Skills Intelligence Platforms: What IDC Research Says About Building a Verified Workforce

Bold claim: According to IDC, only 30% of organizations worldwide consider themselves ready for AI adoption and for most, the top barrier isn't budget or infrastructure. It's skills.

That number is striking. What's more striking is how few organizations have a reliable way to find out which side of that line they're on. Résumés, certifications, and course completions tell you what people have done. They don't tell you what people can actually do and in an AI-driven environment, that's the difference between a workforce that experiments and one that executes.

Skills intelligence platforms are closing that gap: replacing assumption with evidence, and giving leaders verified, defensible data on workforce capability across the entire talent lifecycle.

Join Gina Smith, PhD, Research Director, IT Skills for Digital Business at IDC, and Taylor Sullivan, Head of Product at Workera (PhD, IO Psychology), for a live fireside chat on what the latest IDC research shows and what it takes to build a workforce that can actually deliver.

You'll leave knowing:

• Why skills gaps are the #1 barrier to AI execution — and what verified skills data reveals that traditional signals miss
• What "human skills for the AI era" really means in practice, and why they're harder to assess than technical skills but just as critical
• How to evaluate the skills tech stack: where broad workforce planning tools fall short and where verified intelligence begins