CIO OPINION new skills and capabilities without hiring new full-time employees .
# 6 Emerging technologies employees to do more on environmental sustainability , and having a sustainable business is seen as an opportunity to drive efficiency and revenue growth .
# 5 Talent shortage
Organisations find themselves with a unique challenge . Keeping the in-demand talent they have and finding the competitive talent they need , especially when staff budgets are contracting or staying flat . Fighting for new headcount will be challenging , so organisations will have to get creative .
To combat the tricky combination of an economic slowdown and the talent market squeeze , the best leaders will enact creative methods to acquire
Emerging technologies will have a large , disruptive effect in the coming decade . Adaptive AI , the metaverse , platform engineering , sustainable technology and superapps will change how organisations and societies operate . Seismic change does not happen overnight , but ignoring a disruption in its early stages typically makes the entry price higher later .
To capture the opportunities , it is critical to understand what , when and how key technologies will impact your strategic ambitions in the coming years .
In summary
• The pandemic is a human crisis that disrupted all business plans , but it was not a solo threat .
• The pandemic was a catalyst to a number of other macro factors to come to the foreground , like systemic mistrust and poor economic productivity .
• In combination , these factors require strategy resets for many industries , which will reshape business deep into the 2020s . p
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