TODAY, COMPANIES EXPECT NICHE SKILLS AND PROFICIENCY IN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES FROM STUDENTS

摘要

If you look at the ICT skills landscape, what according to you are the 2 challenges the industry is facing now? The first big challenge is this: In this age of near constant technology adoption and disruption, we do not have enough technology talent globally. The speed of disruption is compounding the problem. In the last five decades, every big technology disruption - mainframe, client server or the lnternet - was followed by a long period of stability. This gave companies and the academia enough time to adjust to the changes. But now, we are seeing an unprecedented confluence of multiple disruptive technologies such as automation, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, augmented reality and virtual reality, big data and analytics, cloud, and Blockchain. There is going to be no in-between lull and times of stability. This makes education and skilling, both within companies and in the academia, even more challenging.