Digital Transformation Shattering Talent Silos | Uphoff on Industry

The Big Themes:

• Seeing a shift from hyper-specialization: What are the implications for recruiting, retaining, and developing talent in today’s market? Will the era of collaboration give way to a more structured approach to building teams and organizational structures?
• Digital transformation is blurring the boundaries between domains: Technology is asking questions about finance. Finance is asking questions about sales. Marketing is helping to define core financial metrics.
• In a world where everyone has access: Same data, and same information. What sources can leaders turn to seek an advantage?
• The role curiosity plays: Business success will grow exponentially in the next decade. Leaders can see the patterns and the connections between various disciplines and functions. And data sets will become highly prized.

The Big Quotes:

“I think Steve Jobs took a lot of inspiration from just the relentless curiosity that Walt Disney had.”

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