UAE business leaders are prioritising digital transformation due to COVID-19: study

UAE business leaders are prioritising digital transformation due to COVID-19: study

A new IBM study of C-suite executives based in the UAE revealed that nearly five in ten responding organisations have are increasingly prioritising digital transformation over the next two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to the study, participating businesses are also seeing more clearly the critical role people play in driving their ongoing transformation. Leaders surveyed called out organisational complexity, inadequate skills and employee burnout as the biggest hurdles to overcome - both today and in the next two years. In the UAE, 76 percent of the executives surveyed believe they have been helping their employees learn the skills needed to work in a new way and that they are