#402 – NEW WORK WORLDS – GREG HUTCHINS PE CERM

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There are lots of lessons to learn from Amazon. Never stop innovating or questioning the fundamentals of your business. Disrupt yourself before others do.
Brad Stone – Journalist & Author

Consulting firms, academics, and consultants are developing Future Of Work models. Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) developed a scenario called the Future of Work: A Journey to 2022. The premise of the study is: “disruptive innovations are creating new industries and business models, and destroying old ones.” (‘The Future of Work: A Journey to 2022’, PwC, 2014).

 PwC outlined three distinct worlds of work: Orange, Green, and Blue. Continue reading

#401 – AI EATS JOBS! – GREG HUTCHINS PE CERM

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I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that. So we need to be very careful.
Elon Musk – Entrepreneur

Artificial intelligence (AI) and robots conjure images of killer robots like the Terminator movie. Continue reading

#400 – KILLER AI AND RISK BASED, DECISION MAKING – GREG HUTCHINS PE CERM

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What happens if an autonomous AI robot has preemptive authority to use deadly force to ensure its safety or the public’s safety ?  We are not too far from this when autonomous robots will have risk based, problem solving and decision making capabilities and even statutory authorities. Continue reading

#394 – UNIVERSITY GRADUATES DISRUPTION – GREG HUTCHINS PE CERM

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Eighty-five (85%) of the jobs today’s students will be doing in 2030 haven’t been invented yet.
Institute for the Future

Now, let’s look at university graduates’ marketability? Why are so many Gen-Zer’s and millennials unemployed or simply underemployed? One major reason is many recent college graduates are simply not prepared for work. They are not FOW-ready or work-ready. Gartner, the consulting organization, said:

“Only 20 percent of employees have the skills needed for both their current role and their future career”. Continue reading

#393 – HIGHER EDUCATION DISRUPTION – GREG HUTCHINS PE CERM

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If colleges were businesses they would be right for hostile takeovers, complete with serious costcutting and painful reorganizations.
US News and World Report

COVID has forced universities to do online teaching. What’s the value add of spending $70K (USD) for online instruction, when you paid for sports, in-class instruction and the college experience? In 2021 and 2022, we’ll find out as university students have been taught online for a year or even longer. Continue reading