Perspectives on Technology Skill Development [Audiobook]

By Stacey Rivers, Director of Tech Human Capital Management, WarnerMedia

How effectively you acquire a new skill is specific to your learning style, which is the ability to retain information in a way that is practical and adaptable. "Learning" is not passive; it's a skill that requires the same retention process you endured as a child, just at a faster pace.

By Gary Beach, Publisher Emeritus, CIO Magazine. Columnist, WSJ and CIO Journal. Author, U.S. Technology Skills Gap.

All is not well in the global talent arena. The digital "skills gap" that emerged last decade is widening into a chasm. According to International Data Corp's FutureScape 2019 report, two million jobs in artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things, cybersecurity and blockchain will remain unfilled by 2023 due to a lack of human talent.

By Amanda Richardson, Chief Executive Officer, CoderPad

It's funny to me that businesses need to build a case for investing in tech skill development. In the reality of our industry, why wouldn't we want to learn new things? Why wouldn't we want to learn how to do things better, how to keep our teams engaged, how to keep people growing and evolving?

By Tony Saldanha, President, Transformant. Former Vice President of IT and Global Business Services, Procter & Gamble.

If your company is going to survive the fourth industrial revolution, you'll need to upskill your people. If that sounds like an absolute statement, it's because my research and experience as a Fortune 25 executive over three decades has taught me that without company-wide, continual commitment to technology skill development, chances are that your organization won't survive.

By Aaron Skonnard, co-Founder and CEO of Pluralsight

"You can't hire your way out of a skills shortage. Your team can't Google their way to proficiency. If you held in-person training before every new project, you'd never deliver anything."

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