This document discusses skills that will be important for the future such as curiosity, enthusiasm, innovation, collaboration, explanation, humility, and diplomacy. It also discusses many trends that will impact the future including rapid population growth, aging populations, rising middle classes, and technological changes such as 3D printing, biotechnology, and telemedicine. Key areas that will be impacted include energy, portable power, and cities. Curation, analytics, vision, confidence, collaboration, communication, and lifelong learning are also highlighted as important future skills.
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2. CHARACTERISTICS :
CURIOSITY
ENTHUSIASM
INNOVATION
SELF STARTING
COLLABORATION
EXPLANATION
HUMILITY
DIPLOMACY
SKILLS FOR THE NEW AGE
BAER AND NASLUND IN CAMBRIDGE MARKETING REVIEW
6. 90 % of Business theory is internally
focused ( Green鍖eld )
10% is Marketing
Marketing delivers 3 times the value
added of any other strategy ( PA )
7. THE FUTURE AND SKILLS
IDEAS, LOST DECADE, NETWORKS, POST MODERNS, CURIOUS, CHINA SCENARIO,
22. VISION VISION
Wisdom Wisdom
10% 90%
Knowledge
20% Knowledge
Information
Information
30% Data
10%
Data
40 %
ACKOFFS ALLOCATION OF MENTAL
USE OF SEMANTIC WEB
SPACE
23. Generals and admirals (and symphony conductors and sports coaches and police) obsess
about continuous training. Why is it an almost dead certainty that in a random 30-minute
interview with a CEO you are unlikely to hear a word on this? I would hazard a guess that
most CEOs see an IT investment as a strategic necessity, but training expenses as a
necessary evil. This must be set on its ear, with training in its broadest sense placed atop
the enterprise agenda, on a par with capital expenditures. Moreover, the imaginativeness of
the training must be subject to a quantum leap
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