Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan11 Apr 2016

Ep 80: Education And Skills For The Fourth Industrial Revolution

We are currently in the midst of an industrial revolution with an exponential pace of change and it is disrupting industry in every country. This revolution is different from the past three in terms of velocity, scope, and impact. It is a digital revolution, characterized by a fusion of technology that is impacting every aspect of how we work and how we live, creating threats and opportunities. Skills that we learned in formal education are now becoming irrelevant. Employees should be prepared to completely reskill themselves.

I recently spoke with Sandeep Dadlani, the Executive Vice President and Head of Americas for Infosys, on what is going to be required from employees of the future to succeed and thrive. Infosys is a massive, quick growing global consulting firm. Sandeep has been with them for over 15 years in a variety of roles. They have studied the 4th industrial revolution and the impact it is going to have thoroughly. Infosys believes the answer to the challenges we face in this revolution is education. With technology evolving so quickly, corporate training programs are behind the times and desperately need to be updated. We should focus on education in areas like computers, data, artificial intelligence, and designed thinking to enable consistent training for the workforce. Learning should be a creative, clever environment that allows employees to prove that they are innovators. Managers just need to listen to the future... youth already has a good idea about what they want to be trained on. What You Will Learn In This Episode:

World Economic Forum
What is the 4th Industrial Revolution
Amplifying human potential
Skills gap
Emerging markets versus the United States
Education and training in the workforce
Gender divide

Links From The Episode: Sandeep Dadlani on Twitter Infosys Report on Amplifying Human Potential (Music by Ronald Jenkees)

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