Skills shortage stories
Security and privacy worries are pushing more firms towards contractors, with AI and cyber skills among the hardest to hire in Australia and New Zealand.
Companies are missing out on returns from AI and other new tools because staff training and change management are lagging behind.
The programme aims to fill a shortage of engineers able to turn AI pilots into live business systems, backed by USD $100 million.
Enterprise buyers are moving AI security tools into live operations as staffing shortages and alert overload push automation deeper into the SOC.
Hiring is tightening in Australia's east coast states as a AUD $150 billion data centre build-out lifts demand for trades and technical staff.
Employees feel more productive using AI, but many say they still lack clear guidance on how it fits company goals and career paths.
Many firms are still exposed to faster AI-driven attacks, with Logicalis finding 64 per cent lack mature round-the-clock security operations.
The report says threat intelligence teams could benefit from wider hiring pools as women bring skills from fields from marketing to the military.
A weak workforce skills base has left Britain behind peers, despite the strong policy and infrastructure for AI.
The repeat honour could help Cognizant recruit talent as it expands AI training and plans to hire 1,500 US college graduates.
The service targets a tight hiring market, promising faster placements and lower costs for finance teams struggling to fill skilled roles.
Yet fewer than half now have an AI governance policy, as businesses pour more money into transformation projects and agentic AI.
Rising cloud update cycles are leaving many enterprise IT teams unable to verify critical software changes before they hit operations.
The partnerships are meant to tackle fragmented project data and help architects, engineers and students build digital skills across the region.
Australian IT leaders facing tighter governance and cyber risks may gain more automated oversight as blueAPACHE reworks support around business outcomes.
Demand for AI and data skills is pushing up pay in Singapore, even as more employers plan wage freezes or smaller increases in 2027.
Most UK security chiefs say AI has tilted the cyber fight towards attackers, as critical flaw fixes still take more than a week.
Australia's cyber jobs shortage is pushing employers to judge practical performance and incident readiness more than certificates and titles alone.
Public bodies and mid-market firms in New Zealand can now use a single managed cyber service to cut tool sprawl and relieve overstretched IT teams.
Nearly half of Canadian organisations say they are behind on modernisation, as legacy systems, budgets and approvals slow upgrades.