Future of Business: IoT and The Next Generation Workforce

01/14/16 • 57 min

Future of Business with Game Changers, Presented by SAP

The buzz: One big happy family. Today’s workforce has four generations side-by-side for the first time ever. While the Greatest Generation and Baby Boomers are still mostly in control, Gen X’ers and Millennials influence the day-to-day. But when you add the status-quo-disrupting Internet of Things, does it create an IoT Generation workforce gap separating these cohorts from the fifth wave of newbies expecting a fully-connected work day? The experts speak. Sherryanne Meyer, ASUG: “Dorothy: We’re not in Kansas anymore!” [Wizard of Oz). Mal Poulin, ANCILE: “The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time” (Dante). Sharon Cook, hyperCision: “I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social” (Angela Ahrendts). David Dreyer, SAP: “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” (Ralph Waldo Emerson). Join us for Future of Business: IoT & The Next Generation Workforce.

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