Right Click (eBook)

Cognize. Code. Create #NextLevel Unicorns.

Khumbulani Ndlovu (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025 | 1. Auflage
421 Seiten
Publishdrive (Verlag)
978-0-00-105484-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This e-book is for the #FutureBuilders, the Innovators, the #21CThinkers and AI -driven Leaders cooped up somewhere and trying to figure out what next. It is for the ones who show up and those who keep clicking again and again, with the intent of moving from 0 to 1.

It is about overcoming. powering past inner demons, self - limitations and finding your curiosity. And building expertise - #knowledge, #skills and #resilience and becoming #Scary good in whatever you do!

Referencing Strive Masiyiwa's #3Ps Starting Building Formula and Drucker's Profit or Scale Formula, it delves into the modern enterprise building world, seeking to inspire the Next Generation of incorruptible #iPreneurs to build investor grade and future ready enterprises of the AI-era, and set the World onto and into the era of abundance, possibility and achievement like never before. Because when all is said and done - its only entrepreneurs who can build fires that can keep the world warm!

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MODULE 2 – AGE OF MAN + MACHINES || Business –Building and the future of work

 

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IR and 5IR – the virtual and neural revolutions will deepen digitisation, which all began in the 3rd Industrial Revolution. Life in the unfolding digital era, fast paced and dramatic is full of possibilities, though somewhat seemingly complex and uncertain. Automation, digitisation and AI will create intelligent machines, which will wipe out repetitive and routine jobs like till operation, waiting tables and alter the way some tasks in white-collar jobs are done e.g. Legal research in law and x-ray imaging in medicine.42

AI will raise the premium placed on Digital skills, while reducing demand for low and medium skilled workers. The new technologies will also create new jobs, which will mostly be digitally oriented, more engaging and more fulfilling!

These jobs of the future will include – App developer, driverless car engineer, cloud computer specialist, social media manager, Sustainability manager, YouTube Content creator, Technology Manager, Digital Marketer, Blockchain expert, Customer Success Manager, Chief Trust and Privacy Officers, Data Broker, to mention a few.

Chip Labour - Image courtesy of Reuters

Activity 3

What should young people do to be able to work alongside intelligent machines? How do they acquire the skills necessary to survive and thrive in the 4th Industrial Revolution.

what are the skills that young people will need to survive and thrive in the digital age?

The digital age is affecting the way we work and live. The new digital economy has been variously called the knowledge, social, broadband and gig economy. Education and cross-functional skills will be critical for young people to navigate this world of #software everything.

Social economy – the digital economy is no longer about cognitive intelligence only, but more about collaboration, relationships and networking. The emphasis is on soft skills - social or non- cognitive skills.

These include critical and independent thinking, creativity, curiosity, communication and collaboration; the innately human skills that computers will find hard to master.43

Broadband economy – digital/internet-based economy requiring basic digital literacy/digital skill and advanced skills like proficiency in AI machine learning and cloud computing.

Gig economy/Open talent economy – the labour market comprising of freelance, short-term and on-demand work.44 The global economy is fast being gigerised - giving rise to a network of people who make a living without any formal employment contracts.45 Giggers are independent self-proprietors selling their labour and expertise. Once off educational qualifications and college degrees will not be enough to thrive in the new economy.

Young people will switch careers up to 5-7 times or more in their working lives.46 They need to commit to lifelong learning; continuously upskill and learn and review their skills and take charge and craft their careers, if they are to get ahead and thrive in the 4th Industrial Revolution. In the digital age, national economic development and individual progress will now depend more on intellectual resources and education led growth (knowledge, skills, expertise and human capital) and innovations from natural resources to grow and generate exports.

Africa must now multitask – seek to industrialise and build a manufacturing base. It must nurture digital entrepreneurs who will create tech solutions to everyday problems and building world class digital companies to drive African brands and share our genius with the world!47

The Digital economy is about internet-based production of goods and provision of services. Platform enterprises and AI Native Startups now dominate the world economy. Companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon are now household names and are bigger than some nation states!

