By Bankole Orimisan
Human
Resource practitioners have been charged to adopt technology as a skill to
drive business operations, enhance learning and decision-making processes that
would raise profitability for businesses growth.
Experts
at the second edition of Human Resource Leaders breakfast forum and the
unveiling of a Learning and Development Benchmark Survey, organised by a
capacity building firm, DigitalJewels, stressed that businesses across the globe
continue to face various and diverse forms of challenges.
Dean,
Lagos Business School, Dr. Enase Okonedo, in her paper titled, "Learning
and Development: An Impact Assessment", noted that the need for a
continually improving, more dynamic and skillfully up-to-date workforce is
increasingly making learning a critical priority for business.
The landmark Digital Jewels Learning and
Development Survey themed, 'Learn and Thrive', revealed that fresh challenges
to L& D are being posed by technological advancement, customers'
expectations, the competition, bargaining power of suppliers and threats of
substitutes products, but the skills required to address them are not being
developed at the same pace and proportion.
The Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer,
DigitalJewels, Adedoyin Odunfa, who gave an insight into the new survey said
that the survey was designed to assist government agencies and organizations to
reflect on their current practices and identify key areas for change.
According to her, Nigeria's
L&D practice is still in the early stages of development and lacking
maturity. The challenging economic environment of the past few years has had a
significant impact on the resources available for learning and development in
many organizations and this is not expected to abate in the short run.
Ironically there is an
increasing shortage of requisite skill. New skills need to be acquired and
continuous update is required by a vast majority of the workforce in order to
confront organisational challenges for improved RoI.
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