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Work Skills Keeping Up?

Tony Karrer

In New Work and New Work Skills , I discuss the fact that most of us have not participated in formal learning since college on foundational knowledge work skills - especially metacognitive skills. Our work skills cannot sit still. And how important is this? We are struggling to keep up.

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Data on Big Data

Marcia Conner

Demand for the services of these workers will grow as organizations continue to seek ways to improve efficiency and control costs. 6Trillion: Big data cost. ( 900 Billion/year: cost of lowered employee productivity and reduced innovation from information overload. CAGR through 2015. ( Radicati Group /pdf).