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The skills that many of us older folks (whom I will more blandly refer to as "employers") find missing in the younger generation are fairly well known. These include: communication skills, critical thinking skills, project management skills, teamwork skills, writing skills, and numeracy skills. Many reports on this skill gap cite surveys that measure employer perception of these skill gaps, not actual empirical measurement of the employees' skills. While studies that examine what each generation of students learns as a result of education shows increasing not decreasing knowledge, it is plausible that skill gaps can and do exist, even above and beyond the mythical perceptions each older generation may have about the younger one.
This Cutter IT Journal issue presents five wide-ranging, insightful articles on the possible technological, management, and business skills that executives, managers, and workers in organizations (private and public sector, large and small) will need in the 2020-2025 timeframe as a result of the ceaseless improvement in information systems and their core technologies. Not a client? Download a complimentary copy now.
In this article, I discuss the various forces influencing skill demand and evolution and their implications for organizations and individuals. I also present a model for evaluating and continuously managing the organization's skill portfolio to derive competitive market advantage. The way work is done is changing, and managing workforce skills in sync with market signals will continue to define successful companies.
This Executive Update explores the intricate link that exists between Lean and Agile. Such exploration can reveal the hidden synergies between the two approaches, which can benefit projects and organizations in practice. In order to understand this synergy, however, it is also important to understand the differences between Lean and Agile.
Although currently limited in its application, streaming analytics technology is going to experience a lot more use as the IoT begins to advance due to its ability to ingest and analyze very high volumes of continuously streaming data (both unstructured and semistructured) in real time. Basically, both of these characteristics are key for sensor data management systems.
