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Rewired

by Eric Lamarre, Kate Smaje, Rodney Zemmel
June 2023
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
7h 34m
English
Wiley
Audiobook available
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Section TwoBuilding Your Talent Bench

Creating an environment where digital talent thrives

No company can outsource its way to digital excellence. Being digital means having your own bench of digital talent – product owners, experience designers, data engineers, data scientists, software developers, etc. – working side by side with your business colleagues.1

For this reason, digital and AI transformations are first and foremost people and talent transformations.2 And you can't start soon enough because you need to mobilize technologists to start delivering against the digital roadmap, and securing the right talent has the longest lead time compared to any of the other priorities.

Executives from legacy businesses should not think they need to cede top digital talent to Silicon Valley companies. Established companies with inspiring agendas and real commitment to people have been successful in creating a bench of digital technologists. Many have proven this.

The best digital talent programs go way beyond hiring to creating and delivering on exciting employee value propositions, developing more agile and digital HR processes, and committing to creating an environment where the best talent gets better. This section will show you how.

  • Chapter 8: Core versus noncore capabilities – strategic talent planning. Develop a clear view of the talent you have, the talent you need, and a plan to close the gap. This might seem easy, but it's not.
  • Chapter 9: The talent team that can build your ...
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