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Four Skills Tomorrow’s Innovation Workforce Will Need
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Four Skills Tomorrow’s Innovation Workforce Will Need

The young digerati will lead innovation, but they’ll also need to develop business awareness, an entrepreneurial attitude, bottom-line focus, and ethical intelligence.

Tucker J. Marion, Sebastian K. Fixson and Greg Brown
MIT Sloan Management Review, 2020
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The world is changing at a breakneck pace. Can you tell where your company will be in a year? Three years? Ten? You can’t predict the future, but an assessment of your staff’s skills can give you a good idea of how prepared you are for disruption from robotics, AI, virtual reality, and a host of other technological advancements. Cultivate four key aptitudes in your workforce to gain a competitive advantage.

Take-Aways

  • Digital, biological and physical advances are leading to a mismatch between workers’ skills and employers’ demands.
  • Identifying and cultivating the required aptitudes will allow companies to grow and adapt over the long term.
  • New structures and processes can help your company ensure that employees with the necessary skills will thrive.

About the Authors

Greg Brown is the director of business development at global software company PTC. Tucker Marion is a professor at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business. Sebastian Fixson is an associate dean of innovation at Babson College. 

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