Self-learning Ability to Cope with Changing Skill Demand
Skills for the future and future of work are fraught with pervasive uncertainties. According to World Economic Forum predictions made in 2020, by 2025, as high as 50 percent of…
Education & Skills
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Design Thinking Skills – for winning innovation race
Besides the good acceptance of design thinking skills for human-centric innovation, why is a record number of startups failing? Why are innovators suffering from the burn of the failure of…
Empathy Skills – for systematic ideation
Despite having so much advancement in science, technology, publications, and patents, why are we witnessing astronomical failure rates in startups? Why are more than 80 percent of product innovation retiring…
Soft Skills – vital for winning innovation race
We are all after innovations for improving products, processes, and organizations. This is our core capability of finding a scalable growth path. A recent study finds that 84% of business…
Innovation Skills – turning ideas into wealth
It’s easy for rural farmers in Bangladesh to generate and deploy ideas in producing economic value. But why are thousands of startups all over the world failing to turn their…
Skill Development – endless upskilling and reskilling
Skill development focuses on developing a learned ability to perform certain things well. Understanding the necessity of skill development is not difficult. But for upskilling and reskilling, should rely on…
Automating Repetitive and Routine Jobs—illusive in nature
There is a common belief that repetitive and routine jobs are targets of automation. The prediction of the disappearance of such jobs makes many of us nervous. However, not all…
Education without Passion Stalls Development—lessons from the history
The passion for perfection leads to the production of ideas and their integration into products and processes. Subsequently, it leads to offering us increasingly better products at less cost to…
World Divides into Two Halves—idea and object suppliers
From many perspectives, we can divide the world. From the perspective of wealth creation, it divides into two halves. The first half supplies ideas to process objects supplied by the…
Megatrends Shaping Future of Work
Often, job loss prediction dominates the discussion of the future of work. The future of work is not only relevant to a number of jobs but also types. Moreover, task…
Automation and Robotics Blocking Upskilling
Upskilling is a conventional means for increasing employability and salary. Through on-job training and experience, people keep upskilling themselves. Hence, they deserve a salary increase every year. This appears to…
Disadvantages of eLearning in Robot Era—does automation make online education of no use?
Online education has been on the rise. There are many advantages of eLearning. Often cited benefits are cost-saving, access to high-quality learning materials, and learning at your own pace. There…