Enabling Digital Transformations in the Workforce (CRADLE Connects Webinar)
Channel: Shermain Puah
Date: 2021-07-09

This is a recording of the CRADLE Connects Webinar that took place on 9th July 2021. We thank all participants who joined us for a meaningful sharing and discussion about digital transformation in the workforce. Our speakers from IAL and OCBC shared insightful perspectives about enabling effective digital transformation in the workplace, that is relevant to both academia and industry.

Sahara Sadik
Digital innovation, talent management and divergent opportunities

In this talk, Sahara will share findings from ongoing research that the process of digital innovation often grafts onto existing opportunities and inequalities. The start point of digital transformation is not the digital journey itself, but underlying organisational structures and assumptions of who is valued and trusted on this journey. Organisations with a generous view of their talent engage and empower their workforce very differently than those who operate with a limited view of talent. Leaders who are serious about enabling digital transformation in their organisation may have to disrupt their own views of their workforce, if they are serious about harnessing their human capital to capitalise on opportunities brought about by new technologies.

Dr. Jennifer Pei-Ling Tan
Future Smart Future Workforce: Forging a Transformative Learning Culture for Sustainable Growth

In this talk, Jen will share the journey taken by Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC), a major Asian financial service provider and employer, in building a transformative learning organisation for sustainable growth. Against key macro shifts in techno-economic landscapes that exert immense pressures on financial institutions (FIs), Jen will outline the distinctive approach taken by OCBC to invest in a strong learning culture to drive adaptivity, resilience and sustainable futures—for employees, the organisation and its wider ecosystem. OCBC’s unique approach is grounded upon the organisation’s broader purpose, values and goals for enduring change. She will close with a critical analysis of the key tensions experienced along this journey, in the hopes of stimulating dialogue and drawing collective insights that are meaningful for a wider community of social scientists, practitioners and policymakers vested in the global agenda of workplace and adult learning.

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