Digitisation has impacted the value of different skills in many industries. Every organisation is looking for innovative ways to optimise how machines and humans can work together to uncover new value for their businesses. Recruiting and retaining digital talent to support digital business strategies has been a constant challenge for organisations while they keep a delicate balance between cost and value. In this talk, we will look at how to rethink Talent Strategy to embrace the Digital Age by evaluating the impact of digitalisation on skills, exploiting the diversity of digital talent pools, and redesigning jobs to unleash new business value.
2. Sharon Lau
• Principal Lecturer and Consultant at ISS, Digital Strategy and Leadership
Practice
• +20 years experience of Business & Technology Leadership in Retail industry.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-lau-digital-leadership/
DIGITAL LEADERSHIP . CHANGE LEADERSHIP . BUSINESS AGILITY
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What capabilities do
we need to achieve
our business
strategy?
How will we get
a deep bench of
high-performing
talent?
What’s the
three-year plan
to win through
talent?
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What Are The Challenges?
Reactive
instead of
Proactive
Lack of Skills
Gap Analysis
Lack of
common
language for
alignment
Struggle to
translate
capabilities to
talent needs
8. Where Do We Start?
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Strategy Capability ? ? ? ?
10. Identify Talent Needs
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Which roles are most
pivotal to its execution?
Business Strategy
& Capabilities
How should these roles
be organized?
What specific competencies,
experiences, traits and
drivers are required for
success?
11. Where Are Your Critical Roles?
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Chief
Marketing
Officer
Account
Manager
12. Where Are The Critical Value Created?
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CEO
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Task 1
Task 2
Task 3
Task 4
Task 5
Task 6
Task 7
Task 8
Job Role Redesigned
Full Time Employee: John
Job Title : Accountant
Task 4
Task 5
What will happen to John?
Task 1
Task 2
Task 3
Outsourced
Automation
Augmentation
1. Break jobs down into tasks.
2. Assess the potential impact of AI or
outsourcing (gig) on each task.
3. Consult managers and employees
for their perspectives and
communicate to employees “why”,
“what” and “how” the job redesign
will occur.
4. Recombine and reconstruct the
transformed tasks into a future job.
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Aligning Business & Talent Strategy
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What are the new skills &
capabilities to support our
business transformation?
1.
Which capabilities can be supported
by technologies and what skills are
required from our workforce?
2. Who has the required skills
in our organization today?
3.
What are the skills gaps in our
workforce today?
4.
Do we want to hire the new
skills or develop the new
skills?
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