I’ve written a number of times about the need to significantly expand our efforts to educate the workforce if we’re to take advantage of the latest technologies entering the market. Consulting firm Accenture has been fervent cheerleaders of this, and have banged the drum again in a recently published paper.
They argue that unless we take a radically new approach to learning, the skills gap will result in as much as $11.5 trillion in GDP growth being lost over the next ten years.
