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GOING BEYOND THE
BUZZ IN 2019 AND
UNDERSTANDING ‘DIGITAL’
While Digital Transformation is all the rage these days,
Chris Pope, VP of Innovation at ServiceNow, says that
understanding the subject is a prerequisite if firms
are going to fully appreciate where new and emerging
technology will have an impact.
T
here are college degrees in computer
science and software engineering
that feature different programming
languages and methodologies. Looking
further, there are technical architecture
courses and many extended forms of tuition
designed to school us in every aspect of
technology you can think of. Yet, despite all
these channels of teaching and the many
books that have been written to explore our
world of technology, we appear to largely
fail when it comes to formalising a wider
approach to simply ‘teaching digital’.
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A responsibility to embrace digital
The consequences of not embracing digital
and the process of moving fundamental
work operations to new cloud-based,
services-driven platforms leads to something
of a vicious circle.
Firms start to haemorrhage employees
who look to move into roles where they will
be more productive. And as a result, the
company is left with a digital skills shortage.
Firms that do embrace digital platforms
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THE HARDER PART
OF LEARNING
DIGITAL IS
UNDERSTANDING
HOW IT WILL
CHANGE THE
BUSINESS IN THE
SHORT, MEDIUM
AND LONG-TERM.
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