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Ride Technology Wave for Career Success

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”   -  R. Buckminster Fuller The technology revolution sweeping across the globe at a great speed is also termed as a 4 th  Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0 (Short form I4.0). This is indeed transforming manufacturing and production processes, empowering better and faster decision making and global reach on 24/7 basis for marketing and sales. Countries like South Korea, Singapore, Germany, Japan, and the USA have taken a great leap forward and introduced state-of-the-art technology. India, though 6 th  largest manufacturing country, it lags behind in introducing Robotics and AI in its industries.  However, during 2017-2018, India had taken a big leap forward to maximize use of technology in manufacturing and ensure that the manufacturing sector contributes 25% of Indian GDP by 2022.   Some people term...

Career Challenges During Global Uncertainty

  1.     Introduction. Today, we are living in the 21st century with global uncertainty and fast-developing Technologies like AI, Machine Learning (ML), Virtual Reality (VR), Cloud Computing, Robotics, Drones, Surveillance, and Guided Systems. Using these advancements, developed and developing nations are rapidly becoming Digital economies and Knowledge societies. There is also ever-growing mistrust within and outside the countries, chaos, and confusion in national policies. There are many cases of youth unrest from within/supported by foreign adversaries. In addition, global warming continues causing calamities like unprecedented rains, floods, landslides, tsunamis, and hurricanes. There is also an ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, Israel and Hamas /Palestine in Gaza. There is a trade war and visa restriction among certain countries, impacting global job opportunities and exports.  By December 2025, the USA  has  stopped issuing entry...

Knowledge Society leads to Knowledge Economy

  Knowledge Society leads to Knowledge Economy Due to rapid #advancements in various #technologies, #globalization and efficient #communication #networks during 21st century, the concept of  # knowledge  #Society has picked up fresh momentum. Knowledge Society (KS) lays more emphasis on the #quality #education, applied #research, #innovations and maximum use of #ICT ( Information, Communication and Technology). KS relies on producing, #acquiring, #processing, and #distributing knowledge/information as primary resource for #economic growth. KS uses knowledge of its workforce (#Intellectual # Capital) as an engine for growth.  This is a significant departure from traditional concept of economic growth based mainly on #natural resources,# physical material, and labor-intensive industries. In KS, both Information and Knowledge are considered #critical resources, where knowledge workforce and organizations work cohesively to #acquire, #create, #maintain and #share know...