Hard skills– Job competencies/paper qualifications that are acquirable through academic and professional education. The traditional industrial sector was labour intensive.

The modern broadband economy is less capital but tech intensive. Skilled people are greatly in demand to manage the innovations and complex operations of modern-day enterprises Strive Masiyiwa indicates that getting a MBA is now imperative for today’s graduate. Much needed skills include -

Basic skills – numeracy and literacy. These are the basic skills of reading, writing and arithmetic (3Rs). These basic skills will remain critical in the 4IR World because they act as a foundation to the acquisition of high order skills later in life and platform for lifelong learning.48

The foundational skills are also important in themselves. Being comfortable with numbers, functional literacy, the ability to communicate effectively and to comprehend and process information enable one to fit in and function in the digital and fast paced 4IR world. The early and foundational years, kindergarten and quality early development and learning in the first thousand days of a child’s life remains vitally important for young people’s education and skills building, as it builds stronger brains49. If the window is missed, building skills becomes harder later in life.50

Ann Walton writing in the Mail & Guardian of South Africa laments that children from third world countries world over are not brought up in the culture of reading because of the lack of reading materials at home.51 Since, children are not exposed to books at home, they remain uninterested and illiterate even as they are taught at school. And without literacy, children are alienated from everything outside of their own small world. (the UN has been dubbed this, the #learningpoverty phenomenon).

specialised skills

While the importance of socio-emotional skills will continue to grow in the digital age, young people will still require specialised and general skills to excel in their careers and in business. Specialised or vocational education involves training for a specific career. General tertiary programmes like an economics degree are concerned with equipping students with high order skills that determine the recipient’s overall learning readiness and trainability.52 Students attend institutions of higher learning to build their expertise, research skills and experience in a particular field of study. This is usually the highest and last stage of learning before they transition to adult life and the world of work.

Strive Masiyiwa emphasises that education up to MBA level is a must for this generation. Africa and the digital world need more graduates who understand how to handle the changes that technology is bringing to the world.

Students in different disciplines must learn about how different technologies would affect businesses, the way we live and work with a view to understand and use them to create sustainable tech solutions to everyday problems and taking their ideas to the market.

This means that young people must not just study to get a paper credential or dream only of a high paying job. They must be entrepreneurially minded – they must learn to advance their own understanding in multiple disciplines and to add to their own knowledge.

They must seek to apply what they have learnt in real life situations to solve real world problems. Education in the 21st Century is no longer about producing graduates but preparing students to be lifelong learners and to be future ready to thrive in an uncertain and fast paced world, business building and investing skills, among other things.

business and financial skills – encompasses business skills, the knowledge of new pathways of creating prosperity; the knowledge of the world of money and how to make their money work for you. Concepts and skills to be mastered include-

Accounting - Preparing a financial ledger.

Economics – Concept of money; investing; Parity and inflation

Business skills -Writing a business plan; creating a startup; digital marketing.

Corporate, Tax and Intellectual Property Law (company Registration and compliance).53 -Young people must be taught true entrepreneurship.54 They must be equipped with the growth and entrepreneurial mindset, digital business building skills and real-world experience. The high order skills will enable to expand their worldview, see the possibilities around them, participate and help build Africa’s century and a better post-pandemic digital world.

21C skills and competencies for a 4IR, flat #PC World. - The digital world will be run by smart and intelligent machines, giving rise to autonomous services or self- serve facilities. This is the era of AI, data and Analytics. Because of the proliferation of intelligent machines, there will be less need for physical labour. Routine and repetitive jobs will be automated with the increasing deployment and employment of robots.

Since machines will have the capability to reason and think, thanks to AI. Humans must acquire high order skills or 21st Century skills to remain relevant in the digital age.

#21C skills and qualities are those skills that make us uniquely humane – inter alia, empathy, creativity, compassion and the ability to consider and engage with diverse set of views.55 The 21st Century skills include...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• ISBN-10: 0-00-105484-8 / 0001054848
• ISBN-13: 978-0-00-105484-4 / 9780001054844