High trust organisations seek a digital advantage despite barriers

Published by BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, Unlocking Digital Advantage in High Trust Sectors addresses the challenges faced by over 120 senior IT and business decision-makers in the UK’s aerospace, government and defence organisations regarding the use of technology to gain an advantage, which is considered vital (85 per cent) to protecting UK society and maintaining the public’s trust.

James Hatch, chief digital officer, BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, said high trust organisations are responsible for handling the country’s most sensitive and secret data, which provides the double challenge of accelerating their digital advantage while continuing to deliver critical value to society reliably and responsibly.

Barriers to gaining the digital advantage include hiring and retaining suitably skilled staff plus outside influences such as the so-called Great Resignation and changes brought about by the pandemic.

A lack of confidence around current digital capabilities saw 70 per cent of respondents indicating the need to ‘completely overhaul’ or ‘significantly improve’ their ability to innovate.