Digital Artisans: 9 key questionsNAME : Srinivas KandulaCOMPANY : CapgeminiDESIGNATION : India CEO
1. Is there a gap between supply and demand for digital skills?
Increase in unfilled digital technology jobs
by end of 2015
50%
% of more key digital business jobs, compared with traditional models,
by 2018
500%66%
Jobs left unfilled of the 4.4 million Big Data jobs created in 2015
2. Are business opportunities lost due to digital skills scarcity?
We are investing in the necessary digital skills
We agree/strongly agree we have digital skills
All Others Digirati
Analytics Social Mobile
11%
7%9%
26%23%
25%
82% of respondents from Digirati agreed, compared to 40% in other firms
The Digital Leaders or “Digirati” are 26% more profitable than their industry competitors
3. Will this gap between supply and demand enlarge or narrow? Are there adequate efforts to create enough supply in the next 5 years?
Only 4% companies align their training efforts with overall
digital strategy
No company spends >20% of its training budget on digital
Only 13% of companies use innovative methods to
source digital talent
4. Is there a gap between what is taught in colleges and organizations versus what is required in the industry?
5. Should the hiring process be different for digital skills?
Mobile
Analytics Social
Technical Talent
Strong understanding of Business Drivers
Knowledge of Technical underpinnings
Business Professional
Digital AgeEmployee
>50% of companies realize that mobile is one of the two most important skills for digital transformation. However, >80% of them face a talent shortage in mobile.
Only 21% rate their company’s analytics capabilities as “more than adequate” or “world class”. More than 75% agree that it is challenging to source such skills.
Over 49% of candidates are more likely to consider a job advertised in an innovative way.
6. Do digital skills require different hiring and development techniques and tools?
Plugging the Skill Gap
Innovative Recruitment Methods
Target Company
Acquisitions
PartnershipsIncubating for the Future
Training Programs
Made several Acquisitions of Mobile, Social and
Technology Firms
Partnered with Kaggle, a Platform for Data Prediction
Competitions
Partnered with Techstars for an Incubator Program
Launched an Employee Exchange Program
with Google
Gamified their Recruitment Process
Launched a Digital IQ training. Over 20,000 employees trained in 2 years
Implemented reverse mentoring programs
Launched an incubator program for mobile startups
7. Is attrition among digital workforce higher?
8. Is Digital elitist?
9. From a socio-economic, technical and cultural standpoint, does the digital workforce differ from other technical talent?
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