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Degreed Experiments with Emerging Technologies

Degreed

So, for the past year, my mind has been racing thinking about the impact of all these emerging technologies for L&D. This will be a blog series (and hopefully a two-way conversation) geared toward exploring the suitability of emerging technologies for the challenges in L&D. But I do care a lot about how we learn at work.

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What Is a Skills Taxonomy? And Why Is Your Competency Model Obsolete?

Degreed

A skills taxonomy can help you make sense of what your people can offer as you work toward achieving business goals. A skills taxonomy is: A hierarchical system of classification that can categorize and organize skills in groups or “skill clusters.” They’re dynamic and constantly updated as new skills emerge and others fade.

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What are the benefits of a skills ontology?

Learning Pool

scanning relevant sources across the globe, including job adverts and a variety of publicly available skills and job taxonomies. They save on recruitment costs, improve organizational morale and productivity, and reduce the time and cost of training and retraining. Using a skills ontology for staff engagement and retention.

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Finding your superpower: What is a skills ontology?

Learning Pool

In contrast to a taxonomy or framework, which only forms a hierarchical subdivision of defined terms, an ontology represents a network of information with logical relationships. Skills taxonomies have always failed here, their rigid structures mean that they can’t recognize and. compare skills that are not part of the taxonomy.

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Building Your Upskilling Strategy: Data vs. People

Degreed

This approach starts with your company’s business plan disaggregated into the top skills needed to support it, resulting in an organization-wide taxonomy for future skills. Those skills were then matched to qualified workers, and a workforce mobility solution emerged. As new data emerges, it’s easy to adjust skills and plans as needed.

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PEST to PESTLE

Training Industry

PEST analysis, introduced nearly 50 years ago by Harvard Business School professor Francis Aguilar (with the acronym ESTP), has served as a strong, practical taxonomy for analyzing the macro-environmental factors affecting business.1 Status of the labor market including unemployment rates, and labor costs are economic factors to consider.

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How can L&D give any results? 

Creativ Technologies

So, apart from the costs incurred in developing such courses, the employee downtime proves to be a waste of time too when they have not changed their work performance. When anything is not apt, it leads to so many unjustified extra costs for the organization. What are the components of lean learning?