IT SKILLS GAP
Bridging the tech talent gap to deliver shareholder value
Workday enables you to find, develop and retain the IT talent you need – even in today’s talent-scarce landscape. How? With a skills-based strategy driven by AI and a unified digital platform made to take your organisation forever forward.
The research behind the skills gap
Emerging research helps us understand, and even quantify, the significance of the IT skills gap. Leaders around the globe find that it’s urgent, rapidly expanding and solvable with the right approach.
This infographic brings together the most helpful and actionable insights for you.
87%
of organisations currently have skills gaps or expect to have them in the next few years.
90%
of organisations will be affected by IT skills shortages by 2025.
$6.5 trillion
could be lost by businesses due to delays, customer dissatisfaction and loss of business.
For every gap, there is a bridge. Or three.
The Workday suite of applications turns IT challenges into opportunities by providing essential insights and automations tailored to your needs.
Start with Workday Skills Cloud – the digital skills foundation trusted by over 25 percent of Fortune 500 companies – and then see how Workday Prism Analytics and Workday People Analytics can deepen and accelerate your skills journey.
Solutions for your best-in-class IT skills strategy
Workday Skills Cloud
The world’s most open intelligent skills foundation, Workday Skills Cloud uses embedded AI to continually update and refine your understanding of your workforce. Keep pace with evolving industry standards and requirements, create better people strategies and meet your organisation’s needs by upskilling, reskilling, redeploying and hiring new talent with ease.
Workday Prism Analytics
Take your skills and workforce data even further. Workday Prism Analytics, the advanced analytics engine, integrates external and internal Workday data, giving you a comprehensive view of your business and democratised access to insights. Empower everyone within the organisation to make more confident decisions, drive growth and identify and seize opportunities like never before.
Workday People Analytics
Reveal the hidden patterns, trends and opportunities in your workforce data and see the complete skills-related story. Workday People Analytics is the key to understanding your dynamic, complex workforce – acting with confidence, fairness and speed to unlock your team’s potential and expand profitability.
Delivering business agility by closing the IT skills gap
Create more agile teams and strategies with a skills foundation designed to handle the volume, complexity and scale of today’s workforces.
Deliver a global skills strategy
Provide a consistent experience worldwide by leveraging Workday tools to interact with skills in 16 languages.
Enhance data-driven experiences
Enable richer data experiences with machine learning that uncovers complex skill connections beyond human analysis.
Reduce administrative complexity
Fine-tune operations with granular and duplicate management, automated reports, skills categorisation and support for proprietary and crowdsourced audits.
Focus on the skills that matter
Keep your teams aligned by identifying, tracking and developing the critical skills that matter most to your business.
Drive talent agility with analytics and AI
Gain rich insights into your skills strategy by leveraging advanced analytics and AI capabilities. With AI built into the core of the Workday platform, our unmatched capabilities are designed to be scalable and continuously evolve to meet the demands of an ever-changing future.
Skills-based recommendations
Analyse large amounts of data quickly to provide equitable recommendations for jobs, learning content and connections.
Skills suggestions for everyone
Whether you’re a candidate, an employee or an admin, Workday Skills Cloud suggests the skills that are relevant to your experience.
Jobs and opportunities matching
Machine learning algorithms match candidates and employees with relevant jobs and surface top applicants for recruiters.
Proficiency assessments
Understand the strengths of your workforce by configuring proficiency assessments that fit the needs of your organisation.
Resources
Resources for IT leaders
Fresh off the wire for the modern CIO
Explore the latest news, research, insights and more, curated to help CIOs and their teams keep business moving forever forwards.
The business value of Workday by IDC
Read the study to discover how nine organisations increased value and drove success with Workday.
Closing the AI trust gap
How organisations can bridge the gap between employee and leader sentiments.
The Workday technology strategy eBook
Your go-to guide for exploring architecture, guiding principles and the power to adapt.
AI IQ: Are CIOs prepared for the future of work?
Workday research reveals 73 percent of business leaders feel pressure to adopt AI. Discover the top challenges to implementation.
Learn more about Workday Solutions for IT