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Future-proofing skills in the technology industry

Learning Pool

While automation and AI will produce many efficiencies – which include making some roles and people redundant – they will also, by transforming business activities, create the need for new roles and new categories of knowledge workers. This gap is affecting areas like cybersecurity, productivity, competitiveness, and customer service.

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Concept Worker

Tony Karrer

But then he describes how we've really moved on past that to a new age where the dominant value for most organizations are created by high-end knowledge workers working on concepts. But, I actually think we should be focused on the emphasis on the type of knowledge work and the type of workers.

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Formal Learning All the Way.Baby

Kapp Notes

The processes have been formalized, in knowledge work, many of the processes are formalized. We like to think knowledge workers spend all day "problem-solving" but in reality they spend all day finding out what procedure should be followed in what situation.

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A Brief History of AI

Learningtogo

The highest anticipated spending is for: automated customer service agents. digital assistants for enterprise knowledge workers. automated threat intelligence and prevention systems. sales process recommendation and automation. automated preventive maintenance. pharmaceutical research and discovery.

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Traditional eLearning and Online Learning Course Paradigm is Not Effective

Instancy

Traditional eLearning and Online Learning Course Paradigm does not Match Knowledge-Worker Needs. However, end-users (knowledge-workers) are working in a very fast-paced and fast-changing environment and don’t have time to find specific information when they need it from within these eLearning courses.

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Survey Says: Your Employees Want Coaching and Mentoring

CLO Magazine

A recent study from Wainhouse Research found that the youngest workers and the oldest workers have similar preferences when it comes to workplace learning — and that all learners want a variety of approaches. A few suggestions for including these preferences in your learning strategy: Make learning employee-specific.

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Why Cloud Training is the Most Effective Way to Develop Your Employees

ReadyTech

In fact, a recent Gallup poll found that 43% of workers in the U.S. Unsurprisingly, knowledgeable workers have become harder to keep engaged with their jobs than ever before; they need more stimulation and opportunities for personal growth in order to feel fulfilled at work. are planning to look for new jobs in 2022.