Digital Transformation and Your Employees

Is Your Company’s Technology an

Embarrassment?

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.

It’s even worse than IT fears …

The same survey found that32 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The larger the company, the more likely a non-IT employee is to complain about a lack of training.

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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.

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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.