{"id":19183,"date":"2020-01-05T00:28:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T00:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/?p=19183"},"modified":"2020-01-06T03:31:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T03:31:29","slug":"upskill-the-upskillers-the-must-have-new-years-resolution-for-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/upskill-the-upskillers-the-must-have-new-years-resolution-for-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Upskill the upskillers: The must-have New Year’s resolution for businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nadia Naffi<\/a>, Universit\u00e9 Laval<\/a><\/em>; Ann-Louise Davidson<\/a>, Concordia University<\/a><\/em>, and Houda Jawhar<\/a>, Concordia University<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Today, the survival of many organizations<\/a> depends on their plans to leverage cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to transform their workplaces into augmented environments<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A recent IBM study<\/a> found that, as a result of AI and intelligent automation, 120 million workers will need to develop new skills or even be transitioned out of companies to different jobs<\/a> in the next three years. Half of the surveyed organizations had done little to rethink their training strategies to respond to this urgency.<\/p>\n

For that digital transformation to happen, organizations must avoid the costly \u201cbuy, not build\u201d talent strategy<\/a> that involves opting for expensive new hires instead of retraining their current employees.<\/p>\n

Instead, as 2020 kicks off, they need to launch a reskilling revolution<\/a> that places their employees at the centre of the digital transformation, focuses on them as human beings with unique capabilities and helps them to collaborate with new technologies<\/a>.<\/p>\n