Great Skills Gap : OptimizingTalentfor the Future of Work

"An extraordinary confluence of forces stemming from automation and digital technologies is transforming both the world of work and the ways we educate current and future employees to contribute productively to the workplace. The Great Skills Gap opens with the premise that the exploding scope and pace of technological innovation in the digital age is fast transforming the fundamental nature of work. Due to these developments, the skills and preparation that employers need from their talent pool are shifting. The accelerated pace of evolution and disruption in the competitive business landscape demands that workers be not only technically proficient, but also exceptionally agile in their capacity to think and act creatively and quickly learn new skills. This book explores how these transformative forces are-or should be-driving innovations in how colleges and universities prepare students for their careers. Focused on the impact of this confluence of forces at the nexus of work and higher education, the book's contributors-an illustrious group of leading educators, prominent employers, and other thought leaders-answer profound questions about how business and higher education can best collaborate in support of the twenty-first century workforce"--

Equipping a new generation with the skills needed in the automation age / Susan Lund and Bryan Hancock -- The role of citizen developers in developing technological literacy / Lance Braunstein -- The future of work : four difficult questions I ask myself as an employer / Matthew Pittinsky -- Why geography is so important / Michael L. Ulica -- Enabling a high-performing, human-centered organization in Pfizer's Upjohn division / Amrit Ray, Lu Hong, and Trish White -- How the future of work impacts the workforce of technical organizations / Gregory L. Robinson -- Corporate learning and development has a vital role to play in the robotics revolution -- is it ready? / Uli Heitzlhofer -- Supporting unlearning to enable upskilling / Chris Dede -- Higher education's changing faces : serving STEM learners for a lifetime / Yakut Gazi and Nelson Baker -- The future of business education : new economies of automation, certification, and scale / Anne Trumbore -- Back to the future : fragile workers, higher education, and the future knowledge economy / Earl Lewis, Alford Young, Jr., Justin Shaffner, and Julie Arbit -- Evolution of the liberal arts / Christopher Mayer -- The evolution of liberal…