Digital Fit Workforce is the Enabler to Digital Transformation
Authors: Al Ameri Waad Saeed , Kohinoor Sabeer , Al Awadhi Khalid 
Published: October 2022

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have taken the business community by storm over the last decade. The result of this rapid growth has been an industry with massive potential. The AI community has struggled to develop talent as quickly as the talents are needed. Hence, ADNOC have created the Digital Fit Workforce stream part of its digital transformation journey to bridge this gap. This stream is designed to drive the organization's digital capabilities and ensure employees have the required skills to leverage AI and other advanced digital technologies to achieve greater operational efficiencies, strengthen performance and create greater value from every barrel of oil produced. This paper will demonstrate the details of the organization which recently developed Digital Fit Workforce stream under the digital transformation asset driving the people capabilities programs and required skilling and uplifting necessities.

AI and digitalization are touching each and every personal across the value chain of any organization. The Digital Fit Workforce stream will be able to overcome the challenges caused by the field's rapid pace of innovation and growth which sources the gap on skill profiles of the workplaces personal. The stream was developed with five dimensions which cover the As-Is assessment of the current roles and responsibilities, what are the segments and the required uplifting capabilities which mapped to the training programs and the forecast setup of the digital organizational structure.

The Digital Fit Workforce program is carried out in five dimensions starting from assessing the current training programs and capabilities by analyzing the current training programs to maximize existing training content reutilization, ensure continuity with existing plans, and inform new training plan definition. The second dimension is Stakeholder key segments and roles where 13 segments were identified across the ladder and organization wide. Identify key segments and roles require education to enable digital transformation, tailoring training programs and delivery format, creating learning journeys and delivery formats for key stakeholder segments and roles. The 3rd dimension, deals with Developing target digital capabilities for key segment and roles, including proficiency levels by steering all the 21 capabilities which is broken down into 10 being functional and 11 Digital. The 4th dimension encompasses the Learning journey which has been developed and detailed for each of the capabilities. At the end of each journey, the employee will receive a certificate of achievement which is link to their career development profile. The last dimension deals with the actual engagement plan and its implementation by leveraging on the organization digital online academes best practices in its all dimensions from upstream, midstream and downstream.

Digital Fit Workforce is a key element to the digital transformation by targeting the skill requirements of the next digital era. People development goes hand in hand with the technologies and new ways of working deployments and adopting. This stream is setting the foundation and the competencies requirements that will shape the future of the digital transformation and will give the momentum for smoother change management strategy.