{"id":41587,"date":"2020-11-24T13:05:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T13:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=4e1478a1e724568fe8b50b5103136d48"},"modified":"2020-11-24T13:05:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T13:05:23","slug":"two-thirds-of-uk-organisations-facing-digital-skills-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/two-thirds-of-uk-organisations-facing-digital-skills-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Two thirds of UK organisations facing digital skills gap"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Sabina Weston<\/a><\/span>
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24 Nov, 2020<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Over two thirds (69%) of surveyed UK leaders believe that their organisation is currently facing a digital skills gap, according to a new report conducted by\u00a0Microsoft<\/a>\u00a0and Goldsmiths, University of London.<\/p>\n

Additionally, 44% of the 600 leaders surveyed indicated that they fear the current lack of digital skills in their organisation will have a negative impact on their organisation\u2019s success.<\/p>\n

This feeling is shared across other tiers of the organisation, with 63% out of the 2,000 surveyed employees saying that they believe they do not have the appropriate digital skills to fulfil new and emerging roles in their industry.<\/p>\n

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\nThe report found that the most significant barriers faced by organisations when addressing the skills gap were cost (37%), a\u00a0lack of skills investment strategy (28%), and a lack of knowledge on which skills initiatives to focus on (23%).<\/p>\n

Microsoft\u2019s chief learning officer Simon Lambert described digital skills as \u201cthe currency of\u00a0digital transformation<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor individuals, organisations and the UK as a whole, they will play a vital role in unlocking the way forward,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt a time when digital innovation is accelerating, we see it as our responsibility to help people acquire the right skills to succeed \u2013 be that for their own benefit, to boost the performance for the organisations they work for or to future-proof the UK\u2019s competitiveness on the global stage,\u201d said Lambert.<\/p>\n

Investment in digital skills will be important to the country\u2019s economic recovery following COVID-19, according to 80% of UK leaders, while 78% said that a large pool of digital talent will be essential to driving UK competitiveness.<\/p>\n

The findings, which were revealed during Microsoft\u2019s\u00a0Digital Skills Week<\/a>, come weeks after the tech giant\u00a0launched a new campaign<\/a>\u00a0that aims to help 1.5 million UK citizens build careers in technology over the next five years.<\/p>\n

Get On 2021, which is supported by KPMG, Unilever, and the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), aims to address the widening digital skills gap in the UK tech sector as well as accelerate technology adoption, drive\u00a0productivity<\/a>, and enhance competitiveness. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sabina Weston<\/p>\n

24 Nov, 2020 <\/p>\n

Over two thirds (69%) of surveyed UK leaders believe that their organisation is currently facing a digital skills gap, according to a new report conducted by\u00a0Microsoft\u00a0and Goldsmiths, Universit…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":627,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41588,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41587\/revisions\/41588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}