INNOVATIONS AND INSIGHTS
HOW TO DEVELOP THE SKILLS NEEDED FOR NEW AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
ACCORDING TO THE 2020 FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION BENCHMARK BY KPMG, LESS THAN 40% OF AUSTRALIAN LEADERS FEEL THEY HAVE THE STAFF WITH THE NECESSARY SKILLS TO IMPLEMENT NEW TECHNOLOGIES.
(Source: KPMG)
Here the AIPM speaks to Piers Hogarth-Scott and Shane O’Sullivan, Partners at KPMG, to discuss the opportunities that Industry 4.0 provides to organisations and how project managers can ensure they have the capabilities needed for successful delivery using disruptive technologies. 20
THE NEXT TRANSFORMATIONAL ERA As part of KPMG’s Digital Delta Leadership Team you both have a large amount of experience working with contemporary technologies. How would you describe Industry 4.0 and what opportunities does it offer to organisations? Piers: When we talk about the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the sort of technologies we are referring to are Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, robotics, quantum computing, augmented/
