{"id":56746,"date":"2016-09-15T12:32:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T16:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=56746"},"modified":"2016-09-15T12:35:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T16:35:46","slug":"how-to-prepare-for-the-technological-breakthroughs-megatrend-pwc-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2016\/09\/15\/how-to-prepare-for-the-technological-breakthroughs-megatrend-pwc-global\/","title":{"rendered":"How to prepare for the technological breakthroughs megatrend, & the 8 techs to start with [Huff Eckert, Bhardwaj, & Curran; PWC Global]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tech breakthroughs megatrend<\/strong><\/a>— from pwc.com by Vicki Huff Eckert, Sahil Bhardwaj, and Chris Curran; with thanks to Woontack Woo <\/a>for this resource\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n

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Given the sheer pace and acceleration of technological advances in recent years, business leaders can be forgiven for feeling dazed and perhaps a little frustrated. When we talked to CEOs as part of our annual Global CEO Survey, 61% of them told us they were concerned about the speed of technological change in their industries. Sure, more and more C-suite executives are genuinely tech-savvy – increasingly effective champions for their companies\u2019 IT vision – and more and more of them know that digital disruption can be friend as well as enemy. But it\u2019s fair to say that most struggle to find the time and energy necessary to keep up with the technologies driving transformation across every industry and in every part of the world.<\/p>\n

Not one catalyst, but several<\/strong>
\nHistory is littered with companies that have waited out the Next New Thing in the belief that it\u2019s a technology trend that won\u2019t amount to much, or that won\u2019t affect their industries for decades. Yet disruption happens. It\u2019s safe to say that the history of humankind is a history of disruption – a stream of innovations that have tipped the balance in favour of the innovators. In that sense, technological breakthroughs are the original megatrend. What\u2019s unique in the 21st century, though, is the ubiquity of technology, together with its accessibility, reach, depth, and impact.<\/p>\n

Business leaders worldwide acknowledge these changes, and have a clear sense of their significance. CEOs don\u2019t single out any particular catalyst that leads them to that conclusion. But we maintain that technological advancements are appearing, rapidly and simultaneously, in fields as disparate as healthcare and industrial manufacturing, because of the following concurrent factors…<\/p>\n

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From DSC:<\/em>
\nFor those of us working in K-20 as well as in the corporate training\/L&D space, how are we doing in getting people trained and ready to deal these developments?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Tech breakthroughs megatrend— from pwc.com by Vicki Huff Eckert, Sahil Bhardwaj, and Chris Curran; with thanks to Woontack Woo for this resource\u00a0 Excerpt: Given the sheer pace and acceleration of technological advances in recent years, business leaders can be forgiven for feeling dazed and perhaps a little frustrated. When we talked to CEOs as part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,26,435,356,224,819,112,200,159,143,95,391,419,180,55,74,44,437,480,20,460,206,253,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-3d","category-analytics","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-augmented-reality","category-blockchain","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-disruption","category-global-globalization","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-internet","category-leadership","category-pace-of-change","category-robotics","category-society","category-strategy","category-technology-general","category-trends","category-virtual-reality-worlds-learning","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56746"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56752,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56746\/revisions\/56752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}