Designing the Paradigm Pattern of Digital Talents Development: evidence from Iran Banking Industry

A new trend in human resources, especially in the last decade, is the issue of digital talent. This event is certainly influenced by the evolution of the digital economy and the effects that digital technologies such as artificial intelligence have left on the business environment. As little research has been done on digital talent, there is still insufficient knowledge on what digital talent is and what to do about it. Therefore, this study, as one of the earliest studies in the field of digital talent, has investigated this issue in the banking industry. The research approach in this study is grounded theory. Data were obtained through interviews. At the end of the research, the extraction of 326 common first-order open source codes (out of 434 first-order codes), 72 second-order open source codes (resulting from common open source coding), 24 axial categories and 5 selective categories including: Philosophical and organizational orientations of digital business; Cognitive mapping of digital talent based on digitization initiatives; Recognize situational patterns and perspectives with the aim of understanding environmental events; Orientations of strategic actions in the development of DTs; And improved the level of individual and organizational performance.