IDG Contributor Network: Reskilling for digital...or, can a leopard really change its spots?

Within my organization – a large United Nations body – we embarked on our digital journey a couple of years back. Our IT Division re-positioned itself from one providing traditional backend services to one using digital technologies to support the mandate of the organization which is to achieve food security for all.We initially created a small team from existing IT staff and reoriented them towards the business in our headquarters to promote our new digital strategy. This team focu