Transformation | Building the case for investing in tech training and talent

COVID-19 delivered the most extraordinary transformation in our way of working and living that we will ever experience.

But alongside the race to enable colleagues to work remotely and enable customers to consume services digitally overnight, something else was happening. With more than 80% of companies now investing or planning to invest in emerging technologies, business leaders were systematically learning from thousands of every day innovations borne out of the lockdown experience.

With first-hand experience of both employee and customer appetite for change, business leaders have emerged with a genuine understanding of the art of what is possible. However, recent findings from QA have found that today’s business leaders believe the impact of the global pandemic will wage on. In fact, statistics indicate that 82% of UK-based business leaders expect the economic impact of Covid-19 to be more severe than the global financial crisis of 2007/08.

Due to this, companies across the UK are leaning on new technologies to transform their business, to enhance their capabilities and to invest in better training for their staff, with the aim of also attracting new talent. This is replicated in QA data as it found that more than 80% of companies are investing or planning to invest in emerging technologies.