Workforce digital skills support for employers
How to build a digitally capable and AI ready workforce
FutureDotNow helps organisations understand their workforce digital skills gap, identify what to do next and take practical action.
Start with the challenge facing your organisation. We will help you find the most useful next step
A clear route forward
Digital capability affects every part of your organisation. Where is your organisation today?
Essential digital skills help people use technology well and create stronger foundations for productivity, cyber resilience, AI adoption and successful change. Over half of the workforce don’t have all the essential digital skills for work, so understanding where your workforce is today is critical.
Our Organisational Maturity Framework shows the stages employers typically move through, from identifying the starting point of their workforce to improving and scaling a workforce programme. You can use it to help understand where your organisation is and find targeted resources to help you progress
The question is no longer
“Do we have a digital skills challenge?”
The more useful question is
“Where are we today, and what should we do next?”
Taking action.
Find your next step.
Select the stage in the Organisation Maturity Frame work that best reflects where you are today. You’ll find Information on each stage, including questions that organisations are typically seeking to answer, a selection of free resources to help you as well as extra content available to members of the FutureDotNow community.
Stage 0
Is this really a problem for my organisation?
Questions we can help you answer include:
- Are digitally native employees already equipped?
- Is this primarily an IT or cyber issue?
- Why does this matter to our bottom line or growth?
- Is the national evidence relevant to our organisation?
To answer these we recommend you start with trusted evidence
Workforce Readiness Report
Get a personalised digital and AI readiness report for your organisation
Essential Digital Skills Framework
Explore the skills and tasks in the Essential Digital Skills Framework
Stage 1
Identify your starting point
How to measure digital skills levels in your organisation and identify priority groups.
Questions we can help you answer include:
- Are digitally native employees already equipped?
- Is this primarily an IT or cyber issue?
- Why does this matter to our bottom line or growth?
- Is the national evidence relevant to our organisation?
Resources to help you measure and prioritise
Colleague self-assessment guide
Help employees understand and improve their digital skills
Essential Digital Skills for Work
Explore digital skills data, insights and sector benchmarks
Assessment templates & tools
Practical tools to capture findings, identify gaps and agree next actions.
How we help organisations take action
Practical support to help your organisation move forward.
FutureDotNow members gain access to resources and regular opportunities to learn and connect, helping organisations improve the digital capability and confidence of their people.
Understand. Measure. Take action
We help employers understand the challenge, measure workforce capability and find relevant support to close the gap.
Understand the challenge
Use trusted evidence and clear definitions to understand what the digital skills gap could mean for your people and your organisation.
Measure where you are today
Build a clearer picture of workforce capability, identify priority gaps and focs attention where it matters most.
Take practical action
Use relevant tools, guidance and shared learning to improve the digital capability and confidence of your workforce.
Getting started
A straightforward start to membership.
We help new members understand where to begin, focus their attention and start using the support most relevant to them.
Day 1 - 30
Understand
- Review your maturity stage
- Assess current capability
- Identify priority gaps
- Nominate an internal lead
Day 31 - 60
Focus
- Review recommendations
- Prioritise interventions
- Build internal support
- Define success measures
Day 61 - 90
Take action
- Use targeted resources
- Join a member session
- Build a practical roadmap
- Agree the next progress review
Ready to take the next step?
Build the digital capability and confidence of your workforce.
Explore the support available through FutureDotNow and join a coalition of employers taking action on workforce digital skills.
