From Forbes
We Need To Change How We Think About Talent
By Greg Satell
Ask anybody who manages a business and they will tell you how important it is to hire the right people.... Unfortunately, it seems that even the best firms are facing a widening skills gap and it will only get worse.... We need to rethink how we manage talent....
Academic Partnerships: Another strategy that some firms are adopting is partnering with universities to ensure that students are graduating with the skills they need. IBM, for example, has built an open source curriculum and works with over 1000 universities.
Educators themselves also realize the need to form close partnerships with industry. When developing the curriculum for UC Berkeley’s new Master’s in Data Science program, the school’s dean, AnnaLee Saxenian created an advisory board made up of top executives to ensure that graduates will gain the skills they need to compete.
Further, because the program is not designed for technology companies, but to help traditional industries build up big data expertise, she designed the curriculum to work online. That way, as students are developing new skills, they stay in touch with the everyday problems that they are learning how to solve....