continuing education

As we embark on the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it is clear that technology will play a central role in nearly all aspects of our lives. Research by the World Economic Forum estimates that 65% of children entering primary school will find themselves in occupations that today do not exist [1]. Addi…

Digitization is changing every part of today’s enterprise. To take advantage of new business opportunities, organizations are moving quickly to design and deploy new technologies like cloud, mobility, analytics, the IoT and next-generation security. The challenge is finding the workforce skilled in…

When it comes to learning, particularly at the organizational level, one of the major problems we run into is this sort of “evolve or die” mentality. We live in a world that seems almost predisposed to tell us where we are weak. When you ask most people to point out their weaknesses, the answer come…

Traditional IT jobs are morphing, requiring new abilities. Not only that, but technologies are moving faster than the expertise needed to grapple with them. Without a rich talent pool armed with the latest IT skills, organizations cannot fully realize the business outcomes, productivity gains and ef…

To explore and refine pedagogical models for providing lifelong learning opportunities to alumni around the world, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management was in search of an effective way to deliver education and leverage technology. Their solution? Cisco TelePresence. Rather than pr…