WEBINAR How To Successfully Hire And Staff For

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WEBINAR How To Successfully Hire And Staff For Your Digital Business Danielle Geoffroy, Researcher May 17, 2017. Call in at 10:55 a.m. Eastern time Structure, talent, & process make or break digital biz success The need to be Agile is driving systems architecture and organizational change. I spend so much time trying to run around to get approval from various departments that I can’t actually get anything done. In general, everyone knows a change is needed. But when it affects their day-to-day lives, there is a resistance to it. You can have all the best technology in the world. But without the right organizational model, staffing, and governance in place . . . it means nothing. Traditional ways of justifying projects just aren’t cutting it anymore. We are chronically short on resources. We don’t have dedicated mobile skills on staff, so we expect our digital team to be adept in mobile. Different parts of the organization own different pieces of the client. Digital biz executives see the need for radical organizational change . . . . . . but face resistance due to lack of understanding. Discuss key findings from the survey results and what they mean for your organization. Agenda Quick survey methodology overview Digital leadership: Who’s driving this ship? Organization: trends, governance, and how firms are getting things done Staffing and hiring: What’s in demand and hard to find? Outsourcing: What to leverage to partners and who to leverage to? Agenda Quick survey methodology overview Digital leadership: Who’s driving this ship? Organization: trends, governance, and how firms are getting things done Staffing and hiring: What’s in demand and hard to find? Outsourcing: What to leverage to partners and who to leverage to? Q4 2016 Global eBusiness Organization And Staffing Online Survey Survey overview Each year, Forrester fields an executive survey to benchmark and understand how eBusiness professionals approach budget, staffing, and organization. Forrester fielded this survey during Q4 of 2016. Among those we contacted, 194 respondents are global eBusiness executives who have extensive knowledge of their companies’ organization structure, staffing trends, and consumer-facing digital initiative budgets. Survey respondents: overview Company size: 65% of companies are enterprises (5,000 or more employees). Revenue: 65% of companies we surveyed have more than $1 billion in revenue. Geography: 44% of respondents are from the US, 19% are from mainland Europe, and 19% are from Asia Pacific. Industry: 34% of respondents are in