Companies are often victims of their own success. They develop a set of structures and processes that work and generate profits. As the company grows, these structures and processes become ‘set in stone’ and hard to change.

Many HR leaders struggle to be heard by the business.  They are frustrated that they are not included in important business decisions and are made to focus on core HR processes. At the same time, others have mastered that challenge and are true trusted advisers to business leadership. 

An effective digital learning strategy needs to address issues such as the ever-shorter shelf life of knowledge, keeping the workforce motivated to learn, and balancing the impact of time spent away from work.

In this article, we break down the key requirements of Digital Literacy across the workforce, specialized capabilities, and soft skills that organizations need to build, buy and borrow to succeed in this Digital World.

Surprisingly to leaders who are seeing their efforts at digital transformation stutter and stall, the challenges that usually slow transformation are not technology, but people issues. Culture (which drives mindset and behaviors) plays a key role in successful digital transformation.

How well is your company’s leadership tuned in to the disruptions around them? A lack of digital vision at the highest leadership levels can be fatal, as the demise of one-time video giant Blockbuster demonstrates.

Many find the pace of projects designed to make them more digitally adept and agile to be excruciatingly slow. Why doesn’t all this technology fall conveniently into place? It’s not because of technology. It often fails because of things fundamental to our organizations - the people.