An Aging Workforce

By Keith L. Scott, MBA, PMP

An aging workforce and talent shortage are now emerging as the top risk facing government organizations. This is not isolated to government as the U.S. workforce is aging across all industries, but it has a larger impact in local, state, and federal government. In fact, 60 percent of government workers will be eligible to retire in 5 to 10 years as over 30 perfect of government workers are over 55 years of age. Government leaders must address the loss of institutional knowledge that will occur in the next five years.

Here are some fun facts of what CxOs are saying in a recent survey:
• 52% - We need some new types of talent in a few places in our organization
• 23% - We do not really need to change the types of talent that we have
• 16% - We need many new types of talent in large volume
• 9% - We need to completely raise the nature of our talent base

Government agencies that focus on improving their digital skills will mitigate the risks facing the imposing depletion of their workforce. In fact, 63% of CxOs are likely to change their business model in the next three years and have a management initiative to make their business more digital, collaborative and innovate. To move to “digital”, information technology is expected to drive the transformation. IT will focus on empowering a remote workforce, create secure collaborative environments, and automate workflow that provides a framework for continuous improvement. Government leaders must plan for continual change in the structures of their organization and how they deliver service value.

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Keith Scott is an accomplished IT and management consulting services leader with over 29 years of professional experience supporting local, state, and federal government agencies. His consulting experience includes internationally renowned firms such as Deloitte Consulting, LLP, and Gartner, Inc. Now, he is the CEO of a firm founded in 2013 – K.L. Scott & Associates, where he continues providing advisory services for the government’s mission-critical priorities. Mr. Scott is a proven results-oriented leader and has an excellent track record of delivering complex, time-sensitive, and critical transformation. As a trusted advisor and thought leader to government CxO and organizational leaders, Mr. Scott is often called upon when agencies seek to modernize technology, transform the workforce, enhance their citizen experience, develop a data-driven decision intelligence culture, and optimize business processes. Mr. Scott is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute. He has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from North Carolina A&T State University and a Master of Business Administration in Organizational Strategy from Mercer University. Mr. Scott is a certified Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt and holds a Business Analytics Certificate from the University of California Berkely – Haas School of Business.

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