A Gartner study shows that only 7 percent to 18 percent of the organizations around the world possess the digital dexterity to adopt new ways of work solutions such as virtual collaboration and mobile workforce.
There is a palpable focus by organizations on being future-ready and a big constituent of this readiness is having digitally dexterous employees and business processes that can make the most of the myriad technologies available. But using digital technologies is a multifaceted and intricate task with minimal margin for errors. A recent study by Gartner shows that only a fraction of organizations is digitally dexterous to enable the successful integration of new ways of work solutions. The study relies on a survey of 3,120 workers who had a full-time employment with an organization with 100 or more employees and were “required to use digital technology for work purposes”. Let’s take a closer look at the survey and its findings.
Gartner defines a ‘digital workplace’ as one which enables new, more effective ways of working, raises employee engagement and agility, and exploits consumer-oriented styles and technologies. In this context, the report considers employees to be digitally dexterous if they “have the cognitive ability and social practice to leverage and manipulate media, information and technology in unique and highly innovative ways”, and states that employees possessing high-levels of digital dexterity are more open to working from anywhere in a ‘non-office’ fashion and are inclined to use consumer (or consumer-like) software solutions while working.
Organizations’ (lack of) Digital Dexterity
This story is from the August 2018 edition of People Matters.
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