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1 Introduction and Overview
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... That study observed that technological developments, reengineered operations, and economic forces are transforming the way products and services are conceived, designed, made, distributed, and supported, a transformation that is having profound effects on the world of work. Jobs consisting of repetitive tasks are being disrupted by automation or offshored to lower-cost producers.
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... Furthermore, value can migrate away from the United States unless US workers can compete with the rest of the world in creating value, said Donofrio. "Like capital in a free market society, value goes to the place where it is most efficiently deployed." The continually changing demands of the workplace have created an imperative for workers to be adaptable, Donofrio observed.
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... "It's a terrible idea that people who graduate with a high school degree or a two-year associate's degree are not skilled enough to do complex data analytics or [work with] big data." People erect barriers to letting them do such tasks, just as countries try to build barriers to protect capital.
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... "If we're not enabling people to connect, integrate, and create further value, it will not deliver on its promise." New business opportunities are fundamentally changing the marketplace, the world of work, and every aspect of business operations. "The future belongs to those companies and those people who learn how to take data and convert it to knowledge and information that they can act on." She quoted a statement attributed to Charles Darwin: "It's not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." The workshop was designed to tap into the "power of we," she said, by bringing together people from different sectors, including business, education, and government, to share best practices, learn from each other, identify unmet needs, and articulate how to close those gaps.
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