#ADAPT AND THRIVE MEANING DRIVERS#

These options allow full-time employees the flexibility to pursue additional learning while maintaining their full-time work and other responsibilities.ДЇurthermore, given these drastic changes in the learning landscape, digital badging gives us alternative ways to credential and validate learning. We have micro-degrees and nano-degrees in specialized areas that can allow learners to focus on specific competencies and skillsets (such as project management, change management, or marketing with social media). We now have free, open source MOOCs (massive, open, online courses) from the most prestigious universities in the world - courses anyone can complete with over 2,000-plus fellow learners. Not only has the information itself become more bite-sized and chunked for easier use, itвЂ™s also become less costly and more accessible. Individuals can steal learning moments throughout their work day (for example, using a mobile device and watching a 15-minute TedTalk during a daily commute on the train, or listening to a podcast presentation while jogging or eating lunch). Which means that learning can occur anywhere, anytime. We are no longer required to travel to a university, pay for a mandated course, and earn a costly degree. The only way to keep pace with such rapid knowledge creation is through continuously educating ourselves.ДЇortunately, continuous learning opportunities abound through formal and informal learning networks today - all of which have transformed how we learn.

Buckminster FullerвЂ™s research7 revealed that human knowledge use to double every century until the 1900вЂ™s, and now it doubles every 13 months. Continuous learning (both for organizations and individuals) must be a priority. Just as you would not expect to exercise for one month and be physically fit the rest of your life, you cannot receive a degree and expect to be educated for the rest of your life. Innovation is essential to transformation and it requires adaptation and continuous learning. Staying complacent is no longer an option. Organizations that innovate - that understand emergent technologies - are able to create and shape the lifestyle changes that such tools afford their customers. GoogleвЂ™s moonshot factory, Google X, plans to provide high speed internet access to the most remote areas around the world using a network of traveling balloons.ItвЂ™s no coincidence that Facebook invested over $2 billion to acquire Oculus Rift, a virtual reality startup hailed as the next important computing platform.ItвЂ™s no coincidence that Amazon Prime Air made its first drone delivery this year,4 just as drones and flying cars continue to advance the technological landscape.

For example, Amazon, Facebook, and Google are considered some of the most innovative organizations, particularly based on their ability to adapt and experiment with new ideas. The focus should be on the ways we adapt our lives and our behaviors based on these innovations. In a world where you can crowdfund for capital or crowdsource for expertise, we need to think beyond the technology we work with today (computers, mobile devices), to think of technologies that will support new and more integrated solutions. ItвЂ™s important to acknowledge the impact of emergent technologies on how we work, live, consume, and communicate. Yet, it failed to adapt, innovate, or learn from the market (as did its competitors). On the other hand, Blockbuster was a popular video-game and movie-rental franchise with over 60,000 employees and over 8,000 stores in 2004. For example, IBM was a computer company that reinvented itself to become one of the most successful consulting firms today.

#ADAPT AND THRIVE MEANING DRIVERS#

To survive and thrive in the future, organizations should think about transformation through the lens of:Д¬hange is a driver of transformation no matter how you define it, and the way an organization responds to such drivers will determine its viability (perhaps its very existence).

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