The banking, insurance, telecommunications and information technology sectors have a greater number of people lacking qualifications and talent, the president of Deloitte Angola, José Barata, told Forbes Africa Lusophone.
José Barata made this statement on Wednesday, 25, in Luanda, at the end of the presentation of the results of the 14th edition of Deloitte’s Tech Trends study, where he stressed that, in recent years, technology has made significant leaps, which requires more and more qualified and trained people.
“Universities are failing to respond to this demand,” said the official, recommending organizations to invest in human capital, training and retention. “Nowadays, people or younger people are not motivated only by money,” said José Barata, suggesting that “organizations have a very significant challenge here.”
Meanwhile, according to the Deloitte study, technological human capital continues to be at the center of organizations’ concerns, given the shortage of qualified resources and the difficulties of retaining talent.
The study on the technological trends that will impact the future of organizations indicates that with technology assuming a decisive role in the future of Angolan companies, digital transformation represents a new arena of innovation and differentiation between economic agents, in an increasingly global and integrated context.
“The competition for qualified and increasingly valuable IT staff forces us to consider flexible mechanisms to assess and develop the most appropriate technical and human skills at each moment in the technological innovation cycle, in the process of recruitment, training, reskilling of talent and in career models that can provide for new lateral movements between different technologies”, considers Deloitte.
During the presentation of the study, the partner and head of consulting in the financial sector at Deloitte, Nuno Carvalho, said that, nowadays, there is a “very accentuated” shortage of talent, particularly in the area of technology. “On the other hand, there is also another factor that has to do with the evolution of technologies that are increasingly accelerating.
Therefore, there are more offers, which makes organizations concerned with training their staff, in order to better respond to needs”, he detailed. For the consultancy’s staff, digital transformation processes are imperative for businesses to thrive, demonstrating the need to create processes for attracting, selecting and retaining talent.
The 14th edition of Deloitte’s Tech Trends study looks at the different ways organizations are adapting and using increasingly powerful technology tools to design their future.
Source: AngoNoticias