Is Your Technology Embarrassing Your Employees? According to a recent survey sponsored by Sungard AS, IT decision-makers are struggling to keep up with the increased digital demands placed upon them by employees and business leaders. Some 52 percent of IT decision makers feel their organizations are trailing management expectations for digital transformation, while 54 percent believe the speed of digital transformation is not meeting office workers' expectations either. It’s even worse than these IT decision-makers fear. The same survey also asked non-IT employees about their organization’s digital transformation. Many employees find their organization’s lack of progress in digital transformation embarrassing, even to the point of leaving to find a new job. Learn more here: http://ow.ly/qvYq303Wfmz

1. Digital Transformation and Your
Employees
Is Your Company’s
Technology an
Embarrassment?

2. For many organizations, efforts at
“digital transformation” are getting
bogged down.
Globally, a recent survey* found 52 percent of IT
decision makers feel their organizations are trailing
management expectations for digital transformation.
54 percent believe the speed of digital transformation
is not meeting office workers' expectations either.
*The research, sponsored by Sungard AS and run by IT
specialist research agency Vanson Bourne, questioned 700
ITDMs and 1,400 office workers from businesses in the U.S.,
U.K., France, Ireland and Sweden.

3. It’s even worse than IT fears …
The same survey found that
32 percent of U.S. employees
have left a job because the
employer did not enable digital
working practices.**
** Using new and emerging technologies for work -- including cloud based technologies,
digital platforms, website mobile site/applications, social media, and customer-facing
technology systems -- to increase productivity and improve communication with internal and
external parties.

4. For most rank-and-file employees,
the right technology is essential.
83 percent of U.S. employees consider it important
to have access to the latest digital tools.
It makes it easier to do my job – 80 percent
It makes me more productive – 55 percent
It makes me better at my job – 48 percent

5. Access to top technology is seen
as the key to career advancement.
61 percent of U.S. employees believe there are
greater career progression opportunities at digitally-
led organizations.

6. Conversely, poor technology is a
source of embarrassment for many
employees.
49 percent of U.S. employees would be embarrassed
to work at an organization that did not use the latest
digital tools.

7. Are you embarrassing your
employees?
45 percent of U.S. employees believe their current
employer is behind competitors when it comes to
adopting the latest digital tools and technologies.

8. For non-IT employees, this is not
just a technology issue.
Having the right training was seen as the top
technical challenge in achieving digital
transformation, picked as the number one challenge
by 25 percent of non-IT employees.
Having the right skills ran a close second,
picked by 20 percent.

9. The larger the company, the more
likely a non-IT employee is to
complain about a lack of training.
28%
31%
35%
38%
41%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
250 – 499 employees 500 – 999 employees 1000 – 2999
employees
3000 – 5000
employees
More than 5000
employees
“We are not given enough or any training
to get the most from the latest digital
tools available to us.”
Percent of Respondents Who Agree

10. Even IT suffers a skills gap.
40 percent of IT decision makers admit they
lack the skills needed to integrate new
applications into their existing technology.

11. Download the full report here
Don’t let your technology embarrass your organization any longer. Take a look at
this research report, The Reality of Digital in the Workplace, a definitive look at the
challenges to digital transformation.