Build organizational capacity to make orbit-shifts
Organizations
need to not just reskill or upskill their workforce; they have to fundamentally
repurpose them.
Ingenuity of human thoughts, leading to mind-blowing breakthrough business opportunities and possibilities, can never be replaced by bots. That the mundane and day-to-day is taken care of by the ‘wired’ organism — AI, bots and machines floating over Clouds; it’s time to unleash the organization and people towards making Orbit-shifts. The organism is getting lots of love and affection from businesses and its spreading fast. The possibility of a full blown colonization seems very real — quite an unsettling thought. However, this change, like any change, presents us with exciting opportunities, only if we choose to see and embrace it. The most seductive and powerful of these opportunities is ‘Building an innovative workforce’. With the right culture, practices and methods, systems and structures, an innovative workforce will be able to conceive, pursue and execute game-changing leaps and transformative solutions leading to quantum impact.
2.
Will L&D be replaced by a chatbot soon?
Technology, as tempting as
it may seem, is not a solve-it-all; L&D professionals will need to invest
significant effort in translating technology into a meaningful experience for
the learner
Most
of us in Learning & Development field battle with technology every day and
the role it should (ideally) play in our lives as HR professionals and even
more so in the lives of our employees. Many solutions exist in the market
and we are often tempted by the idea that a ‘Big Bright Technology Enabled
Future’ will bring answers to all issues. But the reality is – it probably will
not. Technology will solve our problem of energy-draining automated tasks
that can easily be ‘taught’ to and outsourced to a machine (just the way we did
decades ago on the manufacturing lines). But it will not be the silver bullet
that solves all our L&D issues. As the field of corporate knowledge becomes
increasingly fragmented, technology is a welcome ingredient of simplifying
tasks like identifying the right content, tracking the learner’s consumption or
facilitating connections within peer groups or reaching out to experts.
3.
Learning
landscapes of the future
The increasing use of digital technologies and the
imminent rise of intelligent technologies have increased the focus on the
preparedness of organizations to adopt and adapt to the changes brought by the
Fourth Industrial Revolution. What paradigm shifts will this cause in the
L&D space?
We are amidst
uberization of the workforce. Organizations are becoming agile and so is the
workforce. From liquid workforce, talent on demand, independent workers to an
app-driven labor market — these are the new norms that are and will make an
impact on everything — including the traditional learning models. And this is
the kind of disruption we are experiencing in a hyper connected world that is
driven by innovation. So, how will IoT impact L&D professionals? What
specific learning technologies will dominate and enable the Internet of Things?
How can these technologies create new, innovative learning experiences for
employees? How IoT may change the roles, responsibilities, and rules of running
your learning organization? In a bid to seek answers to such questions, we
reached out to thought leaders in the L&D space and asked them what they
think about the changes that the 4IR is generating, and what it would do to the
L&D space.
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