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Degreed Experiments with Emerging Technologies

Degreed

So, for the past year, my mind has been racing thinking about the impact of all these emerging technologies for L&D. This will be a blog series (and hopefully a two-way conversation) geared toward exploring the suitability of emerging technologies for the challenges in L&D. But I do care a lot about how we learn at work.

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What Is a Skills Taxonomy? And Why Is Your Competency Model Obsolete?

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A skills taxonomy can help you make sense of what your people can offer as you work toward achieving business goals. A skills taxonomy is: A hierarchical system of classification that can categorize and organize skills in groups or “skill clusters.” They’re dynamic and constantly updated as new skills emerge and others fade.

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Skills Taxonomy & Why it Matters to Businesses

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What is a skills taxonomy? A skills taxonomy is a hierarchical classification of skill sets, which can be used to organize and describe the knowledge within an industry. To put it in the most simple words, a taxonomy is a categorization of things. Keep in mind an individual’s growth is a company’s growth too.

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Creating a Common Language for Skills that Drives the Future of Work

Degreed

I’ve seen this firsthand, as Degreed works with companies all over the world like Cisco and Unilever to help them create strong foundational skill taxonomies that support successful skill strategies. Contrast that with skill taxonomies that focus more on what people can actually do for a particular job.

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The Degreed Vision: Automation, AI, and a Skills-first Future

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It’ll be useful to support employees on the go, like deskless workers, who can use voice-to-text or send photos to the AI chat thread from a mobile device. Filling many of the emerging skill gaps requires expert guidance. It means supporting a collaborative, practice-based learning environment that values feedback.

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Plug Skill Gaps & Make Economic Downturn Your L&D Opportunity

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Once you know what new skills gaps have emerged, you can upskill your people in areas that align to your organization’s emerging — and probably more cost effective — business priorities. To perform a skills gap analysis, you will need a skills taxonomy , which is an evolving list of skills for critical roles within your organization.

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AI, Engagement, Personalization & the Future of Content: 2022 Fall Conference Wrap Up

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It’s always so interesting to see what’s top of mind across the industry, which new trends are emerging — and which trends are still going strong.” After years of projections and speculation, practical uses for these emerging technologies in the enterprise content and learning space are finally materializing.