Skills Shortage

Business Challenge

The shortage of technical skills is not a new challenge, and is one faced globally by all industries.

This shortage makes recruitment a struggle; there is high demand, low supply, driving costs of skills up.

It is estimated that by 2030 we should expect a global human talent shortage of more than 85 million people. If left unchecked, the talent shortage could result in about $8.5 trillion in unrealised annual revenues.

The EU alone wants 20 million technology specialists in comparison with the 9 million it had in 2021.

The challenge not only lies in finding and recruiting these skills, but also in retaining them. How can organisations mitigate the risks of losing these specific skills and expert knowledge.

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The Solution

These are some ways you can combat the skills shortage:

Automation

By automating processes, companies can reduce their dependence on skilled labour. In addition, the quality of their processes and data can be improved and production costs reduced by removing the need to fix errors from manual data entry and collaboration.

This reduces dependencies on individuals who may be the only person in an organisation with knowledge of a process. By recording and automating this knowledge, organisations can retain staff expertise in the event the individual leaves or moves around the company.

Responsiv has a number of automation solutions that can be tailored to an organisation’s specific business need, including self-hosted (Responsiv Unity) and cloud based (Responsiv Cloud) solutions.

This is optimised through Responsiv Consulting; discovering and recording existing processes is the first step in creating efficient and effective automated processes.

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Third-party Support

This is a two-fold solution, including

- Third-party support and resource capacity
- Managed services

Third party-support provides skills that are not permanent staff. This relieves the need for organisations to recruit skills or find budget for these full-time skilled individuals. They can be used when needed and only when they are needed.

Responsiv offer third-party remote support through Responsiv Assist. Using a credit-based ticketing system we provide expert skills in IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, and OpenSource software as well as our own product suite including cloud and self-hosted platforms.

Managed services are a way of outsourcing responsibility for managing and supporting a solution. It means the supplier develops, deploys, hosts, and manages the solution, removing the strain from the organisation.

Responsiv offer managed services for a range of our product solutions, but most commonly with our Responsiv Cloud Platforms, which we host and manage on behalf of our customers. This means we upgrade and patch the platform when required, respond to any incidents to reduce downtime, and we can even float support to include any deployed applications.

Responsiv Consulting can be utilised with the skills to develop and deploy processes and applications to run on the chosen platform. Our continuous improvement bundles provide a way to easily manage budgets and access skills in an efficient manner to continuously develop and optimise your applications.

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