To be future-proof and fill this gap, companies have to invest in their talent management and succession planning processes. To achieve this, companies need a well-defined talent strategy for the digital age and business leaders need to take action when it comes to reskilling the workforce. Talent management should become an integral part of a company’s culture and should be advocated on every level of the organization. Here's a 5 step model to build a supportive culture around talent management (from Bradford Bell, Associate Professor of HR Studies at Cornell ILR University) 1. (Re-)Define Talent Given the current and upcoming evolutions of the Industry 4.0, companies will need new types of leaders.The digital skills gap is defined by a combination of specific hard and soft skills. To overcome this gap, companies need to redefine their ideas of talent. Client centricity, emotional intelligence, willingness to change the ‘status quo’, the ability to carry out p...