The challenge of new, ever-changing technology and how to keep up

Most organisations are responding in some way to the shift to an increasingly digital environment. As an indicator, recruitment sites and internal human resource departments are awash with newly created job roles or with traditional roles that have a prefix such as digital, online or transformation. The job market is a constantly useful barometer to examine how much the business landscape is changing. There is a term and role currently being used to describe leaders who are tackling digital transformation: the digital leader. The pace of technology change, for the first time, is outstripping the pace of learning. In some disciplines, the skills gained from a traditional three-year bachelors degree course are being superseded by emerging digital capabilities before the students graduate. A major concern for many leaders is that the organisational climate is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. Their justifiable nervousness is a result of directly dealing with the Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous world.