations that produce world class digital services and data insights as a means to effectively serve and support society today.
此外, we are currently faced with a significant gap with regard to the readily available digital skills and talent required to meet these challenges. Demand for this talent is sky high and as this demand and C-suite excitement for advanced digital tech like AI builds, 对人工智能专业人员的需求也在不断膨胀. 根据英国科技行业(techUK), 93% of tech businesses say lack of digital skills is hampering their ability to both scale their businesses and deliver transformation projects in a timely fashion.
Government and its newly established AI Council are helping to lay the path for future skills delivery through combined government and industry investment of £370 million, 这将提供2,英国新增700个人工智能博士学位. 1,700 of these places have been allocated to advance discoveries that meet healthcare and poverty-related issues.
现在对技能的要求是什么? Is it all tech-related when it comes to the talent and skills that are needed to power digital transformation today?
没有合作就没有创新
根据分析公司IDC的数据，2019年40%的IT支出用于数字化转型. A significant proportion of this spend and effort relates to businesses focusing not just on the adoption of complex technology, but on improving business processes and developing effective digital services that they need as businesses, 他们的客户或利益相关者需要作为服务的消费者.
An essential element of this focus relies on business leaders that have curiosity about the potential for digital transformation mapping onto, and collaborating with the tech talent that can shape transformation from a technical perspective.
数字文化领导将意味着实现从卓越中心的转变, to valuing contribution from wide swathes of people in an organisation as well as its supply chain and partners. Successful digital transformation is just as much about company culture as it is about the latest tech – it’s also about attacking the challenge as a whole business, 不仅仅是一些优秀和聪明的人. 这在很大程度上取决于吸引力, development and curation of people with soft skills such as: Leadership; teamwork; communications; problem solving; work ethics; flexibility and adaptability and interpersonal skills.
From our perspective and from experience in co-designing and delivering digital transformation services that are used by millions of people every day, 我们理解软技能作为协作要素的重要性. 每一次成功的数字化转型都需要整个组织的参与.
We also need to encourage digital transformation approaches that make space for diversity and different thinking in both how we recruit and train people and in how we collaborate to develop digital services. 我们今天面临的社会挑战需要不同的见解, 新的技能和解决问题的不同方法. We cannot innovate unless we collaborate – and this collaboration relies on a combination of business know-how and soft skills, 与技术交付的更难的数字技能相结合.
