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Reports issued from the BCS Insights event in the UK 2019

Some headlines and interesting content:

• Additional Resource Needs: Rating the additional resource they considered necessary to achieve their organisational goals

1. Enhanced IT capability and skills in existing workforce (62%).
2. Additional IT staff that are suitably qualified (45%).
3. Increased budget (42%).
4. Enhanced IT capability in leadership team (30%).
5. None – we have enough resources (12%). 06. Other (5%) e.g. continuous knowledge enhancement; enhanced flexibility.
• Responding to the skills gap
1. Up-skilling / on-the-job training (74%).
2. Career development planning (45%).
3. Mentoring (36%).
4. General recruitment (36%).
5. Professional certifications (31%).
6. Headhunting (18%).
7. Suitable apprentices (17%).
8. Relevant professional body membership (11%).
• Only 12% of IT leaders feel they have the resources to achieve their IT goals in 2019
• 74% would use upskilling to fill a capability gap
• In terms of addressing the capability gaps, the survey had this outcome:

• Upskilling / on the job training 74%.
• Career development planning 45%.
• Mentoring 36%.
• General recruitment 36%.
• Professional qualifications 31%.
• Headhunting 18%.
• Finding suitable apprentices 17%.
• Relevant professional body membership 11%